Term:
Date of creation (of legal unit)
Definition:
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.
Domain:
Statistical Business Registers
Source:
European Commission (Eurostat), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat – OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics", Methodologies and Working papers, Publication Office of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2007.
