CRO & GERMAN TRADE CHAMBERS PROLONG COOPERATION PROJECT

( Editorial: --> 1737 ) ZAGREB, 8 Aug (Hina) - The Croatian Chamber of Trade (HOK) and the Chamber of Trade for Munich and Upper Bavaria have prolonged their partnership project until 2001. The investor into the project, signed in 1995, is the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The implementation of the project has been entrusted to the Foundation for Economic and Trades Education from Bonn. The project is aimed at strengthening the national economies through trades and creating an efficient traders' organisation capable of meeting traders' needs. These aims are to be realised through advancing HOK's organisational model, securing a long-term effective care for traders' interests, developing service offer which suits the needs of craft services and improving traders' qualification structure. This was agreed upon at a meeting of two chambers held in Croatia on August 3-5. The Foundation for Economic and Trades Education this year made a revision of all past activities. It was on the basis of their assessment that Germany's Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development decided to prolong the project. (hina) rml 081417 MET aug 98