TRADE & INVESTMENT

Useful Links

Federal Planning Bureau (www.plan.be)	Economic Analyses & Forecasts.
Federal Public Service Economy, SME’s, Energy, Self-Employed (www.mineco.fgov.be)
Federal Government (www.belgium.be)	Portal site of the Belgian Federal Government
BELGOSTAT (www.nbb.be/belgostat)	Federal statistics
National Bank of Belgium (www.nbb.be)	Economic analyses and forecasts

Flanders Investment and Trade	www.investinflanders.com
Wallonia Export & Investment Agency	www.investinwallonia.be
Brussels Enterprise Agency	www.abe-bao.be
Brussels Capital-Region	www.bruxelles.irisnet.be/
Service for Foreign Investments, Federal Public Service Economy, SME’s, Self-Employed and Energy	www.mineco.fgov.be www.investinbelgium.fgov.be
American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium	www.amcham.be
Federal Public Service Finance Tax Department for Foreign Investors	www.fiscus.fgov.be/interfinvesten/ Voorstelling/voorstelling.htm
Work permits-Flanders	www.vlaanderen.be/werk
Work permits-Wallonia	emploi.wallonie.be
Work permits-Brussels	www.bruxelles.irisnet.be
Professional cards	www.mineco.fgov.be
Agency for Foreign Trade	www.abh-ace.org
Brussels Export	www.brussels-export.irisnet.be

Industrial (general)	Federation of Belgian Companies www.vbo-feb.be
Finance	National Bank of Belgium (www.nbb.be) Belgian Bankers Association (www.abb-bvb.be) Banking and Finance Commission (www.cbf.be) Stock Exchange (www.euronext.com)
Social Security	FPS Labor and Employment (www.meta.fgov.be) www.socialsecurity.fgov.be www.ib.fgov.be
Telecom	Belgian Institute for Post and Telecommunication (www.ibpt.be)
Biotechnology	Belgian Bioindustries Association (www.bba-bio.be) Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (www.vib.be) Directorate General for Technology, Research and Energy , Wallonia (DGTRE) (http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgtre/) Brussels Enterprise Agency (www.abe-bao.be)
Pharmaceutical	Belgian Pharmaceutical Association (AGIM-AVGI) www.agim-avgi.be FPS Public Health, Food Safety, Environment (pharma pricing) www.health.fgov.be
Venture capital	Belgian venture association (www.bvassociation.org) Belgian association of business angels network (BEBAN) www.beban.be) Brussels Regional Investment Company www.srib.be Regional Investment Company of Wallonia www.sriw.be Regional Investment Company of Flanders www.gimv.be Wallonian finance and guarantee company for small and medium-sized (SME) companies (SOWALFIN) www.sowalfin.be