Everything for establishing and maintaining a business available on line

In Italy, all businesses must be registered in a specific list (the "Registro delle Imprese", Commercial Register) held by the local Chamber of Commerce. It is sufficient to sign an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce in order to absolve on line all the adminsitrative fulfilments through the "Telemaco" IT system. Registered users have access to software which allows rapid and simple preparation of requests for registration and modifications to the existing registrations with the Commercial Register. Telemaco also allows access to much of the information managed by the Chambers of Commerce. Further information on the service is available from the www.infocamere.it and www.cameradicommercio.it sites. The site of the Ministry for Productive Activity (www.minindustria.it) offers research, documentation, statistical data and other information (for example, on localisation contracts).

The website www.investinitaly.com is available to those foreign enterprises wishing to invest in Italy. Its includes all information on business opportunities in the different sectors available on the Italian market, and a Guide to Investments intended for better understanding how to start up a business activity in Italy, which are the incentives offered and how work relations, the tax system, as well as laws on intellectual property and on the real estate market work.
For further information on InvestInItaly’s actitivites email: info@investinitaly.com.

A Single Office for Productive Activity ("Sportello Unico per le Attivita´ Produttive"-SUAP) has been activated in 69% of Italian municipalities, where those entrepreneurs who plan to start up a new business can request information and fulfil the necessary obligations, without having to contact separately all the government offices involved. The Single Office simplifies procedures and reduces the time and costs involved in business start up. More information can be obtained from the websites of individual municipalities (a list of which can be found at www.finanze.gov.it) and on www.formez.it.