Nearly 428,777 enterprises have not yet joined the National Business Register (RNE), i.e. 51.5% of the total number of enterprises subject to registration in the RNE, said DG of the National Centre for Business Register (CRNE) Mohamed Adel Chouari.

Speaking at a press conference held on Wednesday in Tunis, he added that the RNE had proposed to give a new deadline of 6 months for 2022,to allow these enterprises to regularise their situation and join the register without paying late fines.

“If this proposal is adopted by the government, a decree could be published in the coming weeks,” said the official.

Chouari recalled that until February 7, 2022, the number of enterprises registered in the RNE stands at 405,998.

The number of registered enterprises had reached 124,780 in 2021 against 131,393 in 2020, up 5.3%, he specified.

The number of enterprises having declared their registrations to the RNE had attained 3,256 in January 2022 against 3,825 enterprises during the same period in 2021.

Regarding the main projects of the RNE for 2022, Chouari mentioned the exemption of enterprises from the registration of creation contracts with the finance revenue as of January 2022, in accordance with article 42 of the 2022 finance law.

The register also aims to develop new services for economic operators, mainly financial institutions, and to ensure the remote registration of mortgage and leasing contracts.

The RNE intends to set up a digital system by 2024 that will ensure the digitisation of documents covering the 120 years of its existence (created in 1890), stressed Chouari, adding that the goal is to centralise and restore Tunisia’s legal and economic heritage.

The official recalled, on this occasion, that the CRNE had been created under Article 4 of Law No. 2018-52 of November 29, 2018, on the national business register and organised under Decree 2019-52 on the administrative and financial organisation of the national centre for the business register.

The Centre’s mission is to manage the RNE, which is “a public database for collecting data and information on enterprises and making them available to the public and State institutions.”

The RNE holds and manages registers, namely the trade register (commercial companies and traders), the register of professionals (professional companies, liberal professions), the register of associations (Tunisian, foreign or networks of associations), the register of effective beneficiaries and the register of pledges and leasing.

Source: Tap News Agency