Country Coverage

All 27 EU member states + Northern Ireland (XI) are supported. For many countries, vatnode enriches the VIES response with additional data from official national company registries.

EU member states supported

Countries with enriched company data (registration date, legal form, industry)

Countries where the national registry identifier is returned

Country	Validate VAT	Name	Founded	Legal form	Industry	Registry ID	Tax ID	If VIES is down
Austria API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Belgium API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Bulgaria API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Cyprus API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Czech Republic API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Germany API	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Denmark API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Estonia API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Greece API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Spain API	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Finland API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
France API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Croatia API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Hungary API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Ireland API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Italy API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Lithuania API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Luxembourg API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Latvia API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Malta API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Netherlands API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Poland API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Portugal API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Romania API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Sweden API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Slovenia API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Slovakia API	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Northern Ireland	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No

Field is returnedNot returnedIf VIES is down — vatnode keeps validating via the national registry when the EU VIES service is unavailable

Germany (DE) and Spain (ES) do not share company data via VIES — companyName and companyAddress are always null for these countries, even though validation works. Germany is restricted by national law; Spain does not publish company data through the VIES interface.
Greece: VAT numbers use the prefix EL (VIES convention) – pass EL… to /v1/vat. The ISO code GR is used only for /v1/rates. The two are not interchangeable: GR on /v1/vat returns INVALID_FORMAT, and EL on /v1/rates returns 404.
Czech Republic (CZ): registry and tax ID returned for legal entities only (8-digit VAT numbers).
Bulgaria (BG) returns the registry ID for 9-digit VAT numbers only, and Sweden (SE)for organisationsnummer only – a VAT number built from a sole trader's personal number returns neither ID.
Lithuania (LT): the VAT number is not the legal entity code, so the registry ID comes from the national register lookup rather than from the VAT number.
Northern Ireland (XI) uses the prefix XI under the Windsor Framework. These numbers are valid in VIES and treated identically to EU VAT numbers by vatnode.

Response Fields Reference

The enriched fields are part of the standard response:

companyRegistrationDate — ISO 8601 date the company was incorporated
companyForm — legal form (e.g. GmbH, AB, SAS, Oy)
industryDescription — business activity description
registryCode— the company's number in the national business register (e.g. Y-tunnus, numéro SIREN, CVR-nummer)
registryCodeName — local name of that number
taxId — the national tax number the VAT number carries (e.g. NIF, NIP, ΑΦΜ)
taxIdName — local name of that number