The General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region: what differs in the path?
The path before the General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region is read from the character of that Directorate and from the official procedures it publishes, not from a retelling of a dealing in a particular city. The frame is on company registration. If the question is about dealing in Erbil in particular — and about coverage from Baghdad, with no branch and no city page — that is on the Erbil page.
The Law Office of Ali Barakat follows the matter from Baghdad, al-Yarmouk.
What is the character of the Directorate in this path?
The General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region is the body to which, in the Region, an application to form a company, or connected registration steps that fall within its work, is submitted. It is named by its name in every reference, and is not replaced by a general description. What it requires by way of papers, forms or time limits, and what it announces as an electronic or paper path, is read from its official publications in the file.
The general frame for the types of company, the contract and the certificate of incorporation remains to be read from Companies Law No. 21 of 1997, as amended, where that applies, unless another official text takes the place of a particular rule in the matter placed before the Directorate. The clearest practical difference is the body approached in the Region, not the invention of a type of company the Law does not know.
What is not to be confused with this path?
Opening a branch of a company formed outside Iraq is a separate path, even if it is pursued in the Region, on the branch page. Filing a trademark in the Region is a path of the trademarks register, on its page, and does not stand in for registration of a company before the General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region. An investment licence in the Region is sought from the Investment Board of the Region, under Investment Law No. 13 of 2006, as amended, on the investment-licence page, and that Board is not the Directorate.
Entry in the commercial register at a chamber of commerce is a third path, on its page. Federal electronic registration before the Registrar, where that route is chosen, is on its page, and is not assumed to be the Directorate's path unless the Directorate itself announces that in an official publication.
The language of papers and forms, if the General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region requires a particular language in an official publication, is read from that publication. If the company's activity later involves a filing before the Companies Registration Department and the Registrar of Companies outside the Region, each path remains to be read before its own body, without merging the two bodies into one. An objection to a decision of the Directorate is read from its official instrument in the file, not from the path in article 24 before the Minister of Trade, unless that text expressly refers this objection to that path.
The office follows the reading from Baghdad, al-Yarmouk.
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Frequently asked questions
How does this page differ from the page on registering a company in Erbil?
The Erbil page deals with a dealing in that city and with coverage from Baghdad, with no branch. This page is about the body — the General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region — and what may differ in the path before it.
Does the office have a branch at the Directorate in the Region?
No. The office is in Baghdad, al-Yarmouk, and follows the matter from there, with no branch in the Region.
Is an investment licence or the filing of a trademark part of the Directorate's work?
An investment licence is sought from the Investment Board of the Region under the Investment Law, and filing a trademark is a path of the trademarks register. Each of them is separate from registration of a company before the General Directorate for Companies Registration in the Kurdistan Region.
Is an objection to a decision of the General Directorate automatically made before the Minister of Trade under article 24?
An objection to a decision of the Directorate is read from its official instrument in the file. The path in article 24 before the Minister of Trade is not carried over to that objection unless that text is expressly referred to in the instrument that applies.
Related topics and articles
- 01Registering a company in Erbil before the registration body in the RegionRegistering a company when dealing in Erbil is before the Region’s companies directorate, from the Baghdad office, with no branch.
- 02Does filing a mark in the Kurdistan Region differ from the federal path?Filing a mark in the Kurdistan Region compared with the federal path, with no regional law number cited without a published official instrument.
- 03Obligations that recur after a company is recordedFinal accounts, the audit, the general-assembly meeting and copies sent to the Registrar, distinct from post-incorporation steps and from branch duties.
- 04The address of a company or branch, a lease and a title deedThe company's address in its contract, before the Registrar and in the commercial register; a lease or deed may evidence it. Not a real-estate page.
- 05Registering a company in Basra: which department is approached, and what differs from Baghdad?Registering a company when dealing in Basra under the federal Companies Law, followed from Baghdad.