The Zagreb Business Week opened at the Trade Fair Centre on Tuesday, comprising three shows: the EMAT International Environmental Protection, Eco-technology and Utilities Equipment Fair, the International Energy, Electronics and Automation Fair, and the Interprotex International Personal and Property Protection Fair.
The shows brought together 176 exhibitors from 26 countries, and will close on September 30.
The State Secretary with the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Ivan Bubic, said in his opening remarks that the three fairs were presenting advanced technologies and the technologies of the future, stressing the importance of renewable energy sources as ecologically desirable.
Bubic said that investors had shown a great interest in projects based on renewable energy sources, adding that in the last four years over 850 such projects had been put forward to the ministry and that 565 of them had been approved.
He said that once Croatia joined the European Union it would be entitled to use EU funds, specifying that in the first six months Croatia would have access to 800 million euros and in the first two years 3 billion euros.
Bubic said that business owners should make the most of the pre-accession period by investing in training, development of new products and product branding.
