On May 29 to 31 more than 180 participants gathered for the annual event of the French DSA organized for the first time in Brussels, to give it a European focus. Representation from other European DSA were present, Belgian of course but also form Switzerland, Luxembourg and Italy with a workshop dedicated to those markets.Mixture of plenary sessions, workshops and networking, one highlight of the event was the introduction by the French Ministry of Employment of a 35 page brochure presenting the direct selling industry in France on the basis of an 18 months study carried out by two consumer research institutes and paid for by the State. This is a wonderful official recognition step with very positive messages about growth in the industry and some suggestions for further actions. In addition to that brochure a 4 pager providing the economical facts of the industry was also created by on of the research institutes. Both documents are extremely valuable and can make companies and sellers proud of the industry they belong to. They estimated the French direct selling market at above 5 billion dollars.During the event, an agreement was also signed with the second larger organization helping people find a job as a strengthening of the already existing agreement to support the creation of 100 thousands job in the direct selling industry over three years, which is well on track