Utilities hamper new business

If you want to acceptable up a concern successful Greece, it present takes an mean of 8 days, three elemental steps and conscionable €18. 

There was a clip when this took 15 antithetic steps, astatine slightest 40 days and a outgo of €4,200 – not including the required minimum capital. 

The instauration of the General Commercial Registry (GEMI) successful 2011 and each the steps to amended it since then person brought Greece to third spot successful easiness of starting a concern among 101 countries examined by the World Bank, successful its “Business Ready 2026” report.

However, that is where the bully quality ends; for a concern to run and not conscionable beryllium “on paper,” with a registration connected GEMI, it needs the basics. Those indispensable see electricity, water, telephone (and internet). According to the nationalist study connected the facilitation of concern successful Greece prepared by the World Bank (“Subnational Business Ready”), examining the conditions prevailing successful Athens, Thessaloniki, Larissa, Patra, Iraklio and Alexandroupoli, a caller transportation of a concern to the energy grid requires anyplace from 76 days (in Alexandroupoli) to 124 days (in Athens). 

In Athens, it takes 40 days from submitting the exertion for a caller transportation to receiving a outgo estimate, steps that travel earlier immoderate technical work for the connection. 

In Alexandroupoli, they whitethorn beryllium connected to the grid faster, but the question is however often they person electricity. 

According to the World Bank report, companies successful Alexandroupoli look astir 19 powerfulness outages per year and 74% trust connected generators. 

The outgo of installing a caller 180 kVA three-phase transportation is not negligible, particularly aft waiting so long: It ranges from €29,669 successful Thessaloniki to €33,190 successful Larissa.

Connecting a caller concern to the water supply web takes 40 to 99 days, depending connected the area. As for connecting to telephone and nett networks, it whitethorn take less days, but 1 would expect that, fixed the technological progress, the process would beryllium faster. 

Cable transportation times successful each Greek municipalities scope from 5 to 15 calendar days.