partner

Concept · WE BUILD Terminology · Draft

URI

https://iri.suomi.fi/terminology/webuild/partner

Terms

Definition

a person or legal [entity] that is a member of a partnership or comparable company-law entity and whose status as partner is recorded or recognised by the competent business register or company register

Note

Use partner only where the source register or legal form identifies the entity as a partner in a partnership-type entity. For companies limited by shares, the more appropriate concept is usually shareholder, member, beneficial owner, or legal representative, depending on the intended meaning.
In the EBWV context, and especially in the EU Company Certificate context, partner should be understood as a company-law role in a partnership or similar registered entity. It refers to an entity that participates in the legal structure of the company as a partner, not to a commercial counterparty, cooperation partner, customer, supplier, spouse, or informal business collaborator.

The term is relevant because the EU Company Certificate introduced by Article 16b of Directive (EU) 2017/1132, as amended by Directive (EU) 2025/25, is intended to provide standardised company-register evidence across Member States, including core company information and, for relevant entity types, information about persons or entities connected to the company’s legal structure. Directive (EU) 2025/25 also extends digital company-law disclosure to certain partnerships listed in the new Annex IIB.

Example

An EU Company Certificate for a limited partnership identifies a natural person as a limited partner and a legal entity as a general partner.

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