Belgium is to ease its rules on foreign travellers working in the country, its spokesman told the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) meeting in Miami.
Under its Limosa programme, Belgium had planned that any foreign traveller working five consecutive days in the country in one month must register.
But Karel Deridder, adviser general on Limosa, told the ACTE Global Education Conference that the period would be extended to seven days.
He added that Belgium also did not expect to begin assessing penalties for those who broke the rules until October.
Penalties under the scheme aiming to stop illegal workers in the country range from a heavy fine to imprisonment.
Mr Deridder was invited to the ACTE event after the Association asked that the penalties be put off until travel managers understood the scheme more clearly.
AirPlus reports 15% rise in business
AirPlus International, which provides business travel payments solutions, said its settlement volume rose in 2006 by 15% to £9.4bn.
It reported a pre-tax operating profit of £9m.
The main driver was an increase in business of 51% in international markets outside its traditional German home base.
AirPlus said one of the highlights of its year was the signing of a deal with China Merchants Bank last September which made it the first company providing travel managers with Chinese as well as international transaction data.
It also introduced new software in the UK with MasterCard which made its lodge card universally accepted.
Yael Klein, managing director of AirPlus, said: "We were able to make substantial gains in all markets and sectors in the last year.
"That means we have the ideal starting position for further growth and achieving our objective of becoming the preferred global provider of solutions for business travel payment and analysis within the next five years."
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