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Amending the trade register in Algeria: cases, documents, the one-month deadline and penalties

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Since law no. 26-12 of 8 June 2026, every trader has one month at most to initiate the amendment of their trade register extract, counted from the change itself. Once that deadline passes the penalty is no longer theoretical: a fine, a formal notice, administrative closure of the premises by the wali, then removal from the register. This guide covers the cases of amendment, the documents to provide, the costs and the procedure.

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Trade register amending entry request template

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The wording stays in French, the language this request is filed in at the counter. The text below is the text of the Word file, reproduced so you can read, copy or adapt it without downloading anything. The items in blue are the fields to replace with your own details.

DEMANDE D'INSCRIPTION MODIFICATIVE AU REGISTRE DU COMMERCE

Covering letter addressed to the Centre National du Registre du Commerce

This letter accompanies the request drawn up on the forms supplied by the CNRC, it does not replace it. The internal trade ministry sheet on amendments requires the request to be drawn up on those forms. The letter below stays in French, the language it is filed in.

How to use this template

  • Replace every field between square brackets with your own details. They are highlighted in the document.
  • Date the triggering event precisely. Article 4 bis of law no. 04-08, created by law no. 26-12 of 8 June 2026 published in Journal officiel no. 44 of 18 June 2026, opens a period of no more than one month from the date of the change to start the amendment procedures.
  • The obligation is to start the procedures, not to finish them: what counts is having filed the case.
  • It is the original trade register extract that is filed, not a copy.
  • For a legal entity, attach two copies of the amending deeds and a copy of the notice of the amendments in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales and in a national daily.
  • If the management changes, attach the criminal record extract and the birth certificate of the new managers.
  • If the registered office moves, attach the notarised lease or the title deed. For a legal entity it must be drawn up in the company's name.
  • If the activity is regulated, attach the licence or the authorisation from the competent authorities.

[NOM ET PRÉNOM OU DÉNOMINATION SOCIALE]

[FORME JURIDIQUE]

Registre du commerce numéro [NUMÉRO DU REGISTRE DU COMMERCE]

[ADRESSE DU SIÈGE OU DU LOCAL COMMERCIAL]

[COMMUNE], [WILAYA]

Téléphone : [NUMÉRO DE TÉLÉPHONE]

Courriel : [ADRESSE ÉLECTRONIQUE]

À Monsieur le Directeur du Centre National du Registre du Commerce

Antenne locale de [COMMUNE OU WILAYA DU CNRC]

[VILLE], le [DATE]

Objet : demande d'inscription modificative au registre du commerce

Monsieur le Directeur,

J'ai l'honneur de solliciter l'inscription au registre du commerce de la ou des modifications décrites ci-dessous, intervenues le [DATE DU CHANGEMENT], et concernant l'inscription immatriculée sous le numéro [NUMÉRO DU REGISTRE DU COMMERCE].

Les mentions à rectifier sur l'extrait sont les suivantes :

  1. Mention concernée : [MENTION CONCERNÉE, PAR EXEMPLE ADRESSE DU SIÈGE, ACTIVITÉ, GÉRANT, CAPITAL, DÉNOMINATION]
  2. Situation portée sur l'extrait en cours : [SITUATION ACTUELLE]
  3. Situation nouvelle à inscrire : [SITUATION NOUVELLE]
  4. Date du changement : [DATE DU CHANGEMENT]

La présente demande est déposée au titre de l'obligation d'engager les procédures de modification de l'extrait du registre du commerce, prévue par l'article 4 bis de la loi n° 04-08 du 14 août 2004, tel que créé par la loi n° 26-12 du 8 juin 2026.

Vous trouverez ci-joint les pièces suivantes :

  • la demande établie sur les formulaires fournis par le CNRC, dûment remplie et signée,
  • l'extrait original du registre du commerce,
  • [LE CAS ÉCHÉANT, DEUX COPIES DES ACTES MODIFICATIFS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ],
  • [LE CAS ÉCHÉANT, LA COPIE DE L'INSERTION AU BULLETIN OFFICIEL DES ANNONCES LÉGALES ET DANS UN QUOTIDIEN NATIONAL],
  • [LE CAS ÉCHÉANT, LE CONTRAT DE LOCATION NOTARIÉ OU L'ACTE DE PROPRIÉTÉ],
  • [LE CAS ÉCHÉANT, L'EXTRAIT DE CASIER JUDICIAIRE ET L'ACTE DE NAISSANCE DES NOUVEAUX GÉRANTS],
  • [LE CAS ÉCHÉANT, L'AGRÉMENT OU L'AUTORISATION POUR UNE ACTIVITÉ RÉGLEMENTÉE],
  • les quittances justifiant le paiement du droit de timbre et des frais de modification.

