Chamber for Economic Relations with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS Chamber).
The Chamber of the CIS was established by the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic at the founding General Assembly on 12 March 1997 as a special chamber of commerce (according to Act No. 42/1980 Coll. on Economic Relations with Foreign Countries).
The Chamber is a non-state, separate and independent legal entity. Members of the Chamber can be both legal entities and natural persons.
The membership base consists of industrial enterprises as well as commercial banks and insurance companies as well as consulting firms. Currently, there are approximately 165 companies.
The governing body of the Chamber is the 11-member Board of Directors, headed by the chairman.
The basic content of the activities of the CIS Chamber are:
- professional seminars,
- business missions to countries of interest and their regions,
contact meetings with delegations of entrepreneurs from countries of interest,
- information and consulting services,
- mediation of entry visas with consular departments of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
