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CRO WEBSITE/DATABASE MAINTENANCE The CRO is carrying out maintenance to its website and database on Friday 13th January 2017. This will result in the CRO website and database being inaccessible from 1.30pm Friday 13th January 2017 until Monday 16th January 2017. All our online services will be unavailable at this time. The Public Office will be closed from 1.30pm on Friday 13th January 2017. Any documents due to be received on Friday 13th will be accepted as received on time if filed on Monday 16th January. We regret any inconvenience caused to the public during this essential maintenance. Thank you for your cooperation CORPORATE DONATIONS AND REGISTER OF CORPORATE DONORS The Standards in Public Office Commission (the Commission) has published guidelines for the Register of Corporate Donors The guidelines are available on the Commission web site at http://www.sipo.gov.ie/en/Reports/Register-of-Corporate-Donors/Corporate-Donor-Guidelines-2016.pdf
See Political Donations webpage. If you have any queries regarding the issue of Corporate donations or the Register of Corporate Donors please contact sipo@sipo.ie or ring 01 6395666. MANDATORY EFILING OF CERTAIN SUBMISSIONS WILL BE INTRODUCED BY THE CRO FROM 1ST JUNE 2017 SI 458 of 2016 - Companies Act 2014 (Section 897) Order 2016 has been signed into law by the Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The SI comes into effect on 1st June 2017. Mandatory electronic filing will apply to the following submissions from this date: B1 Form - Annual Return (including financial statements and electronic payment) B2 Form - Change of registered office B10 Form - Change of director and/or secretary, or in their particulars B73 Form - Nomination of a new annual return date These changes will directly affect the company of which you are a director. As every company is obliged to file a B1 every year, it is imperative that any company, whose Annual Return Date (ARD) is after the 31st May 2017, familiarises themselves with the online process ahead of their ARD. Link to CORE (Companies Online Registration Environment) https://core.cro.ie/
CRO are working on an information campaign to notify companies of the new efiling requirements. BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTER Article 30 of the 4th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive requires all EU Member States to put into national law provisions around beneficial ownership information for companies and legal entities. There are two stages to this process: 1) As of 15 November 2016 Companies and legal entities must hold information on their beneficial owner in their own companies beneficial ownership register 2) Companies and legal entities will be required to file this information with the central beneficial ownership register. The central register is in the process of being established and further information on the filing requirement will be provided in due course. See Beneficial Ownership Register Page.