name: OpenMercantil Vocabulary description: >- Vocabulary and taxonomy for OpenMercantil's Spanish company intelligence domain, covering BORME registry concepts, company and person entities, integrated public-data sources, and OpenMercantil-specific scoring concepts. created: '2026-05-16' modified: '2026-05-16' terms: - term: BORME definition: >- Boletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil. The Spanish official gazette that publishes daily acts of all registered commercial entities, including incorporations, appointments, depositions of accounts and dissolutions. BORME is the upstream source of OpenMercantil's timelines. tags: [Core Source, Spain, Registry] - term: Registro Mercantil definition: >- The Spanish Commercial Registry, a network of provincial registries operated under the Ministerio de Justicia, where all Spanish commercial entities are registered. OpenMercantil is not the Registro Mercantil and does not replace official extracts. tags: [Registry, Spain] - term: CIF definition: >- Codigo de Identificacion Fiscal. The Spanish tax identification code for legal entities, used as the primary stable identifier for companies in OpenMercantil. tags: [Identifier, Tax] - term: Company definition: >- A Spanish commercial entity (Sociedad Anonima, Sociedad Limitada, Cooperativa, etc.) registered with a Registro Mercantil and indexed by OpenMercantil from BORME publications. tags: [Core Entity, Company] - term: Slug definition: >- The canonical OpenMercantil identifier for a company or person, typically `{name-normalized}-{cif}` for companies and `{name-normalized}` for persons. Slugs are stable across the public API. tags: [Identifier] - term: Officer definition: >- A natural person or entity holding a registered role with a company, including administradores, consejeros, apoderados, secretarios and auditores. tags: [Person, Role] - term: Event definition: >- A BORME act published against a company, representing changes such as Constitucion, Nombramientos, Ceses, Cuentas anuales, Cambio de domicilio, or Disolucion. Events form the registry timeline. tags: [Core Entity, Timeline] - term: CNAE definition: >- Clasificacion Nacional de Actividades Economicas 2009. The Spanish industry sector classification used to categorize companies. OpenMercantil exposes the CNAE tree and per-sector aggregates. tags: [Taxonomy, Sector] - term: CCAA definition: >- Comunidades Autonomas. Spanish autonomous communities used as a geographic aggregation dimension for OpenMercantil statistics. tags: [Geography, Spain] - term: PLACSP definition: >- Plataforma de Contratacion del Sector Publico. The Spanish public procurement platform, integrated by OpenMercantil for the contracts endpoints and trust-score signals. tags: [Source, Public Procurement] - term: CNMV definition: >- Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores. The Spanish securities regulator, whose disclosures are integrated into OpenMercantil for listed-entity records. tags: [Source, Regulator] - term: BDNS definition: >- Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones. The Spanish national database of public grants, integrated into OpenMercantil's company grants endpoint. tags: [Source, Grants] - term: OEPM definition: >- Oficina Espanola de Patentes y Marcas. The Spanish patent and trademark office, used as a signal source for OpenMercantil's trust score. tags: [Source, Intellectual Property] - term: OpenSanctions definition: >- Open dataset of sanctioned and politically exposed entities and persons, integrated by OpenMercantil into the company sanctions endpoint. tags: [Source, Sanctions] - term: Trust Score definition: >- A v1.4 composite signal score combining BORME activity, CNMV records, OEPM filings, PLACSP contracts, BOE notices and sanctions hits into a single per-company indicator. Informational only. tags: [Score, OpenMercantil] - term: Embargo definition: >- A public seizure or attachment order recorded against a company in Spanish public records, surfaced via the v1.4 embargoes endpoint. tags: [Public Record, Risk] - term: Daily Summary definition: >- The aggregated BORME publication for a given date, accessible via the daily endpoint and used to subscribe to registry activity in bulk. tags: [Feed, Timeline] - term: Rate Limit definition: >- The public anonymous tier of the OpenMercantil API is limited to roughly 60 requests per minute per IP, with `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers signaling remaining capacity, and `429 Too Many Requests` returned on exceed. tags: [Operations, Public API]