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.minfin.fgov.be
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) Febelfin - Financial Industry (www.febelfin.be)
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	Pharmaceutical Industry www.pharma.be FPS Public Health, Food Safety, Environment (pharma pricing) www.health.fgov.be
Life sciences industry	www.essenscia.be