Kilka dni temu przedstawiciele województwa pomorskiego przybyli do Holandii w celu spotkania się z przedsiębiorcami holenderskimi.
Województwo pomorskie stara się o holenderskie inwestycje i to nie tylko wśród przedsiębiorców holenderskich lecz również wśród polskich licząc na to, że polscy przedsiębiorcy są „najlepszymi ambasadorami Polski na ziemi holenderskiej”.
Wieczorem dnia 25 kwietnia w Wydziale Promocji Handlu i Inwestycji Ambasady RP (www.wehhaga.nl) w Hadze odbyło się spotkanie z Polonią biznesową. Podczas spotkania była okazja do przedyskutowania możliwości i korzyści inwestowania w prezentowanym województwie.
W delegacji pomorskiej byli Pan Mieczysław Struk Wicemarszałek Województwa Pomorskiego, jak również towarzyszące osoby z Kierownictwa Urzędu Marszałkowskiego w Gdańsku w osobach Pana Dyr. Jana Szymańskiego, Pana Dyr. Włodzimierza Szordykowskiego oraz Pani Ewy Jagodzińskiej. Udział wzięli również - Pan Julian Skelnik Wiceprezes Portu Morskiego w Gdańsku, Pani Monika Konikowska-Wójcik Dyr. Zespołu Prawnego PARP oraz Pan Dyr. Mariusz Mika z Departamentu Informacji Gospodarczej PAIiIZ (www.paiz.gov.pl).
Trzy prezentacje zatutułowane „Perspektywy rozwojowe Województwa Pomorskiego w latach 2008–2013 , rozwój współpracy międzynarodowej”, „Planowane inwestycje oraz wizja rozwoju Portu Gdańsk” i „Polska - atrakcyjny partner do inwestowania” wprowadziły uczestników w temat.
Porządek spotkania:
18.30 rejestracja uczestników, kawa, herbata;
19.00 rozpoczęcie spotkania, tematyka:
Pan Mieczysław Struk, Wicemarszałek Województwa Pomorskiego w Gdańsku, Prezentacja: „Perspektywy rozwojowe Województwa Pomorskiego w latach 2008–2013 , rozwój współpracy międzynarodowej” - 25 minut;
Pan Julian Skelnik, Wiceprezes Portu Gdańskiego, Prezentacja: „Planowane inwestycje oraz wizja rozwoju Portu Gdańsk” - 15 minut;
Pan Mariusz Mika, Wicedyrektor Departamentu Informacji Gospodarczej PAIiIZ, Prezentacja: Polska - atrakcyjny partner do inwestowania” - 10 minut;
19.50 Recepcja i networking;
21.30 Zakończenie spotkania.
Poniżej załączamy kilka fotek z tego spotkania. Więcej fotografii w Archiwum (tutaj na fotkach). Zapraszamy!
Na stronie internetowej PAIiIZ (www.paiz.gov.pl) jest wiele ciekawych informacji na temat inwestowania w Polsce.
[ENG] On the PAIiIZ website (www.paiz.gov.pl) you can find a lot of information about investing in Poland.
Here is an example of news from PAIiIZ website - an interview with Sławomir Skrzypek, President of National Bank of Poland (NBP):
Why is it worth investing in Poland?
Poland is a democratic country with a stable market economy; it’s an EU member and a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Membership of these organisations provides a guarantee of adherence to the standards required by foreign direct investors (FDI), which is essential for investors to undertake the risks involved when investing significant sums, into a particular economy.
Poland has regulated the statutes relating to FDI, which are similar to those that are binding in countries that are the main exporters of capital, which favours decision making relating to the investments in such a country. The government has reached agreements relating to the protection and support of foreign investments with many countries; including the major exporters of capital; similarly agreements have been reached with many countries to avoid double taxation. International standards of accounting have been implemented, which eases the analysis of accounts on an international scale. Well known auditing companies also operate in Poland and the financial system is well regulated, working efficiently. The banks offer modern products and the quality of their activities is the same as in well developed nations.
The Polish economy has for many years been stable and is on a course of rapid development. By locating in Poland an investor can make use of this growth.
Poland has a well qualified work force and a great intellectual potential. The last wave of emigration has shown that the Polish work force is very mobile. The research conducted allows us to assume that a large number of the current economic émigrés, intend in the not to distant future to return to the country, which will raise the workforce’s level of qualifications.
In comparison with the new EU member states, Poland has a large internal market that’s characterised by differed demand, when compared to the heavily industrialised nations.
Furthermore - Poland has a favourable economic location, from which business activities directed towards the neighbouring Eastern European countries can be conducted.
Which economic reforms need to be introduced in order to increase the attractiveness for investment in Poland?
