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GENERAL DIGEST #128 Monday, 16 November 2009 |
Annual General Membership Meeting (AGMM) - NEXT WEEK |
| The EBA Annual General Membership Meeting (AGMM) will take place on Thursday, 26 November 2009, at 17:00 (the Ball Room, InterContinental Hotel, 2A Vel.Zhytomirska street in Kyiv). To see the provisional agenda for the meeting please click here. You are kindly invited to attend the AGMM and vote for 7 new EBA Board members who will replace those elected in 2008 for two years. The rest of the Board members will keep their posts for another year (elected in late 2008 for two years). We thank the EBA members who forwarded their nominations to the EBA Board. You may get the full list of all candidates with their CVs below: 1. ABEA, Beate Schober 2. BASF, Hans Bestmann 3. CFC, Konstantin Gridin 4. DANONE, Dario Marchetti 5. DELOITTE & TOUCHE, Volodymyr Vakht 6. DRAGON CAPITAL, Tomas Fiala 7. HSBC, Seitjan Ermekbaev 8. HYATT REGENCY KYIV, Gordon Campbell 9. ING, Hans Grisel 10. KNAUF INSULATION, Andriy Pavlyk 11. KPMG, Floris Schuring 12. NOKIAN TYRES, Igor Bogdanov 13. PEPSI/SANDORA, Neil Sturrock 14. PHILIP MORRIS, Elena Khomenko 15. RAIFFEISENBANKAVAL, Vladimir Lavrenchuk 16. SYNGENTA, Nigel Thwaites 17. THE WILLARD, Mike Willard |
Please note: - The EBA Board elections are governed by the EBA Internal Rules and Procedures based on the EBA Charter. - Only Full Members in good standing can vote and be elected. - One EBA Member Company can only cast one vote per maximum 7 candidates
Please, register at events@eba.com.ua no later than November 20, 18:00. Look forward to seeing you all soon. |
Upcoming Events
| Tuesday, 17/11, 16:00 Joint meeting of the Registration Subcommittee and Clinical Trials Subcommittee of the EBA Health Care Committee Hotel Vozdvizhenskiy 60 Vozdvizhenska St, Kyiv Tuesday, 17/11, 16:00 Round Table: Changes in Labour Legislation - new procedure of obtaining work permits for foreigners - EBA Odesa Branch jointly with ICC. Museum of Literature 2 Langeronivska St, Odesa Tuesday, 17/11, 17:00 EBA Tax Committee EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz Wednesday, 18/11, 11:00 EBA Mineral Wool Insulation Committee EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz Wednesday, 18/11, 17:00 EBA Marketing Committee EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz Wednesday, 18/11, 19:00 EBA - After Work Lounge - EBA Western Ukrainian Branch The Most Expensive Galician Restaurant 14 Rynok Sq, 2nd floor, Lviv |
Wednesday, 18/11, 19:15 EBA Evening School: Smooth Business Communications - EBA Kharkiv Branch International House 7 Bazhanova St, Kharkiv Thursday-Friday, 19-20/11, 9:00 International Forum: Modern Innovation Policy: situation, problems and development prospects – with the EBA information support - EBA Dnipropetrovsk Branch Scientific Industrial Corporation 34 Budivelnykiv St, Dnipropetrovsk Thursday, 19/11, 16:00 EBA Fuel and Energy Committee EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz Thursday, 19/11, 16:00 Round table: Improvement of permission system - EBA Zhytomyr Branch Place to be confirmed Thursday, 19/11, 17:00 PricewaterhouseCoopers Ukraine (PwC) Business Session - EBA Donetsk Branch Regional Financial Consulting 7A Universitetskaya St, Donetsk Friday, 20/11, 9:30 EBA Regulatory Affairs Committee EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz |
Friday, 20/11, 10:00 Conference: Crewing in Ukraine: prospects and possibilities – with EBA informational support - EBA Odesa Branch Regional Financial Consulting 7A Universitetskaya St, Donetsk Friday, 20/11, 11:00 EBA General Meeting with Sergey Tigipko Radisson Sas Hotel Kiev 22 Yaroslaviv Val, Kyiv Friday, 20/11, 17:00 EBA Marketing and PR School in memory of Robert Reed EBA office in Kyiv 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz Friday, 20/11, 17:00 Evening School: Doing Business in English - EBA Odesa Branch International House 15 Marshala Govorova St, Odesa Saturday, 21/11, 10:00 EBA School: Smooth Business Communications - EBA Kharkiv Branch International House 7 Bazhanova St, Kharkiv Monday, 23/11, 18:00 EBA Board meeting Hyatt Regency Kiev 5A Tarasova St, Kyiv |
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| 24 November 2009 EBA Business Battle |
| European Business Association knows that: • our members are smart! • our members are ambitious! • our members are lucky! Another exciting intellectual game Business Battle will take place on 24 November, 19:00 in Barsky Night Club! 4 teams will take part in this battle: - AMM/Vizeum Ukraine - HLB Ukraine - Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine - SBC If you wish to watch/cheer/support the teams please register at events@eba.com.ua by 23 November, 17:00. |
 Please note that the game will be played in Ukrainian/Russian. If you wish to take part in the next battle please send the application form at events@eba.com.ua or by fax at 496 06 02 by 23 November, 17:00. When emotions are running high only cool minds will find the answer! Need more information? Call us at +380 44 496 0601, you are welcome to contact Kateryna Dermenzhi. |
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| From now on conducting meetings in a familiar business environment of the EBA office is available for all of you. Our office conference room which is now open for rent on a chargeable basis can be used for private meetings as well as for conferences, seminars and trainings (maximum capacity of the conference room is 50 persons). |
In addition, to make your stay in EBA office more comfortable we kindly offer the following services: serving tea/coffee breaks, providing technical equipment for the meetings, providing copying and printing services during the meeting. For more information please contact the EBA Office manager Yelena Yevstafyeva at office@eba.com.ua. |
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| 02-11-2009. Celenia is open for co-working Celenia Software Ukraine offers a fully equipped office space for sublease in Business Centre near Lukianivska metro station. The total area for rent is 500 sq.m., short-term and partial rent options are available. The office is kept clean and in order throughout the day, with 24h access and high-speed internet. Read more >> |
 Read more about EBA B2B Bulletin Board. |
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| 11 November 2009 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) presented Transition Report 2009. Transition Report 2009 was presented to the audience among which were many EBA members. Transition Report is the EBRD’s annual update on reform progress and economic developments across 29 countries from central Europe to central Asia, that focuses on the challenges posed by the crisis: both for the countries directly, and for the economic strategies that they have followed since the collapses of communism. Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain the global financial and economic crisis has put the transition region to an unprecedented test. Many countries are suffering severe recessions. But systemic crises have been avoided and previous reforms have not been reversed. The report addresses the question how the crisis has unfolded in the region and how recent developments are challenging our understanding of the transition process. |
 Trade and financial integration, for a long time the major drivers of growth and development, have become sources of vulnerability.However, close integration has also meant that