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Business Networks in Italy:

Union of Chambers of Commerce in Italy: http://www.unioncamere.it

Each region has a Chamber of Commerce. They are all linked together by the Union which offers services which include: quality checks for agricultural sector; environment; consultancy for companies, arbitration and conciliation services, information on taxes and rights; documents for abroad commerce, internationalisation, finance and credits, economic and statistic services, job training and orienteering, social responsibility for companies.

• Portal of the Chambers of Commerce in Italy: http:// www.cameradicommercio.it

The mission of Italian Chambers of Commerce consists in carrying out functions of general interest within the private business system. Each Chamber carries-out important function in the administrative area (the most important is “the business register”) offers enterprises a full range of services to facilitate market intelligence and skilled training, to stimulate companies and businesses in innovative efforts and to support business trade relations home and abroad.

National Confederation for the Craft Sector and Small and Medium Enterprises: http://www.cna.it

Is a general, national and unifying system representing craft businesses and their entrepreneurs, small and medium sized enterprises and related associations. The CNA system's purpose is promoting the typical values of entrepreneurship, labour and market economy in society, institutions, politics, and within the corporate world itself, by attempting harmoniously and fully to combine corporate interests and the general interests of Italian citizens and by actively participating in the development of enterprises and entrepreneurs.

• Association of Small and Medium Enterprises in Italy: http://www.assoindustria.it

Industrial association small and medium national enterprises, is a point of reference for the growth of the small and averages enterprises, mainly in the field of Italian productive sector, the hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs that form the basis of our economy are the centre help move national industrial activities representing a developing model that it has succeeded in Europe and in the United States.

• Association of Craftsmanship and Entrepreneurs of small enterprises: http://www.confartigianato.it

Confartigianato is an independent and non-party organisation, founded on the principle of free union and is open to all the areas, sectors and cultural members of Italian handicrafts.

• Italian Federation of the chemical industries: http:// www.federchimica.it

Federchimica is the abbreviated name of the Italian Federation of the chemical industry. Founded as the Italian Federation of Chemical Industry Associations in 1920, it became Aschimici in 1945 and was transformed into Federchimica in 1984.
At the present time 1.500 companies, with a total of 113.000 employees, are part of Federchimica. They are grouped into 19 Associations, which in turn are subdivided into 47 product groups. Federchimica is a member of Confindustria (General Confederation of the Italian Industry) and CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council). Federchimica, whose primary objectives are the coordination and the protection of the role of the Italian chemical industry as well as the promotion of its development capacity.


• National Federation of electronic and electric companies: http://www.anie.it/

The Federation ANIE, supporter with Confindustria, represents the electro-technical and electronic enterprises that operate in Italy. Part of the technological field highly and strongly globalized, it invests huge resources into research and development. Composed of 12 Associations, ANIE re-unites strategies that give important aid to the increase of Italy on the international markets. The Associations and Federation ANIE contribute to the development of the market of the electro-technical and electronic enterprises, operating in order to assure clear rules and guidlines. They favor the competitiveness of the Enterprises associated with reference to the various factors of production. They maintain the relationships with agencies and national and communitarian institutions to safeguard the interests of their field of work. They collaborate with prestigious Italian and international technical organisations.

Confederation of Entrepreneurs in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.confind.emr.it

Emilia-Romagna Confindustria, founded in 1972, is the main representative organization of the industrial enterprises of the region. The nine provincial Industrial Associations of the region are associates of Emilia-Romagna Confindustria. They are also linked with two associations: the Assopiastrelle - national Association of the ceramics producers, that it has center in Sassuolo (Modena), the Ance Emilia-Romagna - Association of building constructors of the region.

• Regional Union of small and medium enterprises in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.unionapi.it

The voice of small and medium sized industries in Emilia Romagna. Unionapi is a free association made up of the APIs - Associazioni Territoriali delle piccole e medie imprese dell'Emilia Romagna (Territorial Associations of the small and medium sized industries in Emilia Romagna). Over 3,500 businesses with about 80,000 employees are in the association. It concerns companies with a good earning power, with an average of 23 employees and a strong propensity for export: 55% are present in the foreign markets. Unionapi works in close collaboration with the Territorial Apis, which offer services to their associate companies and contribute to defining strategies and common objectives in every city. Unionapi intervenes directly on the topics that concern the whole of the regional production system. It represents the voice of the companies to the political bodies, and to the economic and institutional bodies of the Region. Unionapi is thus a point of reference for all those interlocutors who wish have relations with the small and medium sized industries of Emilia Romagna.

Confederation for the Craft Sector and Small and Medium Enterprises in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.er.cna.it

The National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized businesses is the VOICE of the handicraft industry, of small and medium sized firms and specialised workers. It represents and safeguards the interests of Provincial and Sectorial Associations and of its entire membership, with public and private institutions, Public Administration, and with regional political, social and economic organizations. The Emilia Romagna Regional CNA Federation was set up by Provincial Associations, and together with the National Sectorial Associations and all other Regional Federations, is part of the system of the National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized businesses. The function of the Emilia Romagna CNA is to provide integration among the Provincial Associations. It defines regional financial policy, promotes industrial relations and drafts industrial agreements.

• Association of cooperatives in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.emilia-romagna.legacoop.it

It is a national league of cooperatives. The association promotes the activities and the start up of cooperatives and new businesses.

• Confederation of cooperatives in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.confcooperative-er.it

Gives information on laws, news, ideas, social aspects, publications and who they cooperate with.

Association for commerce, tourism and services in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.confcommercio-er.it

The Confcommercio Emilia Romagna is the most important Regional Association of Commerce, Tourism and Services: it is linked with approximately 65 000 enterprises which are run by emiliano inhabitants of Romagna. The Confcommercio Emilia Romagna is found in 16 Regional Organisations of the same category, 11 Territorial Associations and 100 delegates in the area: in total an system of approximately 1 200 people are assigned.

• Union of Chambers of Commerce in Emilia Romagna: http:// www.rer.camcom.it

The regional Union of the Chambers of Commerce of the Emilia-Romagna is the association of the nine Chambers of Commerce of the region (Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia and Rimini); it carries out functions of address, representation and coordination of a system that employs approximately 850 people, and invests beyond 118 million Euros for development and the economy. Objectives of Unioncamere Emilia-Romagna is to promote the consolidation of the Chambers of Commerce of the region, and to value the contribution given to the increase of our economy.

• Chamber of Commerce in Bologna: http:// www.bo.camcom.it

The Chamber of Commerce of Bologna offers enterprises the possibility to develop their activities in Italy and around the world. The objective of the services offered is always to be able to converse with the enterprises and the entrepreneurial organisations for the balanced increase of the provincial economy. The Chamber of Commerce of Bologna is therefore the “house of the Bologna enterprises” and is the dedicated institution to guarantee protection of the market and public faith and carries out itself the transactions it trades with them to protect enterprises, consumers and workers.

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