The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice (RIG)

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice (RIG) operates in Poland. It was established on 13 February 1990 by 103 corporate founders, registered on the 21st of March 1990 and obtained a legal personality. Its activity is based on the Act of 30 May 1989 of chambers of trade and industry and their statutes. The Chamber is an organisation voluntarily assembling over 400 high quality corporate bodies, also from overseas countries, that run business activities in many different areas, for example, production, construction, commerce and services, and constantly, it is in the process of gaining new members.

The main and the most significant role of the Chamber is to help both their members and third parties participating in some way in economy, business, commerce, trade and politics efficiently through an improvement of entrepreneurial environment, economic forecasts, suggestions, constructive solutions, building credible, authentic business relationships, consultation in different matters. However, the Chamber is also a support for internationalisation, economic development and self-organisation, ensures and maintains a permanent safety of business activities, fair market behaviour and the enforcement of common interests of companies.

The Katowice Chamber co-operates with different overseas chambers of commerce from many countries all over the world, overseas embassies and diplomatic missions, commercial representations, local and national governments, international organisations, institutions of economic development and promotion institutions (mainly from the EU).

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice continues the tradition of the Chamber of Commerce founded in Katowice in 1922 and acting from 1927 till 1950 as the Silesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Katowice Chamber is a member of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Warsaw, but it is generally considered as the biggest and the most innovative and progressive chamber from all other chambers in Poland.

Their role will include implementation of the Audit Scheme in Poland, setting-up of auditors training workshops, for training 5 auditors and audit 10 SMEs followed by validation and dissemination of the results with the objective of furthering the awareness among Polish SMEs of the need for a more focussed approach to communication with trading partners in Europe in order to consolidate trade relationships.