Duty to notify Today most businesses must be notified for entry in the Trade Register. A basic declaration shall be submitted for a new business, containing basic information on the business and the trade it carries on. A basic declaration may be submitted even by a business not obliged to do so. For example, an enterprise mortgage used as a security for a loan may only be registered on the property of a registered business enterprise.
Registration is the most efficient way of protecting the trade of a business enterprise.
The basic declaration shall be filed before commencing operations. Filing a basic declaration Notices to the Trade Register shall be filed as written out on the forms laid down by the National Board of Patents and Registration, either in Finnish or in Swedish . All forms are available in both of these languages. For each type of business there is a separate basic declaration form which must be used. The forms are available from the National Board of Patents and Registration and State Local Offices, and the most common of them also from Chambers of Commerce and Enterprise Agencies.