Record attendance at the 28th Traditional Real Estate Management Consultation

This year's consultation on 9 and 10 November was marked, beside the repeated record attendance by domestic participants, by the participation of foreign real estate professionals that have attended the consultation on the invitation of the Slovenian FIABCI real estate association. The said association marked the 25th anniversary of its existence within the scope of the consultation. The participants were acquainted with the activities that are being carried out for the realization of the goals of the Resolution on the national housing programme 2015 – 2025, whereby emphasis is given to the transition from owned to rented apartments. They discussed the starting points for the revision of the housing legislation in the field of apartment buildings' management and addressed the spatial reform and real estate records. The consultation organizers will forward the summit’s conclusions relating to individual addressed fields to the relevant ministers this year as well, and strive to gather corresponding responses from them.

Second strategic conference on sustainable construction

Over 120 participants at the second strategic conference on sustainable construction on 24 October discussed the coming challenges that new growth and technological development in construction bring to the job market and enterprises as well as for education. Among the adopted conclusions, we stress the urgent nature of the government's systematic approach to providing jobs in construction, appropriate support in education and training, an increase in social standards, mandatory compliance with the guidelines on public procurement of construction as well as the preparation of the strategy for construction activity development for the period up to 2030. The event has been organized by the Chamber of Construction and Construction Materials Industry together with the Ministry of economic development and technology.

Discover Slovenia – Champions of Niche

In the magazine published in mid-November we have focused on Slovene companies’ new and future products which can be found in brands such as Audi, BMW, Gaggenau, Panasonic, Bombardier, Kaercher, Electrolux, Alstom, Deutsche Telekom, Adidas, Prada etc.

Visit by young businessmen from Turkey

In October, Slovenia was visited by a group of 17 businessmen, members of the Turkish Aegean Young Businessmen Association - EGIAD. The Turkish businessmen's visit drew a lot of interest of the Slovenian business public that are interested in the vast and diverse Turkish market. Thus, the business meeting transformed in the second half to the implementation of several bilateral meetings between Slovenian and Turkish businessmen. More than 90 B2B meetings took place. Representatives of many and diverse industries took advantage of this opportunity, ranging from energy to textile production, including legal and business services.

22 November: Slovenian Business Summit – The Developmental Partnership of Three Generations 2025

The increase in the number of quality jobs and the number of actively working people in the 55+ generation, as well as a faster inclusion of young people in regular employment can only be achieved by joining forces – the economy, the trade unions and politicians. It is time to propose key goals and steps for the period 2018–2025 in order to achieve the welfare of all three generations: the active generation, the older generation and the young generation.

22 November: 21st Slovenian Paper-Making Day

The main topic of this year’s event will be “Co-operating. Networking. Co-creating... The Future.”

22 -26 November: 33rd Slovenian Book Fair

On the surface of 3,500 m2 and 6 stages in the Cankar Centre, 100 exhibitors will be participating, 10 awards will be given out, whereas we expect 30,000 visitors that will be greeted by 3,000 new books and 300 accompanying events that will be attended by 30 foreign and over 100 local authors. This year's guest countries are Germany, Austria and Switzerland. An exhibition of illustrations by Hinko Smrekar from Levstik's 1917 Martin Krpan will be put on display.

23 - 25 November: Italy: FORUM AGENTI MILANO 2017

Participants of this event will have the opportunity to meet with Italian agents and brokers presenting a regular method and entrance path for the export of products and services into the neighbouring state's market worth 60 million.
Slovene companies will present themselves together on a Slovene stand where each company will have its own place for individual meetings, and displaying smaller products and presentation material.

Visit by Minister Karl Erjavec with business delegation in Romania

During the official visit by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr. Karl Erjavec, in Romania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, the SPIRIT Public Agency and the CCIS from 26 and 27 (28) November, are organizing a visit by the business delegation in Bucharest.

Conference and B2B meeting, 28 November 2017

The Austrian Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), a member of which is also CCIS, is organizing on 28 November an international conference and a B2B meeting titled “INTERNATIONAL MACHINERY AND PLANT ENGINEERING FORUM”. For international enterprises in machine and mechanical engineering, this event is an opportunity to meet new suppliers, customers and business partners.

For greater order in construction

The adoption of the new construction law will bring more order on the market of construction service providers and protect the contractors that meet the minimum requirements for the performance of construction work before unfair competition, as communicated by the Chamber of Construction and Construction Materials Industry and the CCIS. This resulted in new demands for construction contractors relating to their HR qualifications and activity insurance. This will bring greater order in the industry and prevent completely unqualified contractors from performing construction services.

Greater business efficiency award made possible

The Finance and Monetary Policy Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia adopted an amendment on its session on 2 November that was brought forward by the coalition parties and that complemented the proposal of the amendment of the Personal Income Tax Act in such a manner that companies will be able to pay the business efficiency award (also called the 13th salary) to their employees under more favourable tax terms, namely, up to 100% of the average salary in the RS and not only up to 70%, as per the regulation in force until now (the award in this amount is relieved of the personal income tax, thereby making the net income higher). We applaud this step taken by the coalition parties that allows companies to better award their employees that have contributed to the successful business results.

Real retail, excluding motor vehicles, has grown by a tenth in Slovenia in the first nine months of the year, which is three times more than in the EU-28 or the most in all countries, whereby the corresponding growth of the added value was lower. We are followed by Romania (+9.8%) and Ireland (+7.0%). The trends within this segment in sales in shops providing food and drinks are below average (+1.6%). Sales of petroleum derivatives, however, are standing out as it has grown by a whopping 24% which is only partially the result of favourable trends in international transport and inward tourism receipts. This growth is mostly impacted by the greater focus by the greatest petroleum company on electric energy trade, as, for example, their semi-annual sales of trade goods increased by 5%, whereas the sales of petroleum products rose by 3%. In Croatia, sales in such shops realistically increased by a tenth. Sales of motor vehicles realistically increased by 13%. Rapid expansion of transactions involving used apartments has a favourable impact on the growth of sales of furniture and construction materials which has increased by 7.5% on an annual level, whereas sales in domestic appliances increased by 7.2%. The growth of internet sales and mail delivery remains above average and has grown by 22%. In this respect, it should be taken into account that, unlike purchases by foreign citizens in online shops, international purchases on foreign websites are not included.

Prices of fuels have risen significantly in November and will have an impact on the increase in prices in the said month. In the last three months, the price of petroleum (Brent barrel) increased by a fifth, whereas the contribution to the final prices of petroleum derivatives is appropriately lower due to the high charge thereof with excise duties and VAT. The annual inflation in 2017 will be around 1.5% and could exceed 2% in the next year which is mostly due to the cyclic enhancement of the main components of aggregate demand. A shortage of trained workers on the job market could trigger a greater wage growth which would also result in price rises in the service industries.

Below you will find some statistical data for Slovenia.

*seasonally adjusted