Introduction
CEBRE – Czech Business Representation to the EU in Brussels was founded by three most important cross-sectoral Czech entrepreneurial and employers organizations – Confederation of Employers’ and Entrepreneurs’ Associations of the Czech Republic, Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic and Czech Chamber of Commerce. Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic together with its trade promotion agency CzechTrade provided support to this joint effort. CEBRE operates in Brussels in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic to Belgium. Since 2015, CEBRE provides assistance to Czech companies expanding to Belgian market through trade promotion agency CzechTrade.
Priorities of CEBRE founders and currently discussed European legislation determine CEBRE activities. Priority themes are set for the period of 6-12 months and on their basis a lobbying strategy and concrete activities are prepared.
In the first half of 2022, the priority themes are:
- Green Deal for Europe
- Digital Agenda and the Digital Services Act
- EU SME Strategy and new industrial policy
- Sustainable Corporate Governance and Due Diligence
CEBRE – Czech Business Representation to the EU:
- Is a united representation of the Czech business community.
- Provides entrepreneurs and their organizations with the information and services facilitating their functioning on the Internal European Market.
- Represents various Czech business and employers’ organizations at their pan-European counterparts based in Brussels.
- Promotes the interests of Czech businesses vis-a-vis the EU institutions and European associations.
CEBRE focuses on helping Czech business community to succeed in the enlarged EU by providing up-to-date relevant information, customized training for managers and analyses of EU affairs. Besides that CEBRE represents its founding organizations vis-a-vis European organizations and associations they participate in. These include BusinessEurope, EUROCHAMBRES and EuroCommerce. Since 2008 CEBRE has been registered with European Transparency Register under identification number 9412010322-35.
To find out more about activities of CEBRE and its founding organizations as well as about current economic developments in the Czech Republic you can have a look at our magazine Czech Business Today. If you are based in Brussels and would like to receive Czech Business Today by post, let us know your mailing address at brussels@cebre.cz.