Je certifie l'exactitude des renseignements portés sur la présente demande et sur les pièces qui l'accompagnent.

Dans l'attente d'une suite favorable, je vous prie d'agréer, Monsieur le Directeur, l'expression de ma considération distinguée.

Le déclarant

Nom et prénom :

Qualité :

Signature :

Worth knowing before you file

  • The one month period runs from the date of the change, not from the day you decide to deal with it: the date of the meeting that appointed the manager, the effective date of the lease on the new office, the date of the transfer deed.
  • A transfer of shares or a change of control can also change the identity of the beneficial owner, and any change there must be declared to the CNRC within thirty days under article 12 of executive decree no. 26-163 of 20 April 2026.
  • Publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales and in a national daily takes time you have to plan for. Start the chain as soon as the decision is taken, rather than once every supporting document is gathered.
  • The documents required and the fees due are published by the internal trade ministry and by the CNRC, and can change. Check them before you travel.
  • When you collect it, read the new extract line by line. That is the moment to have a typing error corrected, before it blocks a bank or a tender file.

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We take the file from the resolution through to the collection of the new extract: amending deeds with the notary, notice in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales and in a national daily, assembly of the CNRC file, filing and follow-up. We also take on situations that are already late. Free thirty minute diagnostic call, firm quote within 48 hours.

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When you must amend your trade register

The rule laid down by article 4 bis of law 04-08, created by article 2 of law 26-12, is deliberately broad. It targets changes affecting the particulars of the trade register extract or the status of the legal person. It is therefore not only the major events in the life of a company that trigger the obligation, but anything that makes a line of the extract inaccurate.

The useful reflex is to take your extract and read it line by line. The registration number, the identity of the trader or the corporate name, the address of the registered office, the declared activities with their codes, the legal form, the capital, the identity of the manager. Every line that no longer matches reality starts a one-month clock.

The most frequent case in practice is the transfer of the registered office. It often happens without any formal decision, for example when a company leaves domiciliation premises for its own offices, and the director does not always realise that a mandatory formality has just been triggered.

The second frequent case is the addition or the removal of an activity. Many directors start a related activity assuming it belongs to the same trade, when it in fact corresponds to a distinct code in the nomenclature. Our activity code search tool lets you check this point before starting the formality (/outils/recherche-code-activite).

The third is the change of manager, which calls for particular care because it requires new personal documents, in particular the criminal record extract of the incoming manager.

Case of amendmentWhat changes on the extractSpecific document to prepare
Transfer of the registered officeAddressLease agreement or title deed in the name of the company
Addition or removal of an activityActivity codes and descriptionsApproval or authorisation where the activity is regulated
Change of managerIdentity of the directorCriminal record extract and birth certificate of the new manager
Increase or reduction of capitalAmount of the share capitalAmending instruments and publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales (BOAL) and in a national daily newspaper
Transfer of company sharesDistribution of the capital, sometimes the managementRegistered amending instruments
Change of corporate nameCorporate nameNew name certificate and amending instruments

The one-month deadline under law 26-12

Law no. 26-12 of 22 Dhou El Hidja 1447, corresponding to 8 June 2026, was published in Official Gazette no. 44 of 18 June 2026. Its article 2 inserts into law 04-08 an article 4 bis whose wording is direct: every trader, whether a natural person or a legal person, must initiate the procedures to amend the trade register extract within a maximum of one month, from the date of the changes affecting the particulars of the trade register extract or the status of the legal person.

Two words in that sentence deserve to be weighed. The first is initiate. The obligation bears on starting the procedures, not on completing them. You are not required to have your new extract in hand on the thirtieth day, you are required to have filed the application. That is a favourable nuance, but it assumes the documents were assembled before the deadline, which remains the real work.

The second is from the date of the changes. The clock does not start on the date you decide to deal with the matter, nor on the date an inspector notices it. It starts at the triggering event: the date of the meeting that appointed the new manager, the effective date of the lease on the new premises, the date of the transfer instrument.

