The government’s strategic priority to support small and medium -sized businesses and reduced bureaucracy was underlined by Kozani by the Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakosspeaking to the 1st Ordinary General Assembly of the Central Union of Chambers of Greece on the House of Pontic Hellenism. Present were ND MP Efstathios Konstantinidis, representatives of Chambers throughout the country, self -government and business world.
The Minister of Development congratulated the new President of the KEEE, Ioannis Voutsina, as well as all the Chambers of the Chambers, who described as “closest associates of the Ministry of Development” and announced a legislative initiative to modernize their contemporary context:
Referring to the volatile international environment, the Minister of Development emphasized that we “live in a world that is changing at dizzying speed” and warned of the impact of a possible world trade war. “It takes readiness and plan. The Greek economy is doing well, but we do not have the luxury of complacency,” he stressed K. Theodorikakos.
Regarding the recent announcements to reduce unemployment to 8.3%, he pointed out that “it is the result of serious policy and the work of the professional world. Now we have to go below, change our productive model”.
For the new development law, through which resources of 1 billion euros will be mobilized in the next two years, K. Theodorikakos He noted that it is the key tool for enhancing production and attracting new investments, and pointed out that it emphasizes industry, processing, innovation and supporting both small and medium -sized enterprises and larger investments “that create multiplier benefits and many jobs”. “There will be regimes that concern almost exclusively small and medium -sized businesses or even autonomous individuals. Even traditional forms of economy can be strengthened, from crafts and pottery to new social entrepreneurship,” he noted.
As he announced, the first three regimes of the Development Law are announced in the coming period: for processing, large investment and a separate regime for all border counties and areas of the country with income below 70% of the national average. “The four prefectures of Western Macedonia are part of this special regime and are regularly involved in other regimes. The goal is to re -enter these areas on the country’s productive map,” he said, recalling that the prefectures of Western Macedonia are exploiting its very important and very important. He even emphasized that projects have been implemented in recent years that exceeds 22 billion euros throughout northern Greece.
The Minister also referred to the reform for the new independent market supervision and consumer protection. “We are proceeding with a deep reform. Once upon a time, the state has decided on the issue of taxes and tax evasion, the one who will control it will be the independent authority called AADE. So in the part of consumer protection and the supervision of commerce, the new strong independent authority will market.
THE K. Theodorikakos He also made a special reference to the National Quality Policy bill, which is submitted to Parliament next time. As he pointed out, “this is a very serious bill on all entrepreneurship and enhances the competitiveness of our businesses through the upgrading of the accreditation, certification and control system. The aim is” to prevent and guarantee the quality and safety of the products before negative events happen, not to mobilize “.
In closing, the Minister of Development noted: “2026 is a year with a lot of work: investment, development law, new principle, a new quality policy bill. We’re going to prevent and build strong, sustainable development.