Sarajevo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Sarajevo Chamber of Commerce and Industry was the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sarajevo in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .
Emergence
With the law of June 29, 1868 concerning the organization of the chambers of commerce and trade, the organization of the chambers in the Austrian Empire was basically confirmed and the tasks redefined. With the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary in 1908, Bosnia and Herzegovina became an Austrian crown land . Correspondingly, a Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established for Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the model of the chambers existing in the other crown lands.
tasks
The chambers should advise the wishes and proposals of the economy and present them to the ministries and authorities independently. They prepared statements on government bills as they related to commercial or commercial interests. The government could also ask the chambers to comment on economic issues.
The chambers kept the electoral registers of those entitled to vote to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the trademark and model archives and the business registrations. They collected the data for the trade statistics. The chambers participated in the examination and appointment of the commodity and bill brokers, the exchange councilors and the commercial court assessors. The chambers could be named as arbitration tribunals in commercial contracts.
Each chamber had to submit a comprehensive report to the Ministry of Commerce every year, in which the economic situation in the chamber district was described. The chambers provided trade statistics every five years.
organization
The Chambers of Commerce and Industry were subordinate to the Ministry of Commerce and had to implement its instructions. They were divided internally into a trade and a trade section (mining also belonged to the trade).
The chambers consisted of 16 to 48 actual members. The exact number of members was determined by the Ministry of Commerce depending on the size of the chamber district. In addition, the chamber was able to co-opt other members (without voting rights) as "correspondent members".
The election of the members was made by direct election by the traders and traders or the board members of corporations in the chamber district. The term of office was six years. Half of the Chamber was elected every three years on a revolving basis. There was a census right to vote : wholesalers and industrial companies were only eligible to vote if they paid income taxes of 100 guilders , other companies had lower limits. The choice was made in individual groups. These were determined by the ministry according to the number of voters in locations and trade or business classes.
The chamber elected a president who represented the chamber externally. It was financed through a contribution from companies in the chamber district. The Chamber prepared an annual budget and submitted it to the Ministry for approval. The sum was divided by the income tax revenue in the tax district and the resulting surcharge on the income tax was collected from the companies.
The Chamber President Nikola Berković had a virile vote in the state parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1910 to 1915 . His deputy, Jesua Salmon , was also elected to the state parliament in 1910.
In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the chamber remained. The chambers were no longer represented in parliament . In 1927 the chamber counted 21,661 commercial, 33,244 commercial and 479 industrial companies. She was responsible for all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Personalities
Chamber presidents
- Nikola Berković (1910-1918)
literature
- Richard von Kaufmann: The Representation of Economic Interests in the States of Europe, the Reorganization of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Formation of a Central Economic Organ in Germany, 2013, ISBN 9783642509308 , pp. 437-438, online
Individual evidence
- ^ State Handbook 1911, pp. 1223-1224
- ^ The economic cooperation of Yugoslavia; in: Marburger Zeitung of November 20, 1927, p. 9