INTELLECTUAL RESOURCES, WORKING CONDITIONS, EDUCATION, CULTURE
The region can boast of a highly skilled workforce of 15,000 which represents a precious intellectual potential and a foundation for business development. An increase in the number of highly educated people is evident, whose knowledge, enthusiasm and their ability to speak foreign languages (mostly English, but also French, German and Italian) can contribute to successful investments.
Weekly working hours are 40 hours, and the maximum overtime work is 4 hours a day or 8 hours a week. The minimum break during the working day is 30 minutes, or 45 minutes for employees working more than 10 hours. The minimum weekend break is 24 hours, and the minimum annual leave is 20 days. The maximum paid leave is 5 days during one calendar year. The average monthly income in the region is:
GROSS – 320 EUR
NET- 218 EUR
Source: Republic Bureau of Statistics (August 2006)
In the territory, 28 secondary schools operate, 10 in the territory of the Kolubara district, and 18 in the territory of the Macva district. There are four grammar schools, providing general education, two art schools (music and arts and crafts), and secondary schools providing education and training for the engineering occupation.
As regards higher education, there are three schools providing education in the sphere of economics, agriculture and chemical engineering, which are all aligned with the new legislation governing higher education. Several departments of private faculties, whose headquarters are outside the region (in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Zrenjanin), operate in the region.
Cultural institutions in the territory include museums in three regional centers, Valjevo, Sabac, Loznica and specific museum displays within tourist sites in Tršic and Brankovina, and several community cultural centers which pursue set programs.
The theatrical art in this region is traditionally non-professional, except Sabac which has a professional theatre, while Valjevo and Loznica have amateur societies with a long-standing tradition that approaches professionalism.
UTILITY SERVICES
Thirty-three public utility companies operate in the territory of the Regional Chamber of Commerce Valjevo that render a full set of utility services for corporate residential customers. Electric power distribution services are rendered by the Elektroprivreda Srbije which operates on the Republic level.
In the major centers: Valjevo, Sabac and Loznica, public utility companies operate within special companies that provide the water supply, heating and hot water supply; while in the other 11 municipalities, public utility companies cover all the three fields.
According to the latest data as of 1 September 2006, the charges for utility services are presented in the following table:
WATER SUPPLY |
CHARGES FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS RANGE FROM
0,55 - 1 EUR PER M 3 |
WASTE DISPOSAL |
CHARGES FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS RANGE FROM
0,01 - 0,13 EUR PER M 3
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HEATING |
CHARGES FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS RANGE FROM
0,93 - 1,86 EUR PER M 2 |
ELECTRIC POWER |
CHARGES FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS IS
4,5 EUR PER KWH |
TELECOMUNICATIONS |
Telephony is digitized with about 150,000 connections and provides good connection towards transit and international automatic telephone exchanges. The node centers in Valjevo, Sabac and Loznica are connected to the national transmission system rings with up to 10 Gb/s capacity and to the regional rings with up to 2.5 Gb/s.
The region is covered by the ISDN network (Integrated Service Digital Network), able to offer xDSL connections (Digital Subscriber Loop) and most of the IN (Intelligent Network) platform services . There are several major internet providers operating in the region, with large broadband capacity in the national internet provider network, such as: PTT, Verat, Infograf, etc. Because of the big Back Bone enabled by “Telekom,” these providers can always increase their broadband capacities.
The network of the two mobile operators “Telekom” (064 and 065) and “Mobtel” (063 and 062) cover 90% of the territory of the region.
CHARGES FOR CORPORATE CUSTOMERS IS
0,007 EUR PER IMPULSE |
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