BUSINESS COOPERATION Bulgaria Turkey

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BUSINESS COOPERATION Bulgaria - Turkey

• Bulgaria Turkey business forum
• 15 April 2009

Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Contents

• Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at a
  glance
• BCCI helping the business
• Reaction to the global crises
• Cooperation with partners in Turkey
• Bilateral Trade
• Perspective sectors for economic cooperation
• Urgent matters
• BCCI address

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BCCI at a glance

• more than 50 000 members
• 28 regional chambers
• 90 sectorial / branch chambers
• good contact with the Government
• open doors policy

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BCCI helping the business

• Promotion of the international economic
  relations
• Joined activities with foreign partners
• Equal services for Bulgarian and foreign
  companies
• Support to the business through lobbying
  activities

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BCCI reaction to the crises

• Proposals for
• Alleviation of the administrative regulation
• Improvement of the tax regulation
• Transparent spending of the budget surplus
• Equalization of the insurance rights and
  obligations of the civil servants
• Balancing of the labour relations
• Transparency and simplification of the public
  procurement procedure under the public
  procurement act
• Improvement of the connection between the higher
  education and the entrepreneurships needs
• Enhancing the assimilability of the resources
  from the European funds

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Cooperation with Partners - I

• TOBB
• Bilateral relations /business forums, joined
  meetings, joined lobbying activities/
• Multilateral relations /Association of the Balkan
  Chambers, Black Sea Economic Cooperation,
  Eurochambres/
• DEIK
• Joined Business council Bulgaria Turkey
• Joined efforts for the enhancing of the bilateral
  trade and investments
• Four commissions tourism, agriculture,
  construction and SMEs cooperation

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Cooperation with Partners - II

• CCIs in Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, Edrine etc.
• Turkish-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry
• Commercial Department of the Embassy of the
  Republic of Turkey in Sofia

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Turnover Bulgaria - Turkey
Source Ministry of Economy and Energy
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Main export and import items 2008
Import from Turkey
Building structures
Wires and cables
Aluminium profiles
Transport vehicles
Metal rods and sheets
 
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Perspectives in the bilateral economic relations

• Infrastructure projects
• Development of new energy sources
• Spare parts for cars
• Textile
• Environmental industry
• Agriculture
• Tourism
• Trade

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Urgent matters

• prioritization of public projects in Bulgaria
  and Turkey
• development and improvement of the
  infrastructure that links Bulgaria and Turkey
  /highway, railroad/
• synchronized work in the reconstruction of the
  border crossing points
• developing of joined, coordinated control at the
  borders
• decreasing of corruption
• minimizing the import-export of low quality and
  fake-marked products

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• Thank you!
• Tsvetan Simeonov, Vice President
• Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, 9, Iskar Str.
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail bcci_at_bcci.bg
• Web www.bcci.bg