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 Banckruptcy/Declared insolvency proceedings of legal persons and equivalent entities (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Banckruptcy/Declared insolvency proceedings of legal persons and equivalent entities (No.) by Geographic location (NUTS - 2024) and Economic activity (Section); Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source DGPJ - Directorate-General for Justice Policy, Declared insolvencies
First available period 4th Quarter 2023
Last available period 2nd Quarter 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Geographic location (NUTS - 2024)
  • Economic activity (Section - CAE Rev. 3)
Concepts
  • BANKRUPTCY:  Situation in which a company is unable to fulfil its obligations, having proven itself economically infeasible or unable to achieve financial recovery. It is the appropriate legal proceedings (special procedure) required to obtain a debtor's declaration o
  • ENTITY CONSIDERED EQUIVALENT TO A LEGAL PERSON:  Any non-personalised service, entity or body whose registration in the Legal Entities Central Index is of interest for planning and management purposes.
  • PARTNERSHIP:  Organisation consisting of a group of individuals or assets pursuing common defined interests to which the legal system attributes the status of a subject in law (a legal personality). It may apply to public or private law.
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • INSOLVENCY:  Situation in which a debtor is unable to fulfil his/her financial obligations in due time, owing either to lack of means or lack of credit.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Bankruptcy/Declared insolvency proceedings only include legal persons and equivalent entities, i.e., private law legal persons, with their main economic activity, according to the CAE in force, within the scope of business statistics. Bankruptcy/insolvency proceedings involving natural persons and public law legal persons are not included, as they are not considered ¿enterprises¿ in this context. For CAE Rev.3, enterprises in sections A to S, except O, are considered. For CAE Rev.4, enterprises in sections A to T, except P, are considered.
Last update date 30/10/2025


information presented in 5/11/2025