One must apply for a business permit if he wishes to engage in the following professional activities, either as a self-employed person or as a company:

• a commercial activity (trade, HORECA – hotel, restaurant and café, transports, industry, etc.);
• a craft activity (food, fashion, construction, mechanical engineering, audiovisual, entertainment, art, etc.);
• certain liberal professions which are mainly intellectual in nature.

The holder of a business permit must notify certain changes (for example: change of the managing director’s usual place of residence, change of place of business, etc.) to the General Directorate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of the Ministry of Economy.