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Modern venues for industrial activities with a complete set of services and infrastructure that constitute the government’s vision for organized industrial parks (OBP) in Greece, capable of attracting foreign and local large investments, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Costas Frangogiannis described in an article in Kathimeriki on Sunday.
Given that industry is the locomotive of the economy of each country, as Mr. Frangogiannis explains, organized infrastructure and incentives are needed in a Greece that has an overwhelmingly large percentage of its industrial activity scattered in rural areas, outside planning. The picture that exists today, as he says, is 181 informal industrial concentrations with a total area of 30,000hectares and only 5% of the recorded industrial, craft, transport and storage activities of the country have been installed and operated in 57 organized industrial areas with a total area 7,500 hectares established after the first law, in 1965, for industrial areas and parks.
The image of tomorrow that constitutes the vision of the government for Organized Industrial Parks (OIP), as Mr. Frangogiannis states, includes reception areas for industrial activities with a complete set of services and infrastructure that is established and operates to support industrial and related activities under the management and supervision of a specialized body. Organized spaces near roads that serve the required transport, near a port or train station, with all infrastructure projects, such as roads, water supply, sewage, solid waste and biological treatment, storm water drainage, telephone lines and broadband networks. Completely spatially planned parks , characterized for their respective use and that have fire extinguishing network, green irrigation network, and electricity network, district heating and energy management systems from the simplest to the most complex hybrid systems that respect the environment and green energy change.
In such an organized space, adds Mr. Frangogiannis, there are supportive situations that help the businessman in his first steps. Temporary offices to be installed, accommodation, and meeting rooms. The body that manages the operation of an OIP is the one that has the ability to ensure (fast track) the rapid issuance of the required licenses and controls the legal establishment of the company
In this context, as the Deputy Foreign Minister points out, the Economic Diplomacy and extroversion units of the country, attract the potential investor, offering him incentives and reasons for settling in our country, including the possibility to buy or rent the plot for a long time,, with all the necessary infrastructure and the necessary administrative service to carry out its respective investment plan that are needed.
Moreover, concludes Mr. Frangogiannis, the new industrial policy of the European Commission set in 2017 has as its main axes the strengthening of human resources, the revitalization of regions and the use of the best technologies to create a smart, clean, innovative industry. International experience shows the value of the development of organized industrial parks worldwide, which highlights their important role in industry, boosting investment and economic growth.
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