The Association of Serbian Businessmen in Austria (USPA) met in the premises of the Association of Serbian Clubs in Vienna, noting the importance of networking and cooperation of entrepreneurs of Serbian origin both within Austria and with homeland businessmen.<\/p>\n
Borislav Kapetanovi\u0107 said that the Association had been founded eight years ago, but only in recent years started achieving its priority goal, namely to expand, that is, to network as many Serbian entrepreneurs as possible in Austria.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Networking for the purpose of business cooperation, both with businessmen in Austria and with those in the homeland \u2013 he explained.<\/p>\n
Kapetanovi\u0107 stated that the Association organized regular meetings, attended not only by members but also by all the interested in order to meet others.<\/p>\n
One company hosts each meeting, and this time it was the company Ekobox from Graz.<\/p>\n
Milan Gaji\u0107 conveyed that cooperation had been established with a Viennese business agency able to offer important advice to Serbian entrepreneurs. As he added, subsidies could be an important topic, bearing in mind that, no matter how large their experience, businessmen were often unaware of all the possibilities to obtain subsidies from the government.<\/p>\n
In addition to business networking, the Austrian Association of Serbian Businessmen is also engaged in humanitarian work, and Igor Miketi\u0107 announced the decision to financially support the construction of a church in Kufstein.<\/p>\n
\u2013 We will appeal to all Serbian businessmen to involve in helping the construction of the temple and for everyone to contribute as much as they can \u2013 said Miketi\u0107.<\/p>\n
Bojan Ranki\u0107 from Ekoboks presented his company. He said that this company with headquarters in Graz had 240 employees in Serbia and BiH and plants in Srebrenica and Brus, and was engaged in the production of prefabricated modular buildings.<\/p>\n
After the official part, the networking continued at a cocktail reception, which is often conducive to making the best deals.<\/p>\n
Work Permits Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n Nada Kne\u017eevi\u0107, representative of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce in Vienna, noted the issue faced by many companies when bringing, for example, fitters to market their products in Austria.<\/p>\n \u2013 Serbia and BiH are treated as third countries, so people coming from those countries must have work permits. Although it is only a secondment to perform work, there is a long wait for such a permit, and at the same time it is limited, for example, to only 10 working days for mounting a stand of the company where they work \u2013 she conveyed.<\/p>\n Temporary work permits are not issued by the Ministry of the Interior, but by the Employment Service (AMS), and thus require submitting extensive documentation and imply high costs and several weeks of waiting.<\/p>\n Those permits, Kne\u017eevi\u0107 announced, will be the topic of the next meeting of the Serbia-Austria Mixed Committee, on 15 March in Belgrade.<\/p>\n Kne\u017eevi\u0107 added that the Austrian authorities were well aware of the potential of businessmen of foreign origin, who were an increasingly important factor. She noted that of all the migrant communities, the Serbian had the largest share of sole proprietors.<\/p>\n Lower Capital Requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n Lawyer Milan Gli\u0161i\u0107 told the present that some changes had occurred in Austrian legislation.<\/p>\n \u2013 The new law on company establishment provides for capital requirement lowering from EUR 35,000 to 10,000. It also introduced a \u2018flexible company,\u2019 intended for startups \u2013 Gli\u0161i\u0107 said.<\/p>\n Source: Vesti online<\/p>\n Photo: Z. Mirkovi\u0107<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Association of Serbian Businessmen in Austria (USPA) met in the premises of the Association of Serbian Clubs in Vienna, noting the importance of networking and cooperation of entrepreneurs of Serbian origin both within Austria and with homeland businessmen. Borislav Kapetanovi\u0107 said that the Association had been founded eight years ago, but only in recent years<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vijesti","category-vijesti-dijaspora"],"yoast_head":"\n