This is our assignment

We provide services to match the matters that business owners care about. These are our statutory tasks:

1. Administering the Business Register

Administering and monitoring the Business Register (Handelsregister in Dutch) to ensure reliable information is our core business. All businesses and legal entities in the Netherlands are registered in the digital database. This enables entrepreneurs to find out with whom exactly they are doing business. In addition, the public authorities and other organisations can request business information from the Business Register, search for business partners or validate any information received.

2. Providing information

Entrepreneurs can contact us for expert advice and customised information on the main entrepreneurial topics – from starting or ending your own business to financing, laws, and regulations. We distribute information digitally through our website, online meetings, and newsletters. And individually through our business advisers.

3. Issuing export documents

Exporters regularly need documents for exporting their products. These include documents of origin and legalisations. Documents of origin have a trade policy purpose (Certificates of Origin) or a financial purpose (EUR.1 certificates). KVK assesses and confirms the origin of the products on the certificate application. With legalisations, KVK confirms who signed a trade document.

4. Promoting innovation

Gathering ideas, monitoring trends, innovating: how do entrepreneurs stay alert? KVK advises and supports entrepreneurs in developing and implementing innovations. We organise projects such as the SME Innovation Top 100 and KVK Hackathons to promote innovation in the Netherlands in collaboration with entrepreneurs, public authorities, and knowledge institutions.

5. Boosting the regional economy

In the Netherlands, there are many regional and urban economic and innovation boards, valleys, and ports. We conduct projects that help cluster and bring together these widespread initiatives to achieve a greater impact. Where possible, we ensure proper embedding, coordination, and alignment between the regional and national programmes. In that way, we boost the local economy and help resolve issues in the region.

6. Managing the Ondernemerspleinen

KVK Ondernemersplein is the meeting point for entrepreneurs in the region. This is where they can find all collaborative partners, public authorities, education providers, and intermediary services under one roof. Besides attending themed workshops and network meetings, entrepreneurs can also make an appointment here for customised advice. These efforts enable us to further assist entrepreneurs in potentially growing their business. KVK Ondernemerspleinen are located in Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Groningen and Rotterdam.

7. Facilitating Business.gov.nl

Business.gov.nl provides all the Dutch government information that entrepreneurs need to do business, online and in English: taxes, laws, subsidies, regulations. This avoids time-consuming searches for information and gives entrepreneurs more time to concentrate on their business. Business.gov.nl is the English-language counterpart of Digitaal Ondernemersplein. KVK facilitates Digitaal Ondernemersplein and Business.gov.nl by assignment from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Partners include the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Netherlands Tax Administration, and KVK itself.