---
title: "List legal forms and State fees"
method: GET
path: "/creation/legal-forms"
tags: ["Company creation"]
---

# List legal forms and State fees

`GET /creation/legal-forms`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://www.upgrowth.dz/api/v1`
- URL: `https://www.upgrowth.dz/api/v1/creation/legal-forms`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - HTTP bearer

The legal forms for creating a company in Algeria with the partners allowed, the minimum capital and the State fees. It holds no fee of a service provider. Tunisia (country=TN) and Morocco (country=MA): the legal forms, the creation steps and the official fees.

## Query parameters

- `lang` 'fr' | 'ar' | 'en'
- `country` string

## Response `200`

The data, with its meta.

- object
  - `data` LegalForm[], required
    - `code` string, required: For example SARL, EURL or SPA.
    - `name` string, required: The name of the form, in the language of the request.
    - `associates` object
      - `min` integer, nullable: Fewest partners.
      - `max` integer, nullable: Most partners, null when there is no limit.
      - `note` string, nullable
    - `capital` object
      - `min_capital_dzd` integer, nullable: The legal minimum, null when the law fixes none.
      - `usual_capital_dzd` integer, nullable: The capital usually asked in practice: an observation, not a legal rule.
      - `public_offering_capital_dzd` integer, nullable: The minimum for a company that makes a public offering.
      - `min_capital_tnd` integer, nullable: Tunisia: the legal minimum in dinars, null when the law fixes none.
      - `public_offering_capital_tnd` integer, nullable: Tunisia: the minimum in dinars for a company that makes a public offering.
      - `min_capital_mad` integer, nullable: Morocco: the legal minimum in dirhams, null when the law fixes none.
      - `public_offering_capital_mad` integer, nullable: Morocco: the minimum in dirhams for a company that makes a public offering.
      - `note` string, nullable
    - `steps` FeeStep[], required
      - `step` string, required: The creation step.
      - `fee` object, nullable, required: The fee the State fixes, null when no text fixes one.
        - `dzd` integer: The fee in dinars.
        - `dzd_electronic` integer: The fee when paid electronically.
        - `dzd_min` integer: The lowest fee, when it depends on the case.
        - `dzd_max` integer: The highest fee, when it depends on the case.
        - `tnd` integer: Tunisia: the fee in dinars.
        - `tnd_electronic` integer: Tunisia: the fee in dinars when the procedure is carried out electronically.
        - `tnd_min` integer: Tunisia: the lowest fee in dinars, when it depends on the case.
        - `tnd_max` integer: Tunisia: the highest fee in dinars, when it depends on the case.
        - `mad` integer: Morocco: the fee in dirhams.
      - `priced` boolean, required: False for a third-party price that no text fixes, such as the notary or the bank: it carries no amount on purpose.
      - `delay` string, nullable: Tunisia and Morocco: the official delay of the step, when a page states one.
      - `documents` string[]: Tunisia and Morocco: the documents the step asks for.
      - `source` union: The official text the fee comes from: a reference for Algeria, the official page for Tunisia and Morocco.
        - string
        - SourceRef
          - `url` string, uri, required: The official page the record was read on.
          - `title` string, required: What the page is.
          - `retrieved` string, required: The day the page was read, as YYYY-MM-DD.
      - `note` string, nullable: A note on the step, in French for Algeria, in the language of the request for Tunisia and Morocco.
    - `published_fees_total` object
      - `min_dzd` integer, nullable
      - `max_dzd` integer, nullable
      - `scope_note` string, nullable: What the total covers.
      - `excludes` string, nullable: What it leaves out.
    - `liability` string, nullable: Tunisia and Morocco: who bears the losses and how far.
    - `legal_basis` string, nullable: Tunisia and Morocco: the law and articles the form comes from.
    - `registration_effect` string, nullable: Tunisia and Morocco: what the registration gives the company.
    - `source` SourceRef
      - `url` string, uri, required: The official page the record was read on.
      - `title` string, required: What the page is.
      - `retrieved` string, required: The day the page was read, as YYYY-MM-DD.
  - `meta` Meta, required
    - `country` string, nullable: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country the answer is about, for example DZ. Present on every successful answer: null only for the list of countries.
    - `dataset` string, required: Identifier of the dataset the answer comes from.
    - `source` string, required: Name of the source, in the language of the request.
    - `source_url` string, required: The page that describes the source.
    - `licence` string, nullable, required: The licence of the dataset: CC BY 4.0 for the datasets UpGrowth publishes under it, otherwise null.
    - `licence_url` string, nullable, required: Link to the text of the licence, null when licence is null.
    - `attribution` string, required: The credit to give when the data is used, in the language of the request: UpGrowth, with a link to https://www.upgrowth.dz.
    - `updated` string, nullable, required: Day of the snapshot of the data, as YYYY-MM-DD. For the tax rates, social contributions and institutions: the day the official pages were read.
    - `notice` string: Datasets without an open licence only: why. A null licence never means public domain.
    - `help` object, required: A call to action to relay to the user, in the language of the request.
      - `text` string, required: One sentence to pass on to the user.
      - `url` string, uri, required: The contact page of UpGrowth to send the user to.
    - `total` integer: Number of results. Present on lists.
    - `limit` integer: Page size used. Paginated lists only.
    - `offset` integer: Results skipped. Paginated lists only.
    - `sommaire_years` integer[]: Journal Officiel search only: the years whose summaries are searched.
    - `free_years` integer[]: Calls with no key, Journal Officiel routes only: the years such a call may read.
    - `truncated` object: Calls with no key only: present when the answer holds fewer rows than matched, because such a call gets at most 10 rows and cannot page.
      - `returned` integer, required: Rows in this answer.
      - `total` integer, nullable: Rows that matched, null when unknown.
    - `free_note` string: Calls with no key only: says the list is not complete. Present with truncated.
    - `sources` SourceRef[]: Tunisian governorates and Moroccan regions only: every official page the list was read on.
      - `url` string, uri, required: The official page the record was read on.
      - `title` string, required: What the page is.
      - `retrieved` string, required: The day the page was read, as YYYY-MM-DD.
    - `disclaimer` Localized: The same text in the three languages of the site.
      - `fr` string
      - `ar` string
      - `en` string

## Other responses

- `400`: A parameter is missing or invalid. error.code names the problem and error.message says how to fix it.
- `401`: invalid_key: the Authorization header is malformed, or the key is unknown or revoked. A call without the header is never refused with this code, it uses the free tier.
- `403`: dataset_unavailable: the account of the key may not read the data of this country. access_denied: the account is not served. Neither says why. key_required: a call with no key asked for what needs one (a country other than Algeria, an older year of the Journal Officiel, a page of a search past the first). trial_ended: the trial of the account is over.
- `404`: not_found: the code, the issue or the section does not exist. country_not_available: the country is not live, or does not have this dataset yet; the message lists the live countries.
- `429`: rate_limited (more than about 30 requests in 10 seconds from one address), free_quota_exceeded (the free tier of the address is used up for today), quota_exceeded (the daily quota of the key is used up) or monthly_quota_exceeded (the monthly quota of the account is used up, on the plans that have one) or trial_quota (the 1,000 calls of a trial are used up, which does not reset). Retry-After says when to try again.
- `503`: unavailable: a call with a key could not be counted right now. Retry in a moment.

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