YEREVAN, October 18. /ARKA/. The National Entrepreneurship Agenda was outlined Tuesday in Yerevan. 

The process of formation of the agenda was initiated by the Entrepreneurs' Interests Protection Network in 2016 and supported by the Centre for International Private Entrepreneurship. . 

The National Entrepreneurship Agenda is an important instrument for improvement of entrepreneurship environment and attraction of investments. 

The Entrepreneurs' Interests Protection Network is an informal association of noncommercial organizations engaged in development of private entrepreneurship in Armenia.  

Andranik Alexanyan, chairman of the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Yerevan, speaking at the first assembly convened to outline the agenda, said that the information that once could be brought to the state administration system is now assembled at the Network. 

«We wanted to collect Armenian entrepreneurs' opinions on a single platform and to submit them to the government,» he said. «The activity of the organization will be focused on several areas, which are most important for business people.»

In his words, the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Yerevan is ready to provide maximum support to this campaign. 

«We will identify all problems in this area and, having business people's interests at heart, we will present them to the government by joint efforts,» Alexanyan said. 

Gagik Poghosyan, a member of the board of the Entrepreneurs' Interests Protection Network, on his side, said that the idea of establishment of the Network was conceived yet a decade ago. 

«We has established the Network to solve some tax-related problems, but life shows that the business community face also other problems and that we should unite our efforts to solve them,» he said. 

«A few years ago, the Network identified the business community's major problems. Everything began from a survey, which revealed business people's opinions on various problems. Some 200 entrepreneurs in Yerevan and Armenia’s provinces were surveyed.»

As a result, he said, the three following top-priority directions were singled out for protection of business people's interests – the policy of effective development of small and mid-scale businesses in Armenia, creation of a favorable tax system and management reforms. -0—