After a one-year gestation period, the European Union Business Forum in Ethiopia (EUBFE) was formally launched on May 7th, 2012, in the presence of more than 100 European companies operating in Ethiopia, representatives of numerous diplomatic representations as well as high-level staff from the Ethiopian Revenue & Customs Authority (ERCA) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The EUBFE was set-up in response to the need for both a platform for networking and information exchange between EU businesses and a systematic dialogue with the Ethiopian authorities. The EUBFE operated under the umbrella of the EU Delegation to Ethiopia.