An objective of the article is presentation of behaviours of the municipalities as regards development in their territory of foreign investments. Grounds for the analysis are both secondary data derived from the official statistics and published analyses of various research centres and the results of research of the Institute of Home Market and Consumption (IR- WiK) undertaken in 2002 and 2005. They allow making a conclusion on ever growing activity of the municipalities as regards creating the conditions conductive to development of foreign investments. The municipalities see the need to undertake actions in this area but not always they are able to overcome a number of barriers and remove obstacles that are a result of many-year negligence. Besides alteration of the attitude of local authorities, very important is also financial provision of actions. Assistance is offered by the EU structural funds, State budge''s resources and financial institutions offering preferential credits and loans.