Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, Special Co-ordinator Erhard Busek and leading Turkish business executive Rahmi Koc, Chair of the Business Advisory Council, will be addressing an investors mission to Romania on October 13 in Bucharest.  The Business Advisory Council for South Eastern Europe is composed of over 40 leading European and American business people.  Its main aim is to improve the business climate in Southeastern Europe, to attract investment and to advise Governments and the Stability Pact’s Economics Working Table on practical problems investors face in Southeastern Europe.

Investors missions to SEE countries are an important tool of information sharing and awareness raising.  The Bucharest BAC mission will gather approximately 150 local and international business people.  Its main topics will be dealt with at three Sectoral Round Tables, focusing on Infrastructure & Telecommunications, Private Public Partnerships in Communal Services and Agriculture, Food & Tourism.  These topics were chosen because of their potential to attract investments but equally, because the SEE business community and state authorities generally have limited experience with business promotion abroad.  This is particularly true for Private Public Partnerships, which will be a special focus in Bucharest.

Media are invited to attend the keynote speeches
by PM Nastase, SC Busek and BAC Chair Koc,
13 October 2003 14.00 – 15.00 hrs,
House of Parliament, Bucharest. 

The speakers and members of the BAC will be available for individual media contacts in the following Coffee Break 15.00 – 15.30hrs.

The Business Advisory Council (BAC) to SECI (launched 1997) and to the Stability Pact (launched 1999) merged in December 2002 to constitute the BAC SEE (Business Advisory Council for South Eastern Europe).  It works closely with the SCSP (Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for SEE) and targets 8 countries, (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro).