Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry |
| Acronym: |
BECI
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| Legal status: |
Non profit organisation
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| Website address: |
http://www.beci.be
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Olivier Willocx
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| Position: |
CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Jean-Philippe Mergen
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| Position: |
Director International Department |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
500 Avenue Louise
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 2 2100177 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 2 6409328 |
| Other contact information: |
BECI, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry, which brings together Brussels' Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Brussels Business Federation, includes 33,000 member companies located in the Brussels-Capital Region.
The services that BECI provides to companies are those generally expected of a Chamber of Commerce: advice on imports and exports, legal and social advice, training, support for the creation of enterprises, administrative formalities, and the establishment of business contacts between companies, including via databases of Belgian companies.
As an employers’ organization, BECI upholds the interests of companies located in Brussels with regard to the regional, federal and European authorities.
BECI is member of Enterprise Europe Network. In this framework, it offers business support services for the international development of Brussels-based companies by providing them with various services:
- information on European legislation and Directives and on market access
- the organisation of theme-based seminars on exports and foreign markets
- guidance in the search for international business contacts
- events aimed at promoting international business relationships:
o economic missions,
o brokerage events (days of pre-organised business meetings with targeted potential partners from various countries operating in a specific sector),
o business meetings with foreign delegations in Brussels.
- Export formalities: issuance of certificates of origin and ATA carnets, and legalisation of export documents.
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
BECI, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry, which brings together Brussels' Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Union of Enterprises in Brussels (UEB), includes 33,000 member companies located in the Brussels-Capital Region.
The services that BECI provides to companies are those generally expected of a Chamber of Commerce: advice on imports and exports, legal and social advice, training, support for the creation of enterprises, administrative formalities, and the establishment of business contacts between companies, including via databases of Belgian companies.
As an employers’ organization, BECI upholds the interests of companies located in Brussels with regard to the regional, federal and European authorities.
BECI is member of the Enterprise Europe Network. In this framework, BECI has to inform the Brussels businesses on the EU legislation and directives. We listen to the problems the Brussels businesses face doing business at home or across Europe and we give the feedback to the European Commission. We make consultation of the companies on current or future legislation to help the EU Commission to improve legislation for the business of the Brussels companies.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Seminars on EU directives and EU funding programmes
Feedback and consultation of Brussels business on online payment, ADR, VAT.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Competition
- Customs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Food Safety
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Regional Policy
- Taxation
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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BECI is member of Enterprise Europe Network.
BECI is member of the Federation of Belgian Chambers of Commerce.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
06/2011
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06/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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116,725 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Grant concerning Enterprise Europe Network
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