Safe Harbour for Good Investments
Objectively seen, Serbia has never had a better and more stimulating environment both for doing business as well as for investing. Investors and buyers of our products see Serbia today as a macroeconomically and politically stable country, committed to the EU integration process, with a functional infrastructure on major European corridors, improved regulatory framework, clear regulations and simplified procedures, and improved ratings on international lists that measure conditions for doing business.
Our offer for investors includes a serious package of financial incentives – from government subsidies, tax and customs duty benefits, to lower operating costs than at other competing locations.
What is particularly important and what the investors ask first is that Serbia has a competitive, trained, qualified workforce and worldrenowned experts and engineers. It also has local companies, reliable partners and suppliers of global companies, capable of meeting the standards of the most complex markets and most demanding customers. Free trade agreements represent a special advantage. They allow manufacturers to export duty free not only in our region, but also to other markets worldwide with more than 1.3 billion consumers.
Aware of the limitations of small, national markets, we are working to build a common regional market with almost 20 million consumers – the Western Balkans Economic Area, without any barriers to regional and global business development. Six chambers of commerce gathered in one regional initiative – the Western Balkans 6 Chamber Investment Forum - are specially dedicated to achieving this goal. In this way, we provide a larger market to companies, but also contribute to the stability of the region, which is changing from an area of bad news and conflicts into a region of success, growth and development, common interests and common future.
Aware of the limitations of small, national markets, we are working to build a common regional market with almost 20 million consumers – the Western Balkans Economic Area, without any barriers to regional and global business development. Six chambers of commerce gathered in one regional initiative – the Western Balkans 6 Chamber Investment Forum - are specially dedicated to achieving this goal. In this way, we provide a larger market to companies, but also contribute to the stability of the region, which is changing from an area of bad news and conflicts into a region of success, growth and development, common interests and common future.
Serbia, in the center of the Western Balkans, is becoming more and more a regional hub for business operations of large, global corporations. The best recommendation for the international business community are exactly the foreign companies that are already operating successfully and profitably on the Serbian market and that are expanding their capacities. About 18,000 companies with majority foreign capital are registered and operating here today. In recent years, we have attracted more than a hundred investment projects per year, and up to 12 times higher volume of greenfield foreign direct investments than it is expected from the economy of this size, which has positioned us on the top of the List of the respectable Financial Times.
We also improve our investment performance and rating in the international business community by developing partnerships and good communication with investors. Those who come here can count on maximum support, both from the Serbian government, as well as from relevant state institutions and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, to make decisions on investments, as well as to prepare and realize the investment.
Welcome to Serbia, an economy worth investing in, a land of growing and open economy, with great investment and innovation potential, serious companies and quality products – a safe harbor for good investments.
We also improve our investment performance and rating in the international business community by developing partnerships and good communication with investors. Those who come here can count on maximum support, both from the Serbian government, as well as from relevant state institutions and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, to make decisions on investments, as well as to prepare and realize the investment.
Welcome to Serbia, an economy worth investing in, a land of growing and open economy, with great investment and innovation potential, serious companies and quality products – a safe harbor for good investments.
Marko Čadež
PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF SERBIA
