The Stability Pact’s Investment Compact for South Eastern Europe (South East Europe Compact for Reform, Investment, Integrity and Growth) is designed to improve the investment climate and encourage private sector development in South East Europe

This initiative is co-chaired by Austria, Serbia and OECD. In addition, the OECD provides day-to-day management of the initiative through a small programme management unit. The Investment Compact divides its activities into two main areas (i) FDI policy and promotion and (ii) SME development and uses regional co-operation as a driving force for reform implementation.

The programme focuses on four areas:

• Evaluation and monitoring of progress in investment reform, including concrete case studies on how to improve
• Support in implementation of investment reform through coaching and peer review
• Support in structuring     dialogue between public and private sector through the Regional Network of Foreign Investors Councils, the Regional White Book and other business associations
• Political support for example through an Annual Ministerial Conference focused on a specific theme with regard to investment reform

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• Brochure: Designing the Future
  • MAKING INVESTMENT HAPPEN FOR EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE

Documents

2007

• Investment Compact Programme for 2007, Paris - April 2007
• Investment Compact Activity Report, Paris - April 2007
  
• ''Enterprise Policy - Development in the Western Balkans"

  Report on the Implementation of the European Charter for Small Enterprises in Western Balkans 2007

2006

• Press Release: South East Europe should do more to attract Foreign Investment, 14 November 2006

• Working Table II Meeting in Bucharest, Regional Table, 15-16 November 2006:

  • Background Information
    
    

• Investment Reform Index
  "Progress in Policy Reforms to Improve the Investment Climate in South East Europe"
  
  

• Brochure: Designing the Future
  • MAKING INVESTMENT HAPPEN FOR EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE
• Progress in Investment Reform    [Presentation; November 2006] 
• Activity report, November 2006
• Activity Report, May 2006
• 16th meeting of the Investment Compact Project Team Meeting, 9-10 November 2006
• 15th Meeting of the Investment Compact Project Team, 11-12 May Rome
  
  
• White Book 2006 , published by the Foreign Investors Council in Serbia

2005

• 14th Meeting of the Investment Compact Project Team, 4 November 2005, Paris

Ministerial Meetings

• Vienna 27 June 2006, Statement
• Sofia, 10 June 2005, Statement
• Vienna, 9 July 2004, Statement
• Vienna, 11 July, 2003, Ministerial Declaration
• Zagreb, 31 May, 2002, Ministerial Declaration

Investment Related Events/Conference/Workshop/Seminars

• Regional Table in Bucharest, 15-16 November 2006
  • Activity report, November 2006
• Regional Table in Belgrade, 29-30 May 2006
  • Activity Report, May 2006
• Regional Table in Prague, 14-16 November 2005
  • Activity Report, November 2005
• Regional Table in Sofia, 17-19 May 2005
  • Activity Report, January – May 2005

Newsletters

Selected publications

• Investment Compact for South East Europe – Designing the Future, brochure, November 2005
• The Business Registration Process in South East Europe – A Peer Review, April 2005
• Investment Guides for Southeast Europe, Fifth edition, 2005
• Tax Policy Assessment and Design in Support of Direct Investment: A Study of Countries in South East Europe, April 2003
• White Book of the Regional Network of Foreign Investors Councils in South East Europe (2004)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Albania (2004)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2005)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Bulgaria (2005)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Croatia (2005)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of FYR of Macedonia (2003)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Moldova (2003)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Romania (2005)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Serbia (2005)
• Enterprise Policy Performance
  • Assessment of Montenegro (2003)

Contacts

Dragan Stojovic
Expert WT II
Phone: +32 2 401 8744
Fax:      +32 2 401 7712
E-mail:dragan.stojovic@stabilitypact.org

Mr. Manfred Schekulin
Co-Chairman
Director, Export and Investment Policy, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, Austria
Stubenring 1 - 1011 Vienna / Austria
Tel.: +43 (1) 711 00 51 80
Fax: +43 (1) 715 96 51
E-mail: manfred.schekulin@bmwa.gv.at

Mr. Vlatko Sekulovic
Co-Chairman
State Secretary, Ministry of International Economic Relations, Serbia
Tel: +38 111 3617 583
Fax: +38 11 36 17 7628
vsekulovic@mier.sr.gov.yu

Mr. Rainer Geiger
Deputy Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
Tel: +33 (1) 45.24.97.03
Fax: +33 (1) 45.24.91.51
Rainer.Geiger@oecd.org

Mr. Anthony O'Sullivan
Head, Investment Compact, OECD
Tel: +33 (1) 45 24 97 01
Fax: +33 (1) 45 24 93 35
anthony.osullivan@oecd.org