Before this text, updating the register was an obligation whose non-performance was mostly dealt with at the moment an up-to-date extract was needed. Since then, it is a self-standing deadline, penalised in its own right. That is the change of logic to take on board.

The penalties: from a fine to removal from the register in six months

Article 6 of law 26-12 rewrites article 37 of law 04-08 in order to penalise the new article 4 bis. The amount of the fine matters less than the escalation that follows.

Put end to end, these deadlines trace a short trajectory. One month to initiate the amendment, three months of formal notice, then the closure, then three more months before removal can be ordered. A failure to update can therefore lead, in a little over six months, to the legal disappearance of the business.

Administrative closure is the measure that strikes earliest and hardest. It requires no court judgment: it is the wali who orders it, and it lasts until regularisation. For a retail business or service premises, it means turnover stops, even though the original breach was purely declarative.

Law 26-12 also tightened the conditions for access to the status of trader, by adding to the list of unrehabilitated convictions preventing registration tax fraud, money laundering, the financing of terrorism and subversion, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Our Official Gazette digest sets out the full text (/journal-officiel/loi-26-12-modification-registre-commerce-delai-un-mois).

StageMeasureBasis
1Fine of 10,000 DA to 500,000 DA for a trader who is a natural personArticle 37 of law 04-08 as rewritten
1 bisFine of 300,000 DA to 700,000 DA for a legal personArticle 37 of law 04-08 as rewritten
2Formal notice to regularise within a period of three months from notificationArticle 37 of law 04-08 as rewritten
3Administrative closure of the premises by the wali until regularisation, reopening following the same formsArticle 37 of law 04-08 as rewritten
4Removal from the trade register ordered by the court if the situation is not regularised within the three months following the closureArticle 37 of law 04-08 as rewritten

The documents to provide

The fact sheet of the ministry of internal trade devoted to amendments distinguishes between the natural person and the legal person. Some documents are required only in the corresponding case.

  • Natural person: the original trade register extract.
  • Natural person: an application made out on the forms provided by the Centre national du registre de commerce (CNRC).
  • Natural person: the notarised lease agreement or the title deed, where the registered office is transferred.
  • Natural person: the receipt evidencing payment of the stamp duty, in the amount of 4,000 DA.
  • Natural person: the receipt evidencing payment of the trade register amendment fee, in the amount of 2,160 DA.
  • Natural person: the approval or the authorisation of the competent authorities where the activity is regulated.
  • Legal person: the original trade register extract.
  • Legal person: an application made out on the forms provided by the CNRC.
  • Legal person: the criminal record extract and the birth certificate of the new managers, where the management changes.
  • Legal person: two copies of the amending instruments of the company.
  • Legal person: a copy of the publication of the amendments in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales and in a national daily newspaper.
  • Legal person: the lease agreement or the title deed made out in the name of the company, where the registered office is transferred.
  • Legal person: the receipt evidencing payment of the stamp duty, in the amount of 4,000 DA.
  • Legal person: the receipt evidencing payment of the trade register amendment fee.
  • Legal person: the approval or the authorisation of the competent authorities where the activity is regulated.

Two documents explain most of the return trips to the counter. The first is the original extract: it is indeed the original that is filed, not a copy, since the formality ends with the issue of an extract replacing the previous one. The second is publication in the BOAL and in a national daily newspaper for legal persons, which involves a publication lead time to anticipate if you want to stay within the month set by article 4 bis.

The lease agreement must be made out in the name of the company for a legal person. A lease in the manager's own name does not qualify, which regularly surprises directors who install their company in premises they rent themselves.

How much a trade register amendment costs

The cost reads at two levels: the registration fee set by ministerial order, and the amount actually paid at the counter, which incorporates the ancillary components.

These amounts are those of the schedule published by the CNRC on its portal sidjilcom.cnrc.dz. They differ from the basic registration fees set by the order of 31 October 2016 published in Official Gazette no. 01 of 4 January 2017, which represent only one component of the price paid at the counter. The fact sheet of the ministry of internal trade mentions, for its part, an amendment fee of 2,160 DA for the natural person. These gaps come from the scope each source covers, not from a contradiction.

