British Polish Chamber of Commerce

On the 21st of May Spring Business Mixer was held in Kraków to provide opportunity to mix together for the members of the two strong chambers having activities in the south of Poland. It is already a tradition that British-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce meet at least once a year in Kraków.

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The Third British-Polish Construction Forum took place on 24 May 2019 at the NatWest Conference Centre in the City of London. Organised by PBLINK, the event has become a regular fixture in the business calendar.

Dr Maciej Kawecki, director of the data-management department of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, was the keynote speaker at a meeting of the BPCC’s Technology, Media and Telecoms policy group on 3 April 2019, which focused on blockchain (distributed ledger technology, or DLT).

With a month to go until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, the uncertainty regarding the terms of the departure is causing great concern to Polish exporters.

The BPCC’s Manufacturing Industries group met in Rzeszów at McBraida factory on 12 March 2019, for a meeting aimed at CFOs and finance directors of manufacturers. The aim was to look at tax and finance issues facing manufacturers in Poland.

According to the current arrangements on March 29, 2019 UK will leave the European Union.

A fascinating exchange of best practice between the UK’s tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and the Polish Ministry of Finance, centred around the way in which tax offices communicate with tax payers, and the role of digital technologies in making taxpaying simpler.

BPCC members from the construction and real estate sectors got together with their opposite numbers from the Scandinavian Polish Chamber of Commerce to discuss prospects for Poland’s built environment in the short- and medium term.

The BPCC celebrated the life and works of Scotland’s national poet on 23 January 2019 in the presence of Scotland’s Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation, Ivan McKee, and British Ambassador, Jonathan Knott.