SEE Investment Committee

The South East Europe (SEE) Investment Committee is the institutional structure supported and managed by the OECD Investment Compact for South East Europe.

Launched by South East European countries and Kosovo under UNSCR1244/99 in 2007 to enhance regional leadership for common strategies, this high-level co-ordination body supports the implementation of policies promoting foreign and domestic investment.

The Investment Committee is closely associated with other relevant regional initiatives such as the South East European Co-operation Process (SEECP) and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC).

Objectives

The SEE Investment Committee aims to

• develop guidelines on how to implement policy reforms along the priority areas identified in the Investment Reform Index (IRI)
• monitor and implement the OECD Regional Framework for Investment, adopted by SEE ministers of economy in Vienna on 26 June 2006
• act as the investment arm of the Regional Cooperation Council

Structure

The SEE Investment Committee is composed of senior officials and their advisors.

It meets twice a year, and at the Ministerial level once a year.

Four working groups have been set up along the following lines of the Investment Reform Index: Human capital, taxation, investment promotion, and regulatory reform. They work in close co-operation with country and OECD experts, international organisations and the private sector to develop action plans and capacity building programmes for the implementation of investment reforms on both a country and region level.

Meetings

The South East Europe Investment Committee

1st Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee, 2 April 2007

2nd Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee, 11 November 2007

3rd Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee, 23 May 2008

4th Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee, 7 April 2009

5th Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee, 16 November 2009

The South East Europe Working Groups

Human Capital

1st Meeting of the Working Group on Human Capital, 10 July 2007

2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Human Capital, 3-4 July 2008

3rd Meeting of the Working Group on Human Capital, 17 September 2009

Tax Policy Analysis

1st Meeting of the Working Group on Tax Policy Analysis, 29-30 October 2008

2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Tax Policy Analysis, 19 June 2009

Investment Promotion

1st Meeting of the Working Group on Investment Promotion, 18 June 2007

2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Investment Promotion, 09-10 April 2008

Regulatory Reform

1st Meeting of the Working Group on Regulatory Reform, 30-31 October 2007

2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Regulatory Reform, 2-3 April 2008

3rd Meeting of the Working Group on Regulatory Reform, 22 October 2009

Further information on working groups

For information on the Human Capital Working Group, please contact nicolas.philiponnet@oecd.org.

For information on the Tax Policy Analysis Working Group, please contact steven.clark@oecd.org or erin.hengel@oecd.org.

For information on the Investment Promotion Working Group, please contact andrea.beltramello@oecd.org.

For information on the Regulatory Reform Working Group, please contact jakob.fexer@oecd.org.