BRE

Name of the project:             Business Registry Empowerment

Acronym of the project:       #BRE, No.230

Duration:                               24 months (Start Date: 15.03.2018; End Date: 14.03.2020)

PROGRAMME rationale:   Programme priority: Strengthening the cross-border cooperation and competitiveness of SMEs.

Priority specific objective: 1.1 Enhance the framework conditions for the development of SME’s cross border market.

Specific Objectives:

1) Enhancing the framework conditions for the development of SMEs competitiveness

2) Setting up networking actions of business support organizations and public institutions promoting CB

Cooperation;

3) Developing capacity building and training schemes benefiting the SMEs internationalization

Lead Partner:                        Tirana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIT)

Partners:                                Ministry of Finance and Economy – Albania (MFE)

Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Artisanship and Agriculture of

Bari (CCIAA Bari)

Chamber of Economy of Montenegro (PKCG)

Innovation and entrepreneurship center Tehnopolis

Project Description:             

A summary

The project tackles the main common challenges of the coordination among European Business Registries (BR) is a key factor for a joint continental business environment, producing administrative harmonization, transparency, legal certainty, competitiveness. BRE project, by exchanging and improving experiences among Italian, Albanian and Montenegrin BRs on 3 levels: legislative (laws, actors involved, policies), operational (process management), technology (software, hardware, outputs). Countries with efficient e-registries tend to have a shorter incorporation timeframes, fewer bureaucratic procedures, a lower cost of entry, a significant role in facilitating business creation. So, creating a transnational platform to link national BRs, the BRE project will empower Chambers of Commerce, Ministries and IT providers (policies, process management, IT instruments); but above all SMEs (cross-border partner searching, legality, competitiveness).

The basic output of the project is 1) The Partner Query Platform, in which the 3 BRs will be joint. These registries are (and remain) property of the Public Institutions involved in BRE and they record existing companies, but can be adequately consulted by an on-demand query and deliver partners list, for instance.

2) BRE will be a map of existing repositories and database of business information, favoring the integration between them with unique classification criteria.

3) The third main output is the analysis of the existing legislation systems. BRE will provide a white paper proposal for the unification of business registration system.

4) The other main output will be the capacity building actions addressed to Public institutions and mostly training session both virtual and front-end addressed to companies, fostering the possibility to create value collaborating and innovating at CB level.

Project relevance

Territorial challenge

Good Business Registries can improve business environment, by facilitating information access, providing transparency and accuracy of data, reducing costs and strengthening efficiencies for SMEs, decreasing the public-sector cost of maintaining registries, providing a better tool for market surveillance, business monitoring and competitiveness, since information leads to dynamism.

Project approach

The project deals with

Besides Albania and Montenegro have an ancient story of commercial relations. It means those territories and business environments are born to work together, but should be “educated” and helped on the means to be used: transparent, certain, on demand, effective, ICT-oriented. In addition, their policies should accompany this empowerment properly. Through the establishment of BRE Platform and through tailored training and dissemination actions, will provide long-term instruments addressed for companies in order to increase SMEs collaboration and competitiveness.

Cooperation reason:

Cross border cooperation is particular relevant because there are already trans-regional experiences of bilateral character.

Development actions will be done in Italy, Albania, and Montenegro and for the operations at transnational level. BRE will generate benefit for the CB community, implementing activities within BRE Project. Partners set up a cross-border task force committed in maximizing the cross-border impact of every activities of the project.

General Objective:  

The general objective of this project matches with the specific objective of the Programme, aiming to enhance the framework conditions for the development of SME’s cross-border market, through the creation of a transnational Platform, linked to the 3 National BRs, in order to favor the collaboration among companies.

Specific Objectives:              

Project Specific Objectives

1) Enhancing the framework conditions for the development of SMEs competitiveness

2) Setting up networking actions of business support organizations and public institutions promoting CB

Cooperation;

3) Developing capacity building and training schemes benefiting the SMEs internationalization

Main activities:                     

WP 1   Project management;

WP 2   Mapping and involvement of companies;

WP 3   BRE Partner Query Platform

WP 4   Capacity Building

WP 5   Communication

Main results:                         

With BRE Platform, SMEs located in Italy, Albania and Montenegro will be able to increase their internationalization with the possibility to enter in foreign markets, open new communication channels and introduce collaborative innovations, as well as with the support of such PPs providing tailored training actions. Besides, the general improvement of the 3 BRs will enhance business environment, by facilitating information access, providing transparency and accuracy of data, reducing costs and strengthening efficiencies for SMEs, decreasing the public-sector cost, providing a better tool for market surveillance, business monitoring and competitiveness.

Main outputs:                       

• Transnational business classification criteria
• BRE Partner Query Platform
• Info points for companies
• Training and mentoring courses for CCI employees
•  Training courses for beneficiaries
•  Transnational B2B meeting
• Consortium agreement

The project is supported by the interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme funded under IPA II fund.

Project Manager:

Aris Tasho

E-mail: aris_tasho@cci.al

Phone: +355 045800933

Mobile: +355693322140