The export partners
The reform of the national support system for the internationalization of companies aims in coordination and making best use of eachone competences, in order to find the appropriate solution for a given problem!
The technical public support
CCI of FRANCE : gateway of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry; federates and livens up the whole network of the French CCIs.
CCI INTERNATIONAL AQUITAINE : gather the international departments of all the CCIs of the Aquitaine region. Central interlocutor for the identification, the advice and the individual support. Real front door for the PME/PMI, assures the contact with all the other partners.
UBIFRANCE (French Agency for the international development of companies) : proposes a complete range of services facilitating the prospecting, the development, the setting-up on the appropriate destinations. Manages also the V.I.E. solution (International Volunteer in a company).
UCCIFE : implanted in 77 countries, the French CCIs abroad represent the first private network of french companies in the world; they offer services comparable to those of UBIFRANCE, with a particular accent on the setting-up abroad and the animation of the french community at place.
OSCI : professionals of export having developed geographical and/or sectorial skills.
EEN : official network of the European Commission of support for PME/PMI; has various fields of intervention : contracts, regulations, financing, commercial and technical partnerships...
CCEF : these professionals acting on international scale are appointed by inter-ministerial order. They assure their mission voluntarily in favour of companies, with the aim of developping the French presence in the world.
DIRECCTE : includes the sites Regional Offices of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Work and Employment; amoung others objectives, mutualizes all the means for development of companies and employment.
CUSTOMS : partner who informs, directs the company and helps it to optimize the export and import procedures.
The financial public support
AQUITAINE REGIONAL COUNCIL : financial partner of the international development, the Regional Council supports companies through two measures : "Pass'Export" and "Strategy Export"
COFACE : manages for the government a wide range of guarantees; encourages in particular the export development of companies via two procedures : "Prospection Insurance" and "A3P"...
- Assurance prospection
- Glossaire des dépenses AP
- A3P (first steps in export)
- glossaire des dépenses A3P
OSEO : public institution which develops financing activities and loans guaranties, in partnership with banks, in particular the PPE (loan for export)
Look also at :
http://www.bpifrance.fr
BPI FRANCE : recently created, includes all the regional and national partners and proposes an international personalized support, in particular an easier and more legible access to financial operations dedicated to export.