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General information on starting a business
- Non-trading companies
- Setting up a business - Introduction
- Professional Independent Artist
- Commercial agency
- Licensed professionals
- Administrative office
- Lease management
- Commercial agent
- How to register a non-trading company
- Comparison of legal forms
- General information
- How to notify changes to the registration of non-trading company
- Types of legal entity
- What is a SARL?
- How to deregister a non-trading company
- What is a SNC?
- Alternative ways to operate as a business
- Non-trading companies
- What is a SCS?
- What is a SAM?
- What is a Sole Trader?
Regulated activities
- General information
- List of activities that are regulated and/or subject to authorisation
- Specific areas of activity
- How to obtain approval for an insurance business
- How to sell medicines on the Internet
- How to declare a tattooing, permanent make-up or piercing activity
- Approval and assignments and personnel for private security companies
- Tobacconist shops
Start-up services
- Start-up
- Registration and statement of existence
- NIS Register
- How to obtain a Statistical Identification Number (NIS) from Monaco Statistics
- The Trade and Industry Register (RCI)
- CAMTI - CARTI
- How to establish an SARL
- How to register your company on the Trade and Industry Registry
- How to establish a Business as a Sole Trader
- How to declare a business to the Department of Tax Services
- How to establish an SAM
- How to establish an SCS
- How to establish an SNC
- How to establish a commercial agency
- How to establish an administrative office
- How to set up as a Professional Independent Artist
Acquiring a domicile
- Domiciling a business activity or establishing a company's registered office
- Business centers
- Setting up a business in a Business Centre
- State-owned business premises
- Domiciling an activity at home
- General information
- Business premises
- At home
- How to domicile an activity in a state-owned property
- How to domicile a business
- Business centres
- State-owned premises
Conducting business
Legal and accounting obligations
- Invoices - Obligatory notices
- How to declare details relating to the calculation of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
- How to obtain an extract from the Trade and Industry Registry
- How to open a bank account in Monaco
- How to contact the Department of Budget and Treasury if a bank refuses to open an account for you
- Statistics
- Trade register
- Invoices
- How to declare the five year renewal of registration on the RCI or on the special register of commercial agents
- Opening a bank account pursuant to the right to an account
- Filing of accounts
Specific authorisations
- How to request a CITES permit
- Public events and establishments
- How to request permission for a worksite
- How to second an employee from France to Monaco
- How to second an employee from Italy to Monaco
- How to request permission to conduct business on a boat
- CITES formalities
- How to apply for or renew authorisation for music or musical performances
- Sales and clearances
- Retail sales
- One-off activities in the Principality
- How to apply for or renew authorisation for late closure
- Communications and media
- How to organise a clearance sale
- How to organise a public event
- How to request an authorisation for the installation and use of an SNG system
- How to request a permit for a temporary radio communication network
- How to request an authorisation to shoot in Monaco
- How to apply for authorisation to operate drones
Changes to business activities
- Lease management
- NIS Register
- How to request an amendment or addition to the NIS Register
- Companies
- Sale or transfer of business goodwill
- How to amend or add registration details on the RCI for traders
- Businesses operating under owner's name
- Official documents
- Businesses
- Contractual pledge of goodwill
- How to amend or add registration details on the RCI for businesses
- How to request the registration of a business pledge
- How to apply for the relocation of a business or secondary establishment or for the opening of a secondary office or additional premises
- How to request authorisation for relocation of headquarters or opening of a secondary office or additional premises for companies
- Court-ordered business pledge
- How to register a branch office on the RCI
- How to appoint a director to a société anonyme in Monaco
- How to transfer shares
- How to request the registration of a court-ordered Business pledge
- Trade registry
- How to declare a beneficial owner
- Change of legal form for a Société Anonyme Monégasque (SAM)
- How to request the registration of a business pledge over capital goods
Closing a business
- NIS Register
- How to remove a business from the NIS Register
- Trade register
- How to remove your sole proprietorship
- How to remove your business from the RCI
- Tax authorities
- How to declare the discontinuance of a business to the Department of Tax Services
