13 August 2001
Free Economic Zone "Brest" management gives go-ahead for two new projects

 The management of the Free Economic Zone (FEZ) "Brest" has given the go-ahead for the construction of a chocolate sweets plant in the FEZ.
The plant will be run by a Belarusian-Polish joint venture named BelBARD, which plans to produce up to 150 tons of sweets per month. Before building the plant, BelBARD intends to put out up to 60 tons of chocolate sweets for export at leased premises.
The FEZ management has also allowed company Olga1 to deploy
a facility in the FEZ to produce 18,000 heavy truck tire treads per year.
The two companies plan to employ a total of 70 people The FEZ in Brest currently has 91 resident enterprises, which reportedly manufactured 50 billion rubels worth of goods and paid 5 billion rubels in taxes in the first six months of the year.