On February 3, 2026, the National Council of the Slovak Republic (parliament) approved Act No. 29/2026 Coll. on Commercial Register, which repeals the current Act No. 530/2003 Coll. on Commercial Register and amends a number of important laws with the aim of reforming fragmented regulation and improving the transparency and efficiency of the Commercial Register.

The most significant changes include:

• permission to use registered data that are currently published online for informative purposes only (in the form of extracts from the Commercial Register), as well as documents filed with the Collection of Documents, also for legal purposes;

• the extension of permissible registrations in the Commercial Register by a notary public acting as a registrar; notaries public will now be authorized to perform initial registrations and register changes to data entered in the Commercial Register for all types of commercial companies; however, registrations resulting from transformations or cross-border transformations, and cross-border changes of legal form will remain within the jurisdiction of the registry courts;

• in addition to the petitioner acting personally in the registration proceedings, the petitioner may now authorize only their employee, an attorney-at-law, or a notary public to represent them in the proceedings;

•  certain types of registered personal data will no longer be publicly accessible: an individual’s residential address will not be published online (instead, the date of birth will be published), and the birth number (or other identifier of a foreign natural person) will not be provided even in extracts from the Commercial Register;

• the possibility of reserving a business name for a period of 60 days for a fee of EUR 50, and the related establishment of the Register of Reserved Business Names maintained by the District Court of Žilina;

• an increase in administrative fines imposed on members of the statutory bodies of registered entities for failure to comply with their obligations under the Commercial Register Act, from EUR 3,310 to EUR 4,000, which may be imposed repeatedly;

• the requirement that certain types of corporate documents be executed as a notarial deed or as a document authorized by an attorney-at-law (e.g., memorandum of association, founder’s deed, agreement on transfer of participation interest, certain resolutions of the General Meeting) and the related establishment of the Register of Authorizations maintained by the Slovak Bar Association;

• the removal of the ban on chaining single-member limited liability companies and of the restriction preventing a natural person from being the sole shareholder in more than three companies;

• the reduction of selected court fees for registrations in the Commercial Register (e.g., registration of a change in registered data: EUR 50 instead of EUR 66; initial registration of a joint-stock company: EUR 550 instead of EUR 750, and of other entities: EUR 220 instead of EUR 300).

The aforementioned changes will enter into effect on August 17, 2026.