Who we are

The Union of Craftsmen and Small Industries – Confartigianato di Belluno has worked alongside artisans and small enterprises since 1955 and is the best representative Association operating in the province. Its objectives are:

• To be a collective expression of values and interests

• Represent businesses and different fields

• Encourage competition in the market

• Stimulate the economic development and craft technology of Belluno and small enterprise

• Promote associations and collaborative support between businesses

• Participate in the planning of economic projects for the province

At the provincial headquarters in Belluno and at the offices in Agordo, Caprile, Feltre, Pieve di Cadore, S. Stefano di Cadore, Cortina d'Ampezzo and Pieve d'Alpago, the Association offers assistance, consultation and services to their business associates.

With representatives present in Commissione provinciale per l'Artigianato (the provincial Commission for craftsmanship), on the statuary body of the Chamber of Commerce for Belluno and of Inps, not to mention numerous committees, commissions, governing bodies of societies and agencies on a regional and provincial level.

The Union is a free impartial political trade union organisation, on a non-profit basis. The activity is organised into "group councils" and "communal craftsmanship".

Since 2002, the Union – the first association of its field in the province to embrace this choice –has made use of an Ethical Code. Eleven groups – those which have the most direct contact with the private sector - have adopted a code of ethics for artisan craft activities, approved also by the Consumer Associations Adiconsum, Adoc and Federconsumatori.

Over the years, the Union of Artisans and Small Business has given life to numerous associated systems: Finimpresa cooperative society, Feinar, Centro Consorzi, Consorzio Artigiano Tutela Ambiente, Dimensione Impresa s.r.l., Caaf-Confartigianato and syndicates for production zones, all of which provide solutions for business enterprises. These organisations have been created to offer services adapted for the businesses and all together constitute the Associative Syndicate.

THE REPRESENTATION OF CONFARTIGIANATO

In the Veneto

Confartigianato of the Veneto is the decentralised body of Confartigianato in the Veneto region, to whom the seven provincial associations refer. It is, in turn, an organisation of trade union character, impartial and non profit, of which, the ultimate objective is to safeguard the interests of the artisan division of the Veneto and of small or medium enterprises and the promotion of their economic development, social and technical. Confartigianato of the Veneto is the regional framework most representative of the world of craftsmanship in the Veneto. It ensures connections with the Region, with regional institutions, with organisations in the entrepreneurial world and work in the Veneto

In Italy

Confartigianato is an autonomous and impartial organisation, founded on the principal of free adhesion and open to all geographical, sectorial and cultural factors of Italian craftsmanship. It is a principal representative organisation within the sector, which, since 1946 has been assigned tasks within the productive universe of craftsmen.

Confartigianato is present in the CNEL, the constitutional organisation that gathers together the principal expressions of the world of work, and participates in the planning process that in Italy accompanies the act of the Executive in the matter of economics and social politics.

Moreover, Confartigianato is present in all 102 Italian Chambers of Commerce, Artigiancassa, INPS, ICE, the most important trade fairs and in certain Universities.

In Europe

Confartigianato is part of UEAPME (Unione Europea dell’Artigianato e delle Piccole e Medie Imprese – the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), which represents, in Europe, the interests of craftsmen and small and medium enterprises of the European Union and countries which are candidates to join the EU. It is an impartial, non profit organisation. Furthermore, Confartigianato, has its own representative office in Brussels, with officers that maintain links with the organisations of the European Union.