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Appendix A Environmental Business Information Survey of Regional Environmental Companies

SECTION 1:

Please tell us about your company.

  1. On average, what percentage of your annual revenues is derived from the following activities? Please complete the following tables using approximate percentages.

    Prevention General Consulting Research/ Education Engineering Design Environmental Products Testing/ Monitoring Project Management
    Air Protection            
    Ground Water            
    Surface Water            
    Soil            
    Landscape            
    Nature Conservation            
    Other            

    Remediation and Control General Consulting Research/ Education Engineering Design Environmental Products Testing/ Monitoring Project Management
    Gaseous emissions            
    Industrial waste water            
    Municipal water            
    Industrial solid waste            
    Municipal solid waste            
    Industrial noise, safety            
    Other            

  2. What is your total annual turnover?
    RANGE LISTED IN LOCAL CURRENCY

  3. When was your company established?

  4. Is it privately controlled or state controlled?

  5. Is it a foreign joint venture?

  6. If it is a joint venture, what country is your venture partner from?

  7. How many full time employees are on the staff?

  8. How many part-time employees (e.g. contractors for special projects) do you have?

  9. What foreign languages does at least one staff member read, speak and write fluently? (mark all that apply)

  10. What type of office equipment does your company have? (mark all that apply)

SECTION TWO:

What are your information sources and needs?

  1. How do you find out about environmental business opportunities? (mark all that apply)

    Source

  2. Which environmental or business publications do you read regularly?

  3. What professional associations are you a member of?

  4. On average, how many conferences do members of your company attend annually? (please mark one)

  5. Please mark the reasons why someone from your company has attended a conference in the last year.

  6. How important do you think the following types of information are for your company? (please circle one)

    1 = very important * 2 = important * 3 = no opinion * 4 = somewhat important * 5 = not important at all
    Type of Information 1 2 3 4 5
    Announcements conferences or trade fairs in CEE 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental problems in the region 1 2 3 4 5
    Directory of CEE environmental companies 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental regulations 1 2 3 4 5
    Source of project financing 1 2 3 4 5
    Information on potencial project financing 1 2 3 4 5
    How to manage projects better 1 2 3 4 5
    How to control costs 1 2 3 4 5
    New environmental technologies 1 2 3 4 5
    Tenders for new projects 1 2 3 4 5
    Upcoming project news 1 2 3 4 5
    Information on where to find foreign partners 1 2 3 4 5
    Other_________________ 1 2 3 4 5

  7. Please rate the value to your company of the following services. (please circle one)

    1 = very important * 2 = important * 3 = no opinion * 4 = somewhat important * 5 = not important at all
    Type of Service 1 2 3 4 5
    A regular newsletter that includes regional environmental business news such as the topics contained in question 16 1 2 3 4 5
    A question & answer service available from telephone call or fax covering the topics contained in question 16 1 2 3 4 5
    A regional directory of environmental companies and product providers in print 1 2 3 4 5
    Local business coordinator to arrange meetings, contacts and workshops 1 2 3 4 5
    A computer database of information resources (containing data listed in question 16) available by modem 1 2 3 4 5
    A broadcast fax service to inform you about project opportunities in your company's field of interest 1 2 3 4 5
    Partnering workshops designed to introduce you to Western partners, government environmental officials and NGOs 1 2 3 4 5
    Conferences arranged to address specific environmental problems attended by other environmental businesses, government environmental officials and NGOs 1 2 3 4 5
    Other__________________ 1 2 3 4 5

  8. Please rate your interest in receiving advanced professional training on the following environmental management topics (please circle one)

    1 = not at all interested * 2 = rather not interested * 3 = interested * 4 = rather interested * 5 = very interested
    Type of Information 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental economic analysis 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental economic analysis 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental auditing 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmetnal impact assessment 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental management 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental regulation 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental risk assessment 1 2 3 4 5
    Environmental systems and sustainability 1 2 3 4 5
    Financing environmental investment 1 2 3 4 5
    Other 1 2 3 4 5

  9. In the past two years, what percentage of your business income was from foreign sources, not including your partners' contribution if any? (please mark one)

  10. If you have worked with a Western company as a project partner, how would you evaluate the experience? (please circle one)

    1 = strongly agree * 2 = agree * 3 = disagree * 4 = strongly disagree * 5 = no idea
    Type of Service 1 2 3 4 5
    Western firm understood local business practices 1 2 3 4 5
    Western firm understood our capabilities 1 2 3 4 5
    Western firm had good project management skills 1 2 3 4 5
    language differences made working together difficult 1 2 3 4 5

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