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How to Get a Visura Camerale (Italian Company Report) in Rome

A visura camerale costs €5.50 and arrives in minutes. Here's where to get the official version, what it contains, and how to avoid third-party sites charging you triple the price.

12 May 2026·

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In a nutshell

A visura camerale (Italy's official company extract from the business registry) is the document that tells you everything about an Italian company: who runs it, where it's based, what it does, its share capital, partners, and the full history of any changes. It's public — anyone can request one — and costs around €5 on the official portal. Don't confuse it with the certificato camerale (the certified company certificate, which carries legal weight and costs more).

At a glance


Cost	€5.50 (current-status report online with SPID) — €7.00 (historical report online) — €7.00 (current-status report at the counter)
Timeline	Instant online — 10–30 minutes at the counter
Where in Rome	registroimprese.it (recommended) or Camera di Commercio, Via dell'Appennino 40
What you need	SPID (Italy's digital identity for accessing online public services), CIE (Italian electronic ID card), or CNS to log in online — credit card to pay

What's inside a visura camerale

When you open a visura camerale you get a snapshot of all the official data on file for that company at the moment of your request.

The registration section gives you the company name, legal form (SRL, SPA, sole trader, etc.), Codice Fiscale (Italian tax ID), Partita IVA (Italian VAT number — required to invoice as a self-employed worker or legal entity), the REA number with its province code (for Rome-registered companies it looks like "RM-XXXXXXX"), the registered address, any secondary offices, and the company's PEC (certified email — legally valid in Italy).

The activity section shows the ATECO codes that describe the company's line of business, the full corporate purpose, and the date trading began. If the company is in liquidation, bankrupt, or in a concordato preventivo (restructuring arrangement under court supervision), that status appears clearly here.

The report also tells you who runs the company: directors, statutory auditors, external auditors, attorneys-in-fact — along with their powers and mandate expiry dates. For SRL companies, shareholders are sometimes listed here too.

If you choose the historical report (visura storica), you also get the full change log: old company names, previous addresses, past directors, capital changes. That version costs €7.00 online instead of €5.50.

How to get one online in a few minutes

The fastest and cheapest route is the official portal registroimprese.it, run by InfoCamere on behalf of Italy's Chambers of Commerce network.

Go to the site and use the search bar. You can look up a company by name, Codice Fiscale, Partita IVA, or REA number (e.g. "RM-1234567"). The system returns a list of matching companies. Select the right one, then choose the document type: current-status report, historical report, financial statements, or other extracts.

To purchase you need to log in with SPID, CIE, or CNS. Payment is by credit card, or via a prepaid Telemaco wallet if you're a professional who submits many requests. The document comes as a digitally signed PDF — it counts as a certified copy of the official registry record. You can download it immediately and also receive it by email.

If you only want to check basic details without buying anything, the portal offers a free, no-login view with a limited set of fields.

Getting it in person at the Rome CCIAA

If you prefer a paper copy or don't have SPID, you can walk in to the Camera di Commercio di Roma (CCIAA — the Rome Chamber of Commerce). The main offices are:

Main office: Via dell'Appennino 40, 00198 Roma (Sant'Agnese area)
City-centre counter: Via de' Burrò 147 (Pantheon area)
EUR counter: Viale dell'Oceano Pacifico 153

Typical opening hours are Monday–Friday 8:30–12:30, with some services available Thursday afternoon 14:00–16:30. Always verify current hours at www.rm.camcom.it before you go. At the counter, the current-status report costs €7.00 and the historical one costs €8.50. You can pay by POS terminal or pagoPA.

National freephone: 800 04 12 49 (free from Italian landlines).

When you actually need one

If you're a business owner, you'll need a visura camerale to open a corporate bank account, bid on public tenders, file applications at the SUAP (the one-stop shop for business licences at the Comune), handle planning permits, or simply verify that your own public data on file is correct.

If you're about to do business with another company, a visura lets you confirm it exists, that it isn't in liquidation or bankrupt, who has signing authority, and what its official PEC address is. It's a basic due-diligence tool: if a company doesn't appear in the Registro Imprese, it is not a properly registered business.

Accountants, lawyers, and notaries use it daily for client work. Banks routinely request one when opening business accounts or assessing credit applications.

Mistakes to avoid

Using private reseller sites. Sites like visurenet, visure.it, and similar services resell the exact same visure from registroimprese.it at prices ranging from €10 to €25. They add nothing. Save your money and go straight to the official portal.
Mixing up a visura and a certificato. The visura camerale is an informational extract — extremely useful for practical checks, but it does not carry legal weight for official purposes such as public-procurement bids. For those you need the certificato camerale (€10–15), which bears an authenticated signature. For use abroad you may also need an apostille.
Getting the REA number wrong. The REA number always includes the province code. For Rome-registered companies it's "RM-XXXXXXX". For companies from other cities use "MI-" for Milan, "NA-" for Naples, and so on. The Registro Imprese covers the whole of Italy: you can pull reports for any Italian company from the same portal.

Special cases

If the company you're looking for has closed or been struck off the register, the visura is still available and shows its historical data up to the deregistration date — useful for disputes or verifying past dealings.

If the company is based in another Italian city, nothing changes on your end: registroimprese.it is a single national database covering all Italian companies.

For use in countries that have signed the 1961 Hague Convention, the document must carry an apostille, which you request from the Procura della Repubblica (public prosecutor's office) in Rome or from the Prefettura (regional state-government office representing the central state). For non-Hague countries, consular legalisation is required instead.

The PDF you download from registroimprese.it carries a digital signature. You can verify its authenticity with software such as Dike or Aruba Sign.

Official sources

Legal references: Codice Civile artt. 2188–2202, DPR 581/1995, L. 580/1993, D.Lgs. 219/2016, L. 340/2000.

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