- How to declare the closure or transfer of a tattooing, permanent make-up or piercing activity business
Premises and works
Premises
- Collection of bulky waste
- Recycling in the Principality
- How to request an incentive payment for photovoltaic-type electricity-producing devices
- Technical Commission for Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
- Premises
- Business premises
- Putting up signs
- Business centers
- Refurbishment
- Technical commission
- Waste collection
Works
- Construction activities: health safety measures - Covid-19
- How to apply for authorization to build and/or demolish or for a preliminary agreement
- How to request permission for a worksite
- Guide to eco materials
- How to refer to the Commission for Compensation of Economic Loss
- Regulations
- Urban Planning Regulations
- How to apply for authorisation to carry out work on and under public roads and adjacent buildings
- Public works
- How to obtain the Principality of Monaco colour palette
- Permits
- How to apply for authorisation for works in pipe galleries
- How to light up a building
- Charter for use of terraces
- Rénovations
- Accessibility of the built environment
- Rénover façades, clôtures et volets
Energy
- International conventions
- Energy, greenhouse gas emissions, buildings
- Transition énergétique
- Energy Transition in Monaco
- Réglementation
- How to request an incentive payment for photovoltaic-type electricity-producing devices
- How to apply for a window renovation subsidy
- Measures to promote ecological vehicles
Security
Food safety
- Regulations
- Food safety
- Hygiene for food of animal origin
- Food hygiene
- Feed and food controls
- Controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption
- Information on good hygiene practice
- Approvals
- How to get a license for the manager of a catering establishment
- How to get an approval for food or feed retailing
Digital security
- Receiving an email
- Recommendations for setting passwords
- Travelling with your telephone, tablet or laptop
- AMSN
- Monaco Cyber Security Agency
- Security recommendations for smartphones and tablets
- Habilitation
- How to request clearance for access to classified information
- Information system security policy
- Technical notes
- Security accreditation
- Habilitation
- Practical guides
- Risks of managed services
- Reacting to a cyber attack
- Basic advice
Employment and social affairs
Employment regulations
- Maternity leave
- Paid annual leave
- Compassionate and special leave
- Paternity leave
- Statutory working hours
- Statutory number of working hours for young people under 18
- Wages in the Principality
- The Labour Inspectorate
- How to submit a case to the employment tribunal
- How to report an accident at work
- How to declare an occupational disease
- COVID19
- How to declare Total Temporary Layoff
- How to declare home working
- Teleworking
- How to implement teleworking in your business
- Public Holidays
- Regulations
- Companies’ internal regulations
- How to request an exemption from the principle of Sunday rest
- Introduction of home working
- Working hours
- Collective agreements
- Exemption from employment regulations
- How to request an exemption to statutory working hours
- Employment tribunal
- Leave
- How to request an exemption from statutory public holidays
- Teleworking
- How to request an exemption to night work for female employees
- Health and safety
- How to request an exemption to the daily rest period granted to female employees
Intellectual property
Tax
VAT
- Statements
- Refunds
- How to request a refund of a deductible VAT credit which cannot be offset
- How to request a refund of VAT credit by a taxpayer not established in Monaco or France
- VAT
- How to request a refund of VAT paid in an EU Member State
- How to declare and pay VAT
- How to register for e-RMB-UE
- How to register for e-VAT
- VAT on property transactions
- Reverse charging of VAT on subcontracted projects in the construction and public works sector
- How to declare taxes on precious metals
- How to request an intra-community VAT number
- How to complete an EC Sales List
- How to register for e-DES service
- Trade of goods declaration between Monaco and the EU
- How to declare the exchange of goods between Monaco and EU
- How to get an acquisition certificate for a means of transport coming from the EEC
- How to declare the rental of premises for non-residential purposes
- Invoices - Obligatory notices
- How to process tax refunds if you are a trader
Other taxes and duties
- How to pay taxes on non-alcoholic beverages
- Excise duty
- How to make a country-by-country declaration or a reporting Entity declaration
- How to make a declaration under the automatic exchange of information
- Corporate income tax
- How to declare tax on insurance contracts
- Taxes on profits
- How to declare and pay corporate income tax
- Registration duties
- How to declare savings income in the form of interest payments
- How to declare payments
- Stamp Duty
- Excise duties
- How to declare payment on securities income and portfolio capital
