KAMIENNA GÓRA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE
FOR MEDIUM AND SMALL BUSINESSES
ul. Papieża Jana Pawła II 11A
58-400 Kamienna Góra
tel.(+48 75) 645 15 03 - 06
tel./fax. (+48 75) 7442017
e-mail:strefa@ssemp.pl
http://www.ssemp.pl/
Management of the Zone
President
Grzegorz Rychter
PROFILE OF THE REGION AND THE ZONE
The area is located in the south-western part of Poland near the Czech and German borders and is near major communications routes. Both areas contain large resources of minerals, particularly sands and clays, thus providing the possibility of launching the production of building materials, especially in view of the existing plan to build transport routes. It takes in three areas: Kamienna Góra, Jawor, Nowogrodziec, which together cover 250.96 ha.
Advantages for the investor in the zone include:
- accelerated procedures for granting permits to foreigners to buy real estate
- the only Zone of its type in Poland offering special conditions for SMEs
- an exceptionally good situation with regard to border crossings with the Czech Republic and Germany
- infrastructure for utilities
- low manufacturing costs
- a large supply of well qualified labour which has the capacity to gain further qualifications and re-training
- hiking and tourist facilities, beautiful scenery, proximity of well-known leisure areas - Szklarska Poręba, Karpacz, and a network of hotels and boarding houses.
KAMIENNA GÓRA AREA
Kamienna Góra is a town whose history goes back 750 years, picturesquely sited in a vale surrounded by the hills of Wałbrzyskie and Kamienne. Its location is made all the more attractive since it lies alongside the Scandinavia/Southern Europe route via Szczecin. The A3 North/South motorway is going to run through the town of Kamienna Góra.
The Czech border crossing at Lubawka is 11 km away.
The Kamienna Góra zone consists of two distinguishable parts:
a) Kamienna Góra I - this is a post-industrial built-up site of 9.2 ha, with full access to utilities, located in the town centre
b) Kamienna Góra II - the area is non-built-up, in the north-eastern part of the town, on a site of 110.24ha. This site has partial facilities with the possibility of being linked up with all utilities, it is adjacent to a goods and passenger railway station in Kamienna Góra.
THE LABOUR MARKET
There are 20,000 people of working age in Kamienna Góra and the surrounding area.
There are 4,500 unemployed, 3,100 of whom are qualified workers, among them - 2,300 women.
NOWOGRODZIEC AREA
This area is in the north western part of the Nowogrodziec borough, it includes the non-built-up area of Wykroty (area 106.98 ha). The borough lies on the edge of Przedgórze Sudeckie, in an area of large natural mineral resources. The area is characterised by a well-developed infrastructure, which facilitates large scale investments in the area.
These areas are directly next to the east/west
National Route 4.
It is possible to be connected up to all the utilities.
There is a goods and passenger railway station 3km away. The nearest Polish-German border crossing is at Ludwigsdorf - Jędrzychowice near Zgorzelec, about 19 km away. The A-4, which is being built at the fastest rate of all Polish motorways, will be passing just 300 m away from the Zone.
LABOUR MARKET
There are 35,000 people of working age in Nowogrodziec and its surrounding areas.
Number of unemployed - 5,500 (3,600 women), 2,700 of whom are qualified.
Investment to date
The volume of investment outlays amounts to 8.7 million USD.
- KALIBRA - synthetic packaging company
- NADEX - furniture and metalwork production
- MAGO ENGRAM - electrical installations production (control boxes)
- EMA - buildings materials production
- EXPANPRO - buildings materials production
- JOSKIN NWD - agricultural facilities
- ZAMEKO - steel constructions, cisterns, anticorrosion protection
They will employ at least 460 people.
TAX RELIEFS
An entity doing business in the Zone can utilise only one type of relief. The entity declares the type of relief it wants for the tax year, although it can be changed in the next year.
Tax exemptions are as follows:
Total exemption from income tax in the first ten years of the Zone's life and 50% for the remainder of the Zone's existence.
The size of the exemption is established by reference to the type of exemption selected:
PREFERRED TYPES OF ACTIVITY
The preferred types of activities in the Small Enterprise Special Economic Zone:
- Spinning, textile and clothing industries
- Wood and furniture industries
- Electro-machinery and electronic industries
- Synthetic materials manufacturing
- Agricultural food processing
- Building material industry
- Tanning industry