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Company creation: formalities for registering a individual business

Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Formalities Amount

Published on 1 January 2023

The amounts indicated in the form may change as a result of the establishment of the companies formalities office.

Want to become an individual entrepreneur? After completing various formalities, including your domicile, you must register your company.

Company registration after certain formalities. For example:

Warning  

From 1to January 2023, it is no longer possible to make your paperwork in a company Formalities Centre (CFE). You have to make them on the website of company formalities window.

You must apply for registration on the website of the company formalities office:

Company formalities window

FYI  

If you are a commercial agent, you are also automatically registered in the Special Register of Commercial Agents (SFCR).

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You have less than 11 employees

Business

You are registered by the companies formalities office in the national register of companies (RNE: titleContent) and the register of trade and businesses (RCS: titleContent).

FYI  

If you are a commercial agent, you are also automatically registered in the Special Register of Commercial Agents (SFCR).

Other Activity

You are registered by the companies formalities office in the national register of companies (RNE: titleContent) and the register of trade and businesses (RCS: titleContent).

You have 11 or more employees

You are registered in the National company Directory (RNE: titleContent).

FYI  

If you are a commercial agent, you are also automatically registered in the Special Register of Commercial Agents (SFCR).

You must send the following documents in PDF format:

  • If you did not sign your company creation declaration yourself, original power by which you authorise a third party to sign the declaration on your behalf. Copy of the identity documents of the signatory third party
  • Justification of domiciliation your company with a clearly identifiable address (water or electricity or gas bill, lease agreement)
  • Statement on honour of non-conviction and proof of filiation dated and signed by you
  • Copy of your ID
  • Copy of contract in support of the company project (Cape: titleContent)
  • If carry on a regulated activity, a copy of the authorisation to pursue the activity, diploma or title
  • If you're married, copy dated and signed the certificate of issuance of the information given to the spouse concerning the consequences on the common property of debts incurred in the exercise of your profession
  • If you are in a cohabitation, joint life certificate or declaration on the honour of cohabitation
  • If you have made a declaration of your property being out of business, true copy of the
  • In case leasing, a copy of the contract and a certificate of publication in a medium authorised to receive legal notices
  • In the case of warrant management, copy of the warrant management contract and certificate of publication in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements

Warning  

In case of providing inaccurate or incomplete information in bad faith, you are liable to a fine of €4,500 and six months' imprisonment.

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Business

Registration of your company costs €25.34.

FYI  

if you are a commercial agent, you have to pay €25.19.

Handicraft activity

Registration of your company costs €45.

Liberal, agricultural and artistic activity

Your company registration is free.

Once your completed application has been submitted, you will receive a company Creation File Receipt (DCER) with a status of Pending Registration.

This receipt is important because it will allow you to make all necessary representations to public and private organisations. For example, you can subscribe to mandatory and supplementary insurance for the company, join a pension fund.

The receipt is valid until you receive a notification from the companies formalities office confirming the registration of your company. The maximum validity period of the receipt is 1 month.

Once you have registered, you will receive a document containing your SIREN number.

If your file is incomplete, you will receive a receipt from the company formalities office indicating the missing items to be sent. You will have 15 minutes business days from receipt of receipt to send these items.

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