- How to declare the change or lack of change of beneficial owner
- Indirect taxes
- Registration fees and stamp duties
- Taxation of savings
- Fiscalité internationale
Transport
Access, traffic and parking
- Monaco Railway Station
- Monaco’s heliport
- Ports of Monaco
- How to get about on foot in the Principality
- Access map for people with reduced mobility
- Access to Monaco
- COVID19
- Safety in the tunnels
- Access
- How to request tax stickers for foreign companies operating private hire vehicles with driver and luxury chauffeured vehicles
- How to get a pay and display parking disc
- Traffic
- How to make a pre-operation declaration for foreign private hire vehicles with driver and foreign luxury chauffeured vehicles
- How to reclaim a vehicle that has been impounded
- How to request a special authorisation to use weight restricted roads
- Regulation of touring coaches
- How to request an authorisation for the movement of an abnormal vehicle
- Vehicles
- Occupying the public highway in a designated parking area
- Parking and delivery
- How to obtain an access permit for Monaco Ville
- Road safety
- How to apply to occupy part of the public highway
- How to apply for a parking space in a state owned building
Vehicle registration
- How to appoint a car repair shop to act on your behalf
- Registration
- Specificities for vehicles originating from Italy
- Specificities for vehicles originating from Germany
- How to request a duplicate invoice
- How to request reimbursement
- How to report the theft of a vehicle
- How to declare a change of registered name or address in the Principality
- How to register a new vehicle
- How to register a used vehicle
- How to apply for taxi vehicle registration
- How to register a luxury chauffeur-driven vehicle
- How to apply for registration of a vehicle, known as a "Motorcycle on request”
- How to renew your annual car sticker
- Registration
- How to sell or transfer a vehicle
- How to regularise a vehicle deregistered for failure to renew a registration (car sticker)
- How to declare modifications to a vehicle
- How to change the registration of a vehicle that is more than 30 years old to a vintage vehicle registration
- How to request a registration specifically for driving professionals
- How to request registration of a vehicle for short- or long-term rental
- How to register a trailer ≤750 kg or a light tow bar
- How to apply for a certificate for registration abroad
- Renewal of registration
- How to report the loss or theft of a registration certificate
- How to request individual or single vehicle type approval
- How to apply for temporary registration of a vehicle
- How to request a copy of a constituent document of a file
- Loss or theft
- How to report the loss or theft of a car sticker
- How to declare the destruction of a vehicle
- Invoice and reimbursement
- How to request an apostille of an export certificate
- How to report the loss or theft of a registration plate
- Vehicule modification
- Modification of registration certificates or plates
- How to apply for registration of a pledge or security
- Sale, transfer or export of vehicle
- How to request a temporary registration and how to make an instant printout from the number plate database
- How to declare the loss of an administrative document (such as a declaration, certificate, etc.)
- How to apply for a pledge or security to be deregistered
- How to request a replacement for a registration certificate that is full
- Proxy
- How to request a replacement for a damaged registration plate
- How to replace a damaged car sticker
Technical inspection of vehicules
- How to declare the loss or theft of a technical inspection report
- How to request reimbursement
- How to request a duplicate invoice
- How to appoint a car repair shop to act on your behalf
- Technical inspection
- Purpose of a technical visit and vehicles concerned
- How to present vehicles for technical visits
- Loss or theft
- How to take your vehicle for a follow-up inspection
- Invoice and reimbursement
- General information
- How to request dispensation to have a technical inspection carried out in France
- How to regularise a vehicle that has been deregistered following a failure to complete a technical visit
Professional titles
- How to register a candidate for a driving test or an assessment of driving skills
- How to request or renew a driving instructor's card
- How to report the loss or theft of a professional licence
- How to request a duplicate invoice
- How to request reimbursement
- How to appoint a car repair shop to act on your behalf
- Goods transport
- Passenger and merchandise transport
- How to request a professional licence
- How to renew a professional licence
- Loss or theft
- How to request or renew a medical and land transport card
- Invoice and reimbursement
- Driving schools
- How to request authorisation to use an auxiliary chauffeur-driven vehicle
- How to request an annual authorisation to use an auxiliary chauffeur-driven vehicle
- How to request or renew an electronic tachograph company card
