Pursuant to the Decree of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region of 28 November 2002, hub.brussels, the Brussels Agency for Entrepreneurship, reports annually to the Economic Coordination Council on the main difficulties encountered by businesses in applying administrative rules and practices. Since this decree was amended in 2015, the Minister for the Economy may forward this “list of needs” to the Government following its presentation to the Council. The 2024 edition follows on from the 2022 edition and will contribute to the Agile platform’s 2025-2026 work programme, which is responsible for formulating opinions aimed at simplifying regulations and administrative practices that may hinder economic transition.
A jointly agreed list designed to guide public policy
The draft list was presented to the Economic Coordination Council on 30 April 2024 and to Brupartners on 31 May 2024. The feedback received has enabled us to correct factual errors, clarify certain recommendations and remove a requirement for which the recommendations had already been implemented. The opinions of the Board members and the comments from Brupartners, received on 2 July 2024, are appended to the document; where they relate to a specific need, they are also included under that point. The list was then officially forwarded to the Government by the Minister for the Economy.
48 needs: continuity, new challenges and monitoring
The 2024 list comprises 48 needs: 20 needs that had already been identified – some of which have been updated or grouped into broader categories – and 28 that are new since 2022. It also monitors the previous needs listed: 8 have been resolved, 7 are in the process of being resolved, 15 were not raised on a recurring basis in 2022-2023, and 24 are carried forward to 2024, either in an updated form or incorporated into broader requirements. Some needs that are not currently listed may reappear in future editions. Finally, the unique context of the COVID-19 crisis partly explains the changes between the 2022 and 2024 lists: some needs linked to the health crisis have diminished, whilst older needs, which had temporarily become less apparent, have resurfaced.
