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Rita Ramalho Senior Manager, Global Indicators Group (Development Economics) Zagreb, July 2018 2

Dealing with construction permits in Portugal LISBON BRAGA 1.3% of 0.8% of warehouse warehouse value value (€11,083) (€6,751) € 0.4 million saved per 100 constructions 259 DAYS 27 years saved per 100 constructions 160 DAYS 3

Which cities and indicators are measured? ✓ 25 cities ✓ 5 Doing Business indicators • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Enforcing contracts 4

Croatia’s smaller cities outperform their larger peers across the five regulatory areas measured Dealing with Starting a Getting Registering Enforcing construction business electricity property contracts permits Average Aggregate DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score City (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) 4 1 1 3 3 Varazdin 1 75.89 85.38 66.20 84.29 74.07 69.49 3 2 4 1 1 Osijek 2 75.68 85.50 61.10 81.70 75.86 74.24 2 2 2 2 4 Rijeka 3 74.45 87.59 61.10 82.87 75.02 65.67 5 4 5 3 2 Zagreb 4 72.47 82.49 54.77 80.43 74.07 70.60 1 5 3 5 5 Split 5 70.50 89.55 43.67 82.66 71.08 65.56 5

Across the five areas measured, doing business is easier in the Czech Republic’s largest cities Dealing with Starting a Getting Registering Enforcing construction business electricity property contracts permits Average DTF Aggrega DTF DTF DTF score DTF DTF te rank score Rank score Rank score Rank (0 – Rank score Rank score City (1 – 7) (0 – 100) (1 – 7) (0 – 100) (1 – 7) (0 – 100) (1 – 7) 100) (1 – 7) (0 – 100) (1 – 7) (0 – 100) Prague 1 7 5 1 6 1 74.24 83.55 56.17 95.35 79.74 56.38 Brno 2 4 1 2 2 7 72.88 84.55 57.90 89.92 80.10 51.95 Ostrava 3 3 3 3 1 3 69.67 85.31 56.89 69.89 80.22 56.05 Plzen 4 4 6 4 6 2 69.13 84.55 55.38 69.67 79.74 56.32 Usti nad Labem 5 1 2 5 2 5 69.11 85.56 57.24 67.70 80.10 54.96 Olomouc 6 1 7 6 4 4 68.54 85.56 54.45 67.09 79.98 55.64 7 4 4 7 4 6 Liberec 68.28 84.55 56.67 66.32 79.98 53.86 6

Differences in aggregate performance are minimal in Portugal — with less than two points between the highest and lowest ranking cities Dealing with Starting a Getting Registering Enforcing construction business electricity property contracts permits Average Aggrega DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF te rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score City (1 – 8) (0 – 100) (1 – 8) (0 – 100) (1 – 8) (0 – 100) (1 – 8) (0 – 100) (1 – 8) (0 – 100) (1 – 8) (0 – 100) 1 2 3 1 4 Ponta Delgada 1 80.37 90.88 73.59 85.12 79.43 72.82 1 3 5 5 3 Evora 2 80.20 90.88 73.53 84.19 79.19 73.23 1 6 4 1 4 Funchal 3 80.18 90.88 72.83 84.96 79.43 72.82 1 8 1 6 1 Coimbra 4 79.59 90.88 65.93 87.49 79.07 74.60 Porto 1 1 6 7 7 5 79.51 90.88 74.04 82.71 78.59 71.32 Lisbon 1 5 2 8 8 6 79.34 90.88 73.10 86.45 78.35 67.91 Faro 1 4 8 1 6 7 78.97 90.88 73.42 78.83 79.43 72.28 1 7 7 4 2 Braga 8 78.56 90.88 66.58 82.27 79.31 73.78 7

Except for Bratislava, all the cities in Slovakia rank at the top in at least one area Dealing with Starting a Getting Registering Enforcing construction business electricity property contracts permits Average Aggregate DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF DTF rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score Rank score City (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) (1 – 5) (0 – 100) 1 1 2 4 2 Presov 1 78.78 84.73 62.91 86.27 90.17 69.81 4 3 3 2 1 Kosice 2 78.19 83.72 60.74 85.29 91.24 69.95 1 5 1 3 4 Zilina 3 77.82 84.73 57.90 88.41 91.00 67.08 3 2 5 1 3 Trnava 4 76.96 83.98 61.39 80.07 91.48 67.90 5 4 4 4 5 Bratislava 5 76.16 81.97 59.33 83.19 90.17 66.12 8

Cities surpassing the EU average Registering Enforcing Getting Starting a Dealing with electricity property contracts construction business permits Osijek Osijek, Split, Osijek, Rijeka, Varaždin, Zagreb Rijeka, Varaždin Brno, Prague All cities Braga, Coimbra, Evora, Porto All cities All cities All cities Funchal, Lisbon, Ponta Delgada, Porto Bratislava, Kosice, All cities All cities Prešov, Zilina 9

The time required to start a business varies substantially among cities in Croatia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia 10

HITRO services are used in registering half or more of new limited liability companies in Split and Rijeka 11

On dealing with construction permits, all cities have processes that are more complex than the EU average 12

Obtaining construction permits in Split costs three times more than in Varazdin 13

Obtain a new electricity connection takes 2 months in Prague, but nearly 8 months in Usti nad Labem Prague Brno Olomouc Ostrava Plzeň Liberec Ústí nad Labem 0 50 100 150 200 250 Number of days 14

Getting electricity in Zilina is one month faster than in Bratislava 89 days Bratislava 5 procedures Zilina 56 days 4 procedures 15

The time required to register a property transfer varies substantially among the Croatian cities 16

Osijek (Croatia) & all Portuguese cities (except Lisbon and Porto) surpass the EU average on the time to enforce a contract 17

If all local good practices were adopted…. … Croatia would jump 11 places in the global ranking on the ease of doing business … …and Slovakia 9 places. 18

How has peer-to-peer learning worked in other member states? What did the Polish cities with the least efficient business registration learn from their peers with better practices 19

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