Investment guides

Tools, information and guided paths to start and develop your investment in Campania

This section of the portal is designed to accompany investors in the first steps of their investment journey in Campania, providing clear, reliable and results-oriented guidance.

Start your business

An investor wishing to start a business in Italy should first of all assess the corporate form most suitable for their business. This choice depends on the nature of the activity to be carried out (production and/or marketing, service provision or promotional and representative activities) as well as on the economic resources available for the investment.

Subsidiary

A subsidiary is an independent legal entity under Italian law, wholly owned or partially held by the foreign parent company. A foreign investor setting up a subsidiary in Italy can choose from any of the legal forms provided by the Italian Civil Code.

Branch

Unlike a subsidiary, which has its own legal personality, a branch operates as an extension of the parent company. The branch retains responsibility for its own operations, but the branch's profits are taxed in the country in which the activity is carried out.

Representative office

A representative office does not have its own legal personality separate from the foreign parent company and may be engaged exclusively in marketing or other non-commercial activities.

Register your business

In Italy, all the procedures required to register a business can be carried out online through a single procedure: the Single Notification (Comunicazione Unica).

With a single submission, a company registers with:

the Business Register;
the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate);
INPS (National Social Security Institute);
INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work);
any SCIA (Certified Notification of Commencement of Activity) for the SUAP (One-Stop Shop for Productive Activities).

Go to the Single Notification

SUAP One-Stop Shop

The offices of the One-Stop Shops for Productive Activities (SUAP) support businesses by providing a single digital channel for managing all the authorisations and licences needed to start an economic activity.

Through an integrated online procedure, the SUAPs coordinate the formalities relating to taxes and safety, environmental protection, pollution control and urban planning compliance, helping to reduce administrative fragmentation.

Digital One-Stop Shop for SEZs (S.U.O. ZES)

The S.U.O. ZES (the administrative procedural one-stop shop required for the creation, location, expansion or modification of production facilities in the ZES – Special Economic Zones – areas) Unica.

In addition to production aspects, there is an institutional and building-related interest in all transformations of the territory that support the investment.

Where provided for by law, the S.U.O. ZES also performs SUAP functions, centralising authorisations and formalities in order to reduce time and administrative fragmentation.