When will my application be registered?
Enter a filing date or paste an application number. The estimate treats the registry as a queue and follows its current pace.
If the registry keeps its current pace and you file today (5 October 2026): registration is expected around 12 December 2026 (between 25 November 2026 and 29 December 2026). If the delay stopped rising: as early as 7 November 2026.Valid for forms A4, A19, B7 and G1. Annual accounts (G2) and corrections (J1) follow other rules. Planning estimate, not a deadline and not a promise.
Latest figures by form
Applications registered between 21 Sept and 4 Oct 2026 (last 14 days).
| Form | Median (days) | Range (days) | Applications (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
A4Limited liability company (OOD / EOOD) Daily Sample of about 80 companies, spread over the whole day | 32.2 | 27.4 – 35.3 | 55 |
A19Variable-capital company (DPK / EDPK) Every such company registered each day | 32.3 | 29 – 33.5 | 14 |
B7Beneficial owners Every variable-capital company, plus the daily sample of limited-liability companies | 31.3 | 29.1 – 33.8 | 4 Indicative |
G1Announcement of acts Sample plus variable-capital companies | 31.3 | 27.4 – 36 | 14 |
The Register works through applications mostly in order of arrival, so these forms follow the same Queue and their delays are close (medians within 1 day of each other).
How the delay has changed
Median of each 7-day period. The shaded band runs from the shortest to the longest delay.
Why only 7 days? The delay is rising. A longer period would mix in older, faster cases and understate what applications wait today. The curve below shows the earlier weeks.
Context. Since Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026, Bulgarian companies must file their articles of association with share capital in euros at the Commercial Register, which can raise the number of applications to process. On 2 September 2026, the Bulgarian Parliament voted to extend this deadline to 36 months after 1 January 2026. We cannot measure the effect of this on processing times.
Show the data as a table
| 7 days ending | n | Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | 48 | 33 | 32 – 36 |
| 27 Sept 2026 | 39 | 29.5 | 27.4 – 32 |
| 20 Sept 2026 | 52 | 26 | 25.1 – 29 |
| 13 Sept 2026 | 43 | 23.1 | 22 – 25 |
| 6 Sept 2026 | 55 | 19.9 | 19.1 – 22.6 |
Using these figures
These figures describe applications that have already been registered. An application filed today joins the end of the queue. While the delay keeps rising, it is likely to wait longer than the figure above.
Treat the median as a planning indication, for example to allow for the time before an entry is registered and published. It is not a deadline and not a promise from the Registry Agency or from us.
Before you rely on these figures
- Only registered applications are counted. Applications still waiting are not included, so real waiting times are at least as long as shown.
- Small groups are less reliable. Figures based on fewer than 10 applications are marked Indicative, and below 3 they are not shown.
- Delays change. This page describes the recent past, based on data since 29 Aug 2026.
- Independent observation. Published by Fenchell from public data. It is not an official statistic, it is not issued by or affiliated with the Registry Agency, and it is not legal advice.
How we measure and our sources
Source
Public information from the Registry Agency's portal (portal.registryagency.bg): the same data any visitor can see. The portal's own pages load it from a public data service, and we read that same service. No login, no private data.
Period
The headline figure covers applications registered during the last 7 days (rolling, refreshed every morning). The table covers 14 days and the curve 5 weeks, so you can see the trend.
How we measure
Read the public list of entries
Every morning we read, on the Registry Agency's public portal, the list of companies for which an entry was made the previous day (the register of entries that any visitor can consult).
Look up each application
For each company concerned we read the history of its applications shown by the portal: the form, the date it was filed electronically and the date it was entered in the Register.
Compute the delay
The Delay is the number of calendar days between those two dates. Only applications that have been entered in the Register are counted.
Summarise
We publish the Median and the Range over rolling 7-day and 14-day periods, always with the number of applications (n) behind each figure.
Publish only what is reliable
The page is refreshed every day. Nothing is shown for a day that could not be read completely, and figures based on too few applications are marked or hidden.
What is covered
Limited-liability companies (forms A4, B7 and G1). Each day we draw about 80 companies at random across the whole day: a Sample, not a full count.
Variable-capital companies (forms A19, B7 and G1). We look at every such company registered that day. B7 is rare among limited-liability companies, so most B7 figures still come from variable-capital companies.
Other forms, such as annual accounts (G2) or corrections of irregularities (J1), follow different priority rules and have too few observations to be published.
Respect for the portal and for privacy
We only use information that the portal shows to any visitor. We query it gently, a few requests per minute, and identify ourselves with a contact address. We collect no personal data and publish no company names.
Terms used on this page
- Median
- The middle value: if you sort all delays from shortest to longest, half are below it and half above. Unlike an average, a few unusually fast or slow cases do not distort it.
- Range
- The shortest and the longest delay observed in the period.
- n (number of applications)
- How many applications a figure is based on. The fewer there are, the less reliable the figure.
- Delay
- Time between the electronic filing of an application and its entry in the Commercial Register, counted in calendar days.
- Filing date
- The date and time the portal shows for the electronic submission of an application. The Register works through applications mainly in the order of their incoming number, which follows this date.
- Queue
- The Register works through applications mostly in order of arrival. Some forms are handled differently, for example annual accounts (G2) wait at the end and corrections of irregularities (J1) are handled first.
- Sample
- We do not read every limited-liability company. Each day we draw about 80 of them at random across the whole day, which is enough to measure the delay but is not a full count.
- Indicative
- Based on fewer than 10 applications. Treat it as a rough guide only.
Published by Fenchell Capital OOD, a Bulgarian firm based in Plovdiv since 2018 (EIK 207945095), which forms and supports Bulgarian companies.
Questions or corrections: contact@fenchell-team.com · Source: public portal of the Registry Agency · Download the data (JSON)
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