Romania West Region Proiect REGinNET Brussles, May 30th, 2006 1

West region of Romania is one of the large and developed of the Romanian regions , located on the frontier with Hungary and EU. Region connected at the EU support networks: IRE, EURADA, EIC and IRC. Other caracteristics: space with multi-culturality with a large etnical minorities ( romanian and hungarians, serbians, germans, rroma, czechs, ucrainians ) peoples with open minds for news. 1

Surface :. 31,863 sqKm Inhabitants: Surface : 31,863 sqKm Inhabitants: around 2 milions West Region : Timis, Arad, Hunedoara and Caras-Severin Number of companies: 74,298 from which SMEs 69,840 , and 26,747 active companies Universities: 8 in Timisoara, 1 in Arad, 1 Resita, 1 in Deva R&D institutes/units: chemistry, welding, IT, agriculture, health-medicine, environment 1

Map of regions in Romania 1

TIMIS county ulticultural environment Borders with Serbia and Hungary Surface: 8697 sqKm, Population:700,003 inhabitants The region’s development pole: Timisoara Number of companies: 26.719 from which SMEs 25115 Foreign investments: USA, Italy, France Joint ventures: 4,920 Invested capital 346,79 mil.USD 1

Economy sectors: ►electronics, electrotechnics ► machinery and car parts ► furniture and wood processing ► agriculture and food processing ► chemistry, plastic processing ► textiles and clothing ► shoes, leather and fur industry ► commerce and services 1

Timisoara Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture Created in 1850, NGO, non-profit, dedicated to sustain and develop the local and regional business environment Leader of the local business environment through: a wide range of services communication modern organizational structure highly qualifies personnel fully oriented towards customer satisfaction quality certified SR EN ISO9001 1187 members, divided in 13 sections depending on the field of activity Branches: in Lugoj, Sannicolaul Mare (RO) and Karlsruhe in International Membership: EIC, DKMT Euro Region, IRC Contacts in 40 countries, 28 co-operation agreements 1

Timisoara Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture sustaining the local business environment for competivity Consulting Department: assistance and counselling for SMEs and strat-up ; support for implementing a quality assuarnce system based on ISO-9000 Euro Info Centre Timisoara: information, assistance, counselling and documenting on European matters related to Internal Market Regional Center for Promoting the Protection of Industrial Property: information, assistentce and counseling for protecting the inventions, industrial designs and marks Regional Information Center regarding Standards: information and assistance for applying standards, and provides standards documents Training Department: training programmes ISO9001,ISO14001, OHSAS, HCCP 1

►Marketing & Economical Practice Centre: practice and stages for students ► Centre for Entrepreneurs Assistance: training programs and seminars ► International Relationship Centre: Office Italy (Lombardia and Veneto) and Office Germany ► IRC Romania Local Point Timisoara (since July 2004) 1

► CCIAT has contributions in the major projects of the region: ► FP6-RIS NACE Innovation Strategy of West Romania region, project leaded by Regional Development Agency 5 West ► Timisoara Technologic & Industrial Park, project leaded by Local Development Agency-ADETIM ► PHARE CBC 2001 RO/HU Investment project ,,Regional Business Centre Timisoara’’, CCIAT is beneficiary 1

Thank you for your attention Thank you for your attention! Rodica Jurcuţ Manager Euro Info Centre RO823 Camera de Comerţ, Industrie şi Agricultură Timişoara Piaţa Victoriei nr.3, 300030 Timişoara tel/fax 0256-219173 e-mail: euroinfo@cciat.ro http://eic.ce 1