Western Balkans 6 Chamber Investment Forum
Acronym: WB6 CIF
General Information
Identification Code: 297325649956-77
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Entity Form: non-profit association
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 4/28/2023
Last Update: 4/27/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The main aim of WB6 CIF association is to provide a joint voice to the business community in the region, to facilitate inter-business contacts, to influence adoption or implementation of policy or legislation, or the decision-making processes and promote the region as one investment destination. WB6 CIF represents joint interests of WB6 business community in the process of adoption of EU aquis relevant for enlargement policies.
WB6 CIF represents around 350,000 companies, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises in its mission to open new opportunities for stronger networking of business communities within the region by removing the remaining obstacles to the development of the regional economic cooperation and improving business and investment climate in the markets of the WB region through adoption of new legislations or changing existing ones. WB6 CIF is the business community’s response to political processes in the region, which take place within the Berlin process as a (...)
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Enlargement
- International co-operation and development
Levels of Interest:
- european
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: • Some of the targeted legislative proposals and targeted policies are:
WB6 Enlargement policy
Stabilization and Association Agreements between EU and all WB6 economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo)
• Monitoring of the activities and maintaining communication with the officials and policy advisors within the DG NEAR, DG CONNECT, DG JUST, DG MOVE, DG ENERGY, DG ENVI; DG GROW, DG AGRI;
Communication Activities: •In 2020 WB6 CIF has, jointly with EC, established WB6 - EU Business Platform with aim to facilitate dialogue between EU policy makers and WB6 business community on how to leverage up European accession perspectives to create more opportunities for trade, investment and other forms of business cooperation between the two sides. The Platform also seeks to identify problems that businesses face either in cross-border activity or in the application of EU regulation and to influence the formulation or implementation of concrete policy or legislation, or the decision-making processes of the EU institutions policies and to suggest concrete solutions.
In the last 3 years 4 meetings of the Business Platform have been conducted and 2 additional, tailor-made meetings with local SMEs and EU decision makers on following topics:
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 of 31 January 2019 imposing definitive safeguard measures against imports of certain steel products;
EU Green Deal
Energy Taxation Directive and EU Single-Use Plastic Directive;
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) etc
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: 14, Piazza della Borsa
Post Code: 34100
City: Trieste
Country: ITALY
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EU Office
Address: 14, Piazza della Borsa
Post Code: 34100
City: Trieste
Country: ITALY
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 6
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 8
Members F T E: 1.100000023841858
Info Members: WB6 CIF is the association of 6 national chambers of commerce that have whose staff is supporting activities of our association.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Six national chambers of commerce from Western Balkans are founders of WB6 CIF association:
Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Albania www.uccial.gov.al
Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina https://komorabih.ba/
Kosovo Chamber of Commerce https://www.oek-kcc.org/
Chamber of Economy of Montenegro https://komora.me/en
Economic Chamber of North Macedonia https://www.mchamber.mk/
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia https://en.pks.rs/
Organisation Members: -