Through this survey, the EU Delegation to Zambia and COMESA and the EU Member States representations to Zambia aim to map the presence of EU private sector investments in Zambia, estimate their impact on the Zambian economy and identify the obstacles and opportunities for EU companies in Zambia. This exercise will reinforce the EU support to the Government and other partners to improve the business climate in the country. It will also be used to strengthen the public-private dialogue in Zambia. The information provided is confidential under EU data protection law and will only be treated statistically. The confidentiality clause applies to the entire questionnaire.

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1. Introduction

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2. What is your link to Europe? This exercise applies to the 27 members of the European Union 

  yes/no if yes, what country? if shareholders / capital, what %?
My firm has EU shareholders
My firm has EU capital
My firm is registered in the EU
My firm's headquarters are located in the EU
The EU is my main market  for imports and/or exports

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3. Main sector of activity

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4. How do you describe your  economic impact in Zambia? You can use estimates

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5. How would you describe your social impact in Zambia?

  How many actions do you organise per year?
 How much do you invest on these?
Environment and biodiversity actions (e.g. recycling, energy efficiency, organic production/consumption)
Social actions (e.g. equal wages, positive discrimination, fair trade, health insurance)
Innovation actions (e.g. internships, links with universities, transfer of technology)

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6. What motivated you to invest in Zambia?

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7. The importance of the Zambian market for your business is currently

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8. The importance of the regional market (SADC / COMESA) for your business is currently

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9. How do you see the Zambian market in the next 5 years?

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10. What is your main source of capital, both working capital and capital investments?

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11. What challenges do you face in doing business, investing or trading in Zambia?

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12. How do you classify the following aspects according to the restriction they represent to your business? Class them from strong (1) to weak (10).

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13. How has your business been affected by the COVID 19 crisis?

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14. What concrete steps could the EU take to improve the business environment and increase EU-Zambia exchanges?

Thank you for completing this survey. Click "Done" below to submit your responses.
Your contribution will help to identify the needs and limitations of the European private sector in Zambia and to better guide the public-private dialogue. For any questions regarding this survey, please contact Cristina.Banuta@eeas.europa.eu - EU Private Sector and Trade Advisor;  joseph.silavwe@eeas.europa.eu  - EU Programme Officer; or inescudero@gmail.com  - EU TPSD/E Investment advisor.

We are committed to protect your data and to respect your privacy. The Trade and Private Sector Facility collects and processes these replies pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the EU Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.Therefore we ensure that all responses are kept confidential. Data will only be presented in aggregated form (i.e. all data compiled) and respondents/individual companies cannot be identified.

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