Leader: Ilze Kramiņa (Eversheds Sutherland)

The Construction work group covers issues related to amendments to the Construction Law and other legal acts. In general, the members of the work group perform towards reasonable legal basis for construction in Latvia.

Leader: Baiba Apine (PwC)

The Digitalisation work group is reviewing current IT policies and legislative acts that regulate digitalisation field. Coming out from that analysis, the work group are preparing recommendations in the fields where improvements are needed. Connectivity of warehouses, public IT services are also on the agenda of the work group. Work group is also discussing visionary goals for the digitalisation.

Leader: Claudio Rivera (Riga Business School)

The work group deals with issues related to education, especially higher education. Few among many work group priorities are related with fragmentation of recourses in higher education, matching labour market demand and supply of education system. The work group has been vocal addressing principles of individualisation, cooperation, and internationalization of higher education.

Leader: Nauris Kļava (E&Y)

The work group deals with issues related to energy sector and waste management policy. Circular economy, competitiveness in waste management administration in municipalities are the priorities in waste management field. In the field of energy sector policy work group recommends to adopt integrated national energy and climate change plan and promote cost efficiency in the Renewable Energy Policy.

Leader: Daine Dzirkale (GlaxoSmithCline)

Given that the healthcare system is an important topic for every entrepreneur, FICIL has established the Healthcare issues work group. The Health issues work group is reviewing current proposals for Healthcare reform and if necessary submits recommendations to the government reflecting the view from the perspective of foreign investors.

Leaders: Ilze Znotiņa

The work group is working on recommendation for Latvian government to improve legal acts so that they go in line with principles of justice, rule of law and transparency. One of the work group’s important tasks among the others is to address the injustice of fraudulent abuse of insolvency system.

Leader: Māris Vainovskis (Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns)

The work group looks into the existing business legislation and the rule of law which are among most significant factors for investment decisions. The work group is dealing with proposals to improve the quality of business and investment framework to make Latvia more attractive place for investment.

Leader: Ingrīda Kariņa-Bērziņa (Cobalt)

Intellectual property protection work group reviews legislation related to intellectual property rights and gives its recommendation to the Latvian government for improvement of legal acts.

Leader: Andris Lazdiņš (AmCham), Irina Kostina (AmCham)

The work group has been working on policy and legal issues related to the quality of Latvia’s professional education, its compliance with the Latvia’s labour market needs, quality of skilled labour and smart immigration policy.

Leaders: Aija Kļavinska (Deloitte), Baiba Strupiša

Tax work group is working on issues related to tax administration and policy. The work group is closely following developments in Latvia’s tax system and tax administration, and actively coming up with proposals on how to improve the business environment and investment climate through changes and improvements in tax system and/or administration Predictable tax policy for business is one of the most crucial priorities.

Leaders: William Le Clere (French Foreign Trade Advisors), Jūlija Māsāne-Ose (KPMG)

The work group deals with issues related to transportation policy and logistics issues. The work group has been vocal in raising topics related with transparency of logistics policy and railway tariffs.