Your Europe, your opportunity
Practical guide to doing business in Europe.

Start & grow

• Start ups
• European
  Company -
  Legal form
• Intellectual
  property rights
• Annual accounts
• Mergers with
  foreign companies

VAT &
customs

• VAT-Basics rules
• Cross-border VAT
• Check a VAT
  number (VIES)
• VAT refunds
• Excise duties
• Reporting
  imports/exports

Selling abroad

• Providing services
  abroad
• Distance selling
• Competition rules
• Late payment
  interest
• Importing/
  exporting goods
• Unfair contract
  terms
• Customers
  guarantees

Staff

• Terms of
  employment
• Social security
• Posting abroad
• Equal treatment
• Redundancies
• Health & safety

Product
requirements

• CE-mark
• Classification,
  labelling,
  packaging
• Chemicals
  (REACH)
• Mutual recognition

Funding

• EU funding
  programmes
• Access to finance
• Exchanges for
  young
  entrepreneurs

Public
contracts

• Tools & databases
• Rules &
  procedures
• Reporting
  irregularities

Environment

• EMAS certification
• Energy labels
• Eco-design
• EU eco-label