Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Mar 2024 | Valdis Dombrovskis Executive Vice-President | Competitiveness at EU and Latvian level; EU’s Defence strategy; CMU implementation, including Baltic CMU market; Green Deal for Latvia – implementation | — |
| 15 Mar 2024 | Valdis Dombrovskis Executive Vice-President | Competitiveness at EU and Latvian level; EU’s Defence strategy; CMU implementation, including Baltic CMU market; Green Deal for Latvia – implementation | SRC |
| 06 May 2019 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester CSRs implementation, reform agenda for Latvia | SRC |
| 06 May 2019 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester CSRs implementation, reform agenda for Latvia | — |
| 23 Apr 2019 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester, CSRs for Latvia, Brexit | — |
| 23 Apr 2019 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester, CSRs for Latvia, Brexit | SRC |
| 05 Jun 2017 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester CSR and investment climate | — |
| 05 Jun 2017 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | European Semester CSR and investment climate | SRC |
| 30 Oct 2015 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | The recent economic developments in EU and Eurozone, Europe2020, European Semester and its recommendations for Latvia. FICIL's position papers on investment and structural reform agenda in LV. | — |
| 30 Oct 2015 | Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President | The recent economic developments in EU and Eurozone, Europe2020, European Semester and its recommendations for Latvia. FICIL's position papers on investment and structural reform agenda in LV. | SRC |
Mission & Goals
FICIL's mission is to improve the business environment in Latvia through active dialogue with the government. We work to advise in a transparent manner the Latvian government on areas to improve the investment climate so that it benefits all investors. Accordingly, the following principles lie behind FICIL's activities: FICIL works with the government of Latvia in solving common problems shared by its members, FICIL does not lobby or represent interests of individual companies, FICIL identifies generic issues and then strives for solutions to improve the investment climate overall. FICIL focuses on generic issues of concern to the wider investors' community in Latvia.
EU Legislative Interests
Sustainable economic development Fiscal stability Europe 2020 strategy The European Semester Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Guidelines – evaluation The Green Deal initiative
Communication Activities
FICIL internal committees - work groups actively working with the Latvian Government on a range of business environment issues. FICIL meets annually with the Government of Latvia in High Council (HC) meetings.The HC meetings are intended to facilitate a top-level discussion forum between foreign investors and the Government, to set up structured exchange of information and views between the major investors and the national policymakers.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The British Chamber of Commerce in Latvia: https://www.britcham.lv/
Organisation Members
FICIL corporate and associate member list: http://www.ficil.lv/members/