The BPCC's Transport, Logistics & Infrastructure policy group met at the British Embassy on 19 February 2016 to discuss the current EU-funded programme to roll out a modern network of transport infrastructure across Poland. Around €27.4 billion has been earmarked for spending on infrastructure and environmental protection by 2023.
The event took place on 23 February 2016.
From 1 July this year, companies employing 250 or more full-time employees or turn over more than €50m will be obliged to use the new Standard Audit File for Tax when completing their returns.
The BPCC’s Manufacturing Industries group met in the UK for the this first time – appropriately in Birmingham – the manufacturing heart of Britain.
The Polish Entrepreneurial Contribution to the British Economy was the subject of a meeting at the House of Commons on 4 February 2016.
Scotland’s national poet was honoured in Warsaw – much as he is around the whole world – with a Burns Night event organised by the BPCC.
At a joint meeting of the BPCC's Tax & Finance and TMT policy groups, the subject of risk – and how to manage it – was discussed by a panel of experts. The event was held at the British Embassy on 25 January 2016 and was aimed at BPCC members and their clients/potential clients.
BPCC Kraków members discuss the issue with legal and business safety specialists.
Last month, Poland’s inward investment agency PAIiIZ published a report Foreign Business Has Taken Root in Poland. The report presents the results of an investment climate survey carried out in collaboration with Grant Thornton and HSBC Bank Polska.
New members of the BPCC were invited to take part in the first of this year's BPCC Speed Business networking events, which took place on 19 January 2016.
It has become a tradition that the BPCC joins forces with the Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce to organise a joint New Year’s event in Krakow. 2016 was ushered in with a cocktail party held in the basement of the atmospheric Piano Rouge, in the city’s history market square.
