Legal form
How a business is organised — d.o.o., a.d., cooperative and others.
The legal form determines who answers for the obligations and by what rules decisions are taken. By far the most common is the limited liability company: of roughly 133,000 registered companies, about 126,000 are a d.o.o.
The rest are much rarer: some 3,100 cooperatives, 1,300 representative offices of foreign companies, 900 branches, 700 joint-stock companies, 600 general partnerships and 540 public enterprises.
In a d.o.o. or an a.d. the members do not, as a rule, answer for the company's debts with their own property. In a general partnership liability is unlimited and joint — a material difference when checking a partner.
Where this figure comes from
From the Business Registers Agency's company register.
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