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1. Business project
- Defining a business project
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Entry and stay
- Staying and/or working in Luxembourg as an EU citizen
- Conditions of residence for self-employed third-country workers
- Conditions of residence for investors from third countries
- Application for an opinion on an investment project in the context of an application for an investor residence permit - Ministry of Finance component
- Staying in Luxembourg for more than 3 months as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
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Diplomas / Qualifications
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Recognition of a level of education, a diploma or a professional qualification
- Recognition of the level of education (elementary and secondary education) without achieving a final diploma
- Recognition of equivalence of diplomas (baccalauréat/Matura type)
- Recognition of the equivalency of professional qualifications
- Application for recognition of professional qualifications obtained abroad (access to a regulated profession at a higher education level)
- Application for academic recognition of foreign higher education diplomas
- Approval of a foreign higher education law degree
- Master Craftsman's certificate
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Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning (VAE)
- Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning (VAE) – CCP, DAP, DT, DFESG and master craftsman's certificate
- Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning – Bachelor's degree, Master's degree or advanced technician's certificate
- Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning – Continuous vocational training certificates – LLLC
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Recognition of a level of education, a diploma or a professional qualification
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Assistance for the creation/takeover of a business
- Business operations and services: House of Entrepreneurship
- Business mentoring
- Craft activities: 'Contact Entreprise' at the Chamber of Skilled Trades and Crafts
- Notary
- Commercial and craft activities in the north of Luxembourg: Guichet Unique PME
- Research / Development and Innovation (RDI): Luxinnovation
- Business restructuring
- Domiciliation of companies
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2. Access to a profession / business permit
- Business permits / professional integrity
- Skilled craft activities
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Commercial activities
- Continuous vocational training establishments
- Hotel status
- Horeca (hotel, restaurant, café)
- Trader
- Real estate professions
- Operator of an accommodation establishment
- International road passenger transport
- National road passenger transport
- National carriage of goods by road with vehicles of under 3.5 tonnes
- National carriage of goods by road with vehicles of over 3.5 tonnes
- International carriage of goods by road with vehicles between 2.5 and 3.5 tonnes
- International carriage of goods by road with vehicles of over 3.5 tonnes
- Liberal professions requiring a business permit
- Liberal professions subject to other permits
- Social and educational professions
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Activities subject to specific registration and/or authorisation
- Private security and surveillance activities - special accreditation
- Transport of goods by road - Community licence
- Transport of passengers by road - Community licence
- Application for a taxi operator licence
- Taxi driver licence
- Chèque-Service Accueil (CSA) service provider – education and care service
- Education and care service for children – accreditation
- Education and care service staff
- Accreditation and recognition of childminders under the childcare service voucher (CSA) scheme
- Childcare Service Voucher service providers (CSA) – mini-crèches
- Mini-crèches – Accreditation
- Staff of a mini-crèche
- Licence to provide a media service from Luxembourg
- Technical assessment and inspection tasks - accreditation
- Private research institutions - accreditation
- The credit intermediary concept
- Accreditation to engage in activities to support the employment of workers with a disability and workers awaiting external redeployment
- Declaring tattoo studios and establishments providing public tanning appliances
- List of regulated professions
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3. Legal form (company or self-employed)
- Sole proprietorships (self-employed persons) and partnerships
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Capital companies
- Comparative table - Capital companies
- European company (SE)
- European companies - Involvement of workers
- Cooperative company (SCOP)
- Civil company (Société civile)
- Public Limited Company (SA)
- Private limited liability company (SARL)
- Simplified limited liability company (SARL-S)
- Partnership limited by shares (SCA)
- Societal impact company (SIS)
- Simplified shareholder company (SAS)
- European Cooperative Society
- Business groups and associations
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Foundations and non-profit associations (ASBL)
- Foundations
- Amending a foundation's articles of association
- Recognition of a non-profit association's status as a public interest organisation
- Setting up a foundation
- Amending the articles of association of a non-profit organisation (ASBL) recognised as a public interest organisation
- Approval of donations and bequests to an ASBL or foundation
- Public-sector establishment
- 4. Business creation/registration with the Trade and Companies Register
- 5. Registration for VAT and social security
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National road passenger transport
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International carriage of goods by road with vehicles between 2.5 and 3.5 tonnes
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National carriage of goods by road with vehicles of over 3.5 tonnes
The activity includes the carriage of goods by road with vehicles (trucks, tractor units or coupled vehicles) whose maximum allowable weight exceeds 3.5 tonnes. A business permit is required to work as a national carrier of goods by road with......