Faqs

First, the Head of the Secretariat with the help of experts will have meetings with business representatives to identify real problems.
Second, the staff of the secretariat will list the identified issues and present to the IC members in the form of the draft agenda for approval as topic to be followed.
Third, upon inclusion in the agenda, IC secretariat will prepare a deep analysis, make a diagnosis and recommendations to be approved by the Investment Council members.
Forth, staff of the Secretariat, upon approval by the Council will follow up next steps until it will get approved by the PM or other institutions within the government.
All the above steps will be published in the IC Secretariat web site to show the transparency of the process.

The outline of the meetings could be the following. Based on the approved annual or six months agenda, the Secretariat will prepare an action plan that will include things to be done, responsible people and institutions, date of submissions of recommendations.
The secretariat will send in advance the agenda of the next meeting, plus papers, documents prepared by experts.
For each topic, will be an explanation note, prepared by the Secretariat staff +experts. Recommendations have to be approved or NOT. Afterwards, minutes of meetings will be prepared, emailed no later than 5-7 days. They will be published in the website after the approval of the meetings minutes and we will follow up with next steps.

The staff of the Secretariat will work together with Experts to prepare the analytical issues and produce relevant reports. The staff will also monitor the implementation of the recommendations while also participating in meetings, events and conferences. It is very important, to be informed on any news related to the business and government in real time. What is the relationship between the Investment Council and the National Economic Council?
The KEK is established by Law and represents a high level instrument, while
Investment Council is more at a technical level, bottom up approach and more specialised on investment climate. The IC will help the KEK with advice on investment climate issues. Issues are consulted in advance with the business. Mr. Ahmetaj is participating in both instruments.