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Business Development Agency
Role
The duties of the Department are:
- The examination and the administrative support of applications for the creation of new businesses and the amendments to existing businesses
- Keep the Trade and Industry Register
- Deal with Court cases under its area of responsibility and proposals to update legislative and regulatory provisions in force, and, if appropriate, draft new legislation
- Monitor business activity
- Examine applications, grant and monitor financial aid packages for businesses
- Issue industrial property rights certificates and perform the relevant registrations in national records
The Authority is also entrusted with:
- Creating, maintaining and optimising permanent contacts and relationships with all professional and business partners
- Participating in prospection or economic development organised by the competent bodies
Within this Agency, Monaco Welcome and Business Office is specifically responsible for developing a high quality one-stop-shop and personalised support for entrepreneurs
Organisation and operation
The Business Development Agency is organised around a unit and two functional centers of expertise, as follows:
Monaco Welcome and Business Office or the 'Front Office'
It includes the Business Development and Funding Division
General Administration or 'Back Office'
It includes:
- The Business Start-up Division
- The Business Monitoring Division
- The Legal Services Division
- The Trade and Industry Register Section
- The Intellectual Property Section
- The Business Development and Funding Division
Intellectual Property Authority
It includes the Intellectual Property Division.
Go to Industrial Property website
Legal References
Ordinance no. 11.986 of 02 July 1996 establishing the Business Development Agency
Contact details
The Government
- The Ministry of State
- Ministry of Interior
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Ministry of Finance and Economy
- The Minister of Finance and Economy
- Department of Budget and Treasury
- Public Treasury
- Department of Tax Services
- SICCFIN
- The State Property Authority
- Housing Department
- Business Development Agency
- Tourist and Convention Authority
- Stamp Issuing Office
- Tobacco and Matches Board
- Gambling Authority
- Monaco Post Office
- Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
- Ministry of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation