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Documents required for the CRC

Documents are organised by criterion (legal, financial, technical, HSE and integrity). See what each one covers and the details that cause registrations to fail.

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The assessment is divided into criteria, each requiring its own set of documents. Simplified Registration covers only Legal, Technical and Integrity — Financial and HSE are excluded.

Legal criterion

  • Articles of Association (and amendments)
  • Commercial Registry certificate
  • Certificate or registration with the relevant professional body
  • CNPJ registration certificate
  • Joint Certificate of Federal Tax Debts and Federal Overdue Debt
  • FGTS Compliance Certificate

The detail that causes rejection

Documents must be valid on the date the questionnaire is SUBMITTED — not the date you started assembling them. A certificate that expires during the process causes the criterion to fail.

Financial criterion

Financial statements (Balance Sheet, Income Statement/DRE, Statement of Retained Earnings/DLPA, Cash Flow Statement/DFC, Notes and, where applicable, Audit Report and Value Added Statement/DVA). Requirements vary with the company’s legal form and size.

  • All statements must be signed by the accountant AND the legal representative.
  • Additional requirements apply when equity is equal to or greater than R$ 2 million.
  • Large companies (total assets above R$ 240 million or gross revenue above R$ 300 million, under Law 11,638/07) face specific requirements.
How the balance sheet becomes a ratio (and why there is no ‘minimum’)

Technical and Technical-HSE criteria

Evidence that the company supplies what it declared in the selected families and — for Corporate Registration — an assessment of its health, safety and environmental management system.

Integrity criterion

An assessment of the company’s compliance/integrity. It applies to both Corporate and Simplified Registration.

What integrity due diligence investigates Official source: Petrobras — Assessment Criteria (Portuguese)Official registration page: Petrobras — Supplier Channel (Portuguese)

A silent mistake: an attachment in the wrong place

An attachment not linked to the correct requirement may simply not be found by the assessor: the document exists, you attached it — and it still counts as missing. This guidance appears in the Assessment Questionnaire support material inside the portal; because it is not a public page, we have no URL to cite here.

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