company type property

[giorgialodi]

is the company type property the legal form of the legal entity? In the eprocurement ontology we call it legalFormType and it seems to me clearer

[aidig]

Might rov:orgType from the Registered Organization Vocabulary be useful here? It also mentions that the set of recognised company types depend on the jurisdiction and legalisation of the relevant country.

Organization Type

Property | Domain | Range -- | -- | -- rov:orgType _(rdfs:subPropertyOf org:classification)_ | org:Organization | skos:Concept

This property records the type of company. Familiar types are SA, PLC, LLC, GmbH etc. At the time of publication, there is no agreed set of company types that crosses borders. The term 'SA' is used in Poland and France for example although they mean slightly different things. The UK's LLP and Greece's EPE provide further example of close, but not exact, matches.

That said, each jurisdiction will have a limited set of recognized company types and these should be expressed in a consistent manner in a SKOS Concept Scheme.

Also, regarding differing type sets for different countries see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legal_entity_types_by_country https://iate.europa.eu/entry/slideshow/1621424608507/3564078/en-en-la-mul

[dimi-schepers]

During the Core Vocs webinar dd. 2021-04-23, an agreement was reached to name the property "legalFormType".

Regarding the codelist, it was decided to leave it open for the Member States to choose an applicable list. Nevertheless, some suggestions can be added to the usage note (also see the comment here above), e.g.

• ISO 20275, as stable IRIs will be created for the types identified there in XLSs;
• an EU Directive that lists different legal forms in the EU in all the EU languages.

[EmidioStani]

Resolved, eventual discussion on the legal entity definition can continue on GitHub