The 4,000 DA stamp duty is not a CNRC rate: it is instituted by article 155 bis of the code du timbre, rewritten by article 44 of loi n° 25-17 of 14 December 2025 (finance act for 2026), Journal officiel no. 88 of 31 December 2025, page 38, which applies it on the opening or the amendment of the trade register. The same article provides an exemption from that duty where the amendment results from a décision or an acte. The Journal officiel stops at those words and refers the remainder to a rest unchanged marker, so the exact conditions of the exemption are not reproduced there, and we do not invent them. If your amendment is imposed on you by a decision or an instrument rather than requested by you, ask the tax collector whether the exemption applies before you pay.

For a legal person, costs that do not fall to the CNRC are added to these amounts: the notary's fees for the amending instruments and the cost of the publications in the BOAL and in a national daily newspaper. They account for most of the gap between the administrative rate and the real budget of a statutory amendment.

To place these costs within the overall budget of a company being formed, our dedicated page on formation costs sets out all the items (/cout-creation-entreprise-algerie).

FormalityCNRC rate published on sidjilcom.cnrc.dz
Amendment, natural person2,592.00 DA
Amendment without capital increase, legal person4,032.00 DA
Amendment with a capital increase of 10,000 to 50,000 DA4,224.00 DA
Amendment with a capital increase of 50,001 to 100,000 DA4,704.00 DA
Amendment with a capital increase above 100,000 DA4,992.00 DA
Additional activity classification240.00 DA per classification
Stamp duty to attach to the file4,000 DA

The procedure step by step

  • Date the triggering event. It is from that date that the month under article 4 bis runs, not from the date of filing.
  • For a legal person, have the amending instruments drawn up by the notary following the resolution of the general meeting.
  • Have the amendments published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces légales and in a national daily newspaper, and keep the proofs of publication.
  • Assemble the documents specific to the case: lease or title deed for a transfer, criminal record extract and birth certificate for a new manager, approval for a regulated activity.
  • Pay the stamp duty of 4,000 DA and the amendment fee, and keep the receipts.
  • File the complete application together with the original extract at the competent CNRC office or with the CNRC representative at the guichet unique de l'investissement (single investment window).
  • Collect the new extract, which carries the electronic trade register code, and check line by line that it does reflect the new situation.

The step most often underestimated is publication. Between the resolution, the notarial instrument and the actual appearance in the BOAL and in a daily newspaper, several days go by. Since the obligation bears on initiating the procedures within the month, it is prudent to start the chain as soon as the decision is taken rather than waiting to have every supporting document in hand.

Since executive decree no. 26-155 of 14 April 2026, published in Official Gazette no. 31 of 28 April 2026, the CNRC representatives at the guichets uniques de l'investissement are empowered to draw up, sign and issue all the instruments falling within the prerogatives of the trade register officer. An amendment file handled at the single window therefore produces an extract of the same value.

The mistakes that cost the most

The first is to believe that the deadline runs from the moment the problem is noticed. It runs from the change. A manager appointed in January and declared in June has been in breach since February, whatever the director's good faith.

The second is to treat separately formalities that are triggered together. A change of manager or a transfer of shares amends the trade register, but it may also change the identity of the beneficial owner, which must be declared to the CNRC within thirty days under executive decree 26-163. The two deadlines run in parallel and are often missed together (/beneficiaire-effectif-algerie).

The third is to forget that the extract serves as an entry document for other procedures. An out-of-date extract blocks the opening of an account, a bid for a public contract, a financing application. The real cost of the delay is not the fine, it is the transaction that could not go through.

The fourth is to confuse amendment with removal. Ceasing one activity among several is an amendment. Ceasing all activity is a removal, with a different file and a different tax prerequisite (/radiation-registre-commerce-algerie).

Having UpGrowth handle your amendment

Amending the trade register is a simple formality on paper and a tiresome one in practice, because it chains together three parties that do not work at the same pace: the notary for the instruments, the publication bodies for the notice, the CNRC for the registration. The month set by article 4 bis leaves no margin for discovering that sequence along the way.

UpGrowth Connect takes the file from the resolution through to collection of the new extract: drafting and follow-up of the amending instruments with the notary, publication in the BOAL and in a national daily newspaper, assembly of the CNRC file with the receipts and the personal documents, filing and follow-up until issue.

We also handle situations that are already late. Where a change dates back several months, the priority is to start the procedure immediately in order to stop matters getting worse, before the formal notice is even served. The initial diagnostic is free and takes thirty minutes.

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