Définition
The craft industry includes natural or legal persons having more than 10 employees and exercising as their principal or secondary activity an independent professional activity which involves production, transformation, repair of handicrafts or handicraft service provisions. Relevant activities are listed by decree in Council of State.
Remarque
There is no European definition of crafts companies; in its recommendation of 3 April 1996 on the definition of SMEs (96280/EC), the European Commission specifies that crafts companies "shall continue to be defined at national level because of their specific nature".