Public Notice to Private Traders that will be Struck off the Trade Register

The National Board of Patents and Registration (NBPR) will remove private traders from the Trade Register. This concerns private traders that have been entered in the Register before 1994 but whose personal details under Section 3 a of the Trade Register Act have not been registered. The striking-off procedure is based on the provision on entry into force of the Act of 16 March 2001 on the Amendment of the Trade Register Act (245/2001).

The procedure only concerns private traders and not, for example, limited companies, general partnerships and limited partnerships.

In April 2004, we sent an enquiry to approximately 11,000 private traders that are subject to our striking-off procedure to invite them to report their personal details. We have now received personal details from around 1.500 private traders.

A public notice to approximately 9.500 private traders that still are subject to our striking-off procedure (please see the list below) was published on 6 September 2004 in Trade Register Gazette no 36A. In the notice, NBPR invites the private traders to report their personal details in writing to the Trade Register not later than on 7 December 2004. If private traders do not report themselves before the appointed date, they will be removed from the Register in December 2004.

The Trade Register Gazette no 36A (published on 6 September 2004) is available at NBPR’s PatRek Client Service at the address Arkadiankatu 6 A, 00100 Helsinki. The Gazette has also been sent to Employment and Economic Development Centres (T&E Centres), Local Register Offices ("maistraatti") and Enterprice Agencies.

Personal details under Section 3 a of the Trade Register Act:

• full name
• personal identity code (or date of birth if the person does not have a Finnish personal identity code)
• address
• citizenship

You can report the personal details in two ways:

• By writing to National Board of Patents and Registration, Trade Register, P.O. Box 1150, FI-00101 Helsinki, or by faxing to +358 (0)9 6939 5533. Please write the business name, Trade Register Number or Business ID and the name, telephone number or other contact detail of the person reporting the details and then sign your notification.
• By using form Y6 provided by the Business Information System (click here for the forms). On the form, you can at the same time also report other amendments to your Register entries. Please note that notifications concerning new auxiliary business names are subject to a charge.

Unified Business Activities

If a natural person is entered as a trader in the Register entries of more than one private trader, the business activities are brought together to a single unit, which is given a Business Identity Code. The lines of business are then combined and business names of the unified business activities are transferred to be auxiliary business names for the new unit.

Later business activities are unified with business activities that were registered earliest, if the trader does not inform the Trade Register to do otherwise. You can let us know how to unify your business activities when you report your personal details to us.

For further details, please contact: Ulpu Malinen +358 (0)9 6939 5629 Marjut Pohjolainen +358 (0)9 6939 5313 Kirsi Leotta +358 (0)9 6939 5240 Tiina Mensonen +358 (0)9 6939 5254