The narrow spectrum of attractiveness for investments in Poland is worse - when compared to the countries with which Poland is directly competing for foreign investments (the Czech Rep., Slovakia and Hungary) - the road infrastructure (the only recently developing motorway network, the still unsatisfactory state of the express routes), railways (the lack of fast rail routes) and fairly high prices of telecommunications services.
Another narrow spectrum is the inadequate development of technical infrastructures in the fields of water supplies, sewers and electrical energy in many areas - it’s not enough to offer investors undeveloped (an absence of utilities) sites for investment, even for one symbolic Polish zloty. It’s essential to prepare plots for the needs of an investor (e.g. production of so-called business Parks).
What is particularly important for encouraging foreign investors is improvement of the functional process of the institutions relating to the economic entities. The procedures to register a firm should be clear and straightforward and it’s essential to speed up the process of the courts relating to registrations, property matters and law. There should be a goal of decreasing the discretionary powers of bureaucrats, which would limit the potential for corruption. To achieve this goal it seems legal reforms are essential so that the bureaucrat is no longer able to interpret the law in a wide ranging manner.
There is a pleasing average level of education of Poland’s workforce. However, if the government’s intention is to realise the Lisbon Strategy and to establish a society built upon knowledge, it would seem essential to release significantly greater funds for education and the creation of education systems and training the workers with qualifications for work on modern technological processes. The alternative is that Poland will lose the significant attractiveness it has today, which is its well qualified workforce. This is so that in the future Poland will be able to attract the most desirable type of investments, implementing the most modern industrial technology.
Consequently Poland should be promoted in the international arena - this promotion should be based on an image of Poland as a reliable, stable market economy, cooperating in the international arena with potential investors, with a large internal market and domestic demand. For this promotion it would be advisable to include figures that have some authority in international business circles.
What are the perspectives for development of the Polish economy over the next five years?
Over the years 2008-2009 the rate of economic growth in Poland will probably be lower than for 2006-2007, but the rate of the slowdown will to a large extent be dependant upon how strong and long lasting the effects of the US recession on the global economy, will be. In many forecasts, including the latest IMF report on the subject of the European economy, it’s estimated that the slowdown in the Central and Eastern European economy, will be on a smaller scale than that on the American economy and the Euro Zone. According to the NBP’s latest macro-economic projections in February 2008, the rate of economic growth should maintain itself at a level of app. 5% and will remain relatively high.
In the medium term it may be assumed that the Polish economy will develop quite quickly and in a balanced manner. This is supported by strong foundations: the intensive modernisation of manufacturing industry and the infrastructure with the assistance of national and international investments, the large numbers of newly created workplaces and the fall in unemployment, together with the maintenance of macroeconomic stability; particularly reflected against the background of other countries in the region.
The NBP forecasts that a significant influence on the growth of GDP will be made by the country’s investment demand and consumption, against a weakening share of net exports in the formation of GDP. In 2008 we can expect a lowering of the investment dynamic when compared to today’s record levels, to a large extent as a result of the global economy’s economic slowdown, the increases in energy prices and increases in the prices of credit - due to the tightening of monetary policies. However, if the global slowdown turns out to be temporary, in later years the investment dynamic is expected to be at a level above that of the increase in GDP. The high activity level of national industries will be supported by the inflow of FDI, capital from the EU funds and from transfers of foreign incomes from work abroad. It must be emphasised that the high investment dynamic will increase the rate of future GDP growth: on one hand, investments lead to greater efficiency of labour, on the other - as shown by the NBP research regarding FDI - it leads to a modernisation and increases in the levels of innovativeness in the economy.
February’s NBP forecasts indicate that inflation, i.e. the rate of growth of the CPI, will remain above the inflation target to the end of the projection’s horizon, from mid 2008, it will steadily decrease and in 2010 return to the band of permissible deviations from the inflationary target. Two facts must be drawn attention to: firstly, the current increase in inflation and the forecasted inflation rate, to a large extent emerge from changes in the global prices of food and fuel, resulting from changes in supply and also from changers in regulatory prices particularly of electrical energy. Secondly, recently a stronger than anticipated strengthening of the exchange rate has occurred - even though there have been uncertainties on the global money markets. The appreciation of the zloty (PLN) is a factor that lowers inflationary pressure; it’s possible that inflation could return to the band of permissible deviations from the inflationary target by 2009.
In order to maintain rapid economic growth in the long term, it’s essential to carry out a series of structural reforms and to increase the functional effectiveness of the economy. Among these reforms are specifically: the de-monopolisation of infrastructure sectors, reforms to activate the labour market together with an appropriate migration policy and also financial reforms that increase budgetary discipline. Of particular importance are the creations of favourable factors for foreign investors, through the removal of institutional barriers for FDI.
28.04.2008 for more info see www.paiz.gov.pl
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