Definition: Date of creation [of legal unit]

Category: International guidelines on statistical business registers

Date of incorporation for legal persons or date of official recognition as an economic operator for natural persons - The "date of official recognition" should be the date on which an identification number is given, or the date on which the legal existence was approved, be it a company/trade register number, a VAT number or other. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-32-10-216-EN-C-EN.pdf
Source:
Eurostat, "Business registers. Recommendations manual", Methodologies and Working Papers, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2010
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