- General information
- How to request or renew an electronic tachograph driver card
- How to request an international road transport permit
- How to request an international road passenger transport permit
- How to apply for registration with the Principality's Road Transport Register
- How to request or renew a certificate for refrigerated carriage
Aids and development
Assistance
- Industrial subsidies
- How to request support for a cultural project
- Marketing support
- How to obtain Support for Market Development Activities
- How to obtain support for attending Trade Fairs
- How to request an incentive payment for photovoltaic-type electricity-producing devices
- Measures to promote ecological vehicles
- How to obtain a subsidy for buying a clean energy vehicle
- How to request a refund of employers' contributions - Sunday openings
- How to request support for professional training
- Support for recruitment
- How to request the intervention of the Monegasque credit guarantee fund
- How to apply for an interest subsidy
- The Monegasque Credit Guarantee Fund
- Hospitality industry loan
- The Committee for Assistance to Businesses in difficulty
- How to claim the Monegasque Fund for Innovation
- How to claim the Monegasque “EUREKA" Fund
- Société d'Aide à la Création et au Développement
- Start-up assistance
- How to request a grant for setting up a business
- How to request a loan for setting up a business
- Financing innovation
- How to request a grant for setting up as a professional independent artist
- Financing exports
- Marketing support
- Industry bonus
- Investment support
- Environmental support
- Support for employers
- Support for companies in difficulties
- Art projects
- Loans for hospitality industry
Networks and publications
Professional networks
- Professional Bodies and Associations
- Junior Economic Chamber of Monaco
- Federations and trade unions in the Principality
- Société Monégasque des Eaux
- Société Monégasque de l'Électricité et du Gaz
- Monaco Telecom
- Bailiffs
- Chartered Accountant and Authorised accountant
- Notaries
- Legal Advisors
- Intellectual Property Consultants
- Lawyers
- Administration
- Welcome Office
- Utilities
- Proposing special offers for Government staff
- Professional networks
- Monaco Economic Board
- Professional code of ethics for civil servants and other government officials in their dealings with citizens
- Monaco Association for Financial Activities
- La Poste Monaco
- Professions in Monaco
Covid-19
Economic recovery
- General information
- Provisions relating to business premises
- Measures relating to employees
- General information
- General information
- How to request a subsidy for the renovation of commercial premises
- General information
- Introduction of Total Temporary Layoff
- Practical guide to support economic recovery
- How to obtain assistance from the Blue Fund
- How to apply for a window renovation subsidy
- How to request a grant for alterations to an apartment
- Possibility of offering gift vouchers to spend in the Principality’s shops and restaurants
- How to apply for Partial Exemption from Employers’ Contributions
- Introduction of home working
- How to become a partner
- Financial support for the purchase of small appliances and fixtures intended to reduce energy consumption
- How to request a subsidy to create a dustbin storage area or upgrade such an area to meet current standards
- Free use of Monaco public car parks with a purchase
- How to make an application to the Economic Recovery Support Commission (CARE)
- Registering for digital workshops
- Call for exemplary renovation projects
- How to apply for a grant for the restoration of notable buildings
- Introduction of vouchers for travel around the Principality with Taxis de Monaco
- Monaco Social Security Funds
- How to obtain a subsidy for buying a clean energy vehicle
- Demander l'aide aux Commerces et Restaurants Engagés
- Restaurant vouchers
- How to apply for support for sporting and cultural associations
- Practical guide to support Economic Recovery
- Assistance to businesses
- Blue Fund
- Employment
- Red and White Fund
- Green Fund
- White Fund
Covid-19 practical information
- General information
- Procedure to follow when an employee is identified as COVID-19 positive at a company
- How to purchase masks for your employees
- The Office of Occupational Medicine
- Regulations by activity
- Employment
- Health measures
- Ministerial Decisions
- Health and prevention guides by activity
- Temporary travel regulations
- Cultural Activities and Congress-Related Activities
- How to declare Total Temporary Layoff
- Receiving the public: temporary regulations
- Procedure to follow when an employee is identified as COVID-19 positive at a company
- Procedure for people returning from a stay outside the Principality
- Shops and Shopping Centres
- Gaming venues
- Construction activities: health safety measures - Covid-19
- Playing sport
- Transport and postal services
- Restaurants and bars
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