Special Economic Zones gave green light to 730 investors before year's end

By the end of 2000 almost 730 companies had received permission to invest in 15 Special Economic Zones (SSE), where they are expected to invest zl.13.14 billion. Six weeks before year's-end, the deadline for staking a full tax-exempt investment in the zones, interest exceeded all expectations, with permission for 300 new undertakings granted. According to sources representing the SSEs, interest in investing in Poland will decrease now that this deadline has passed. "A group of deputies has raised a motion in the Sejm to extend the bill in its previous form. If it turns out to be successful, there is a chance that SSEs will operate in their previous form this year as well," said Krzysztof Krzysztofiak, president of SSE Krakowski Park Technologiczny. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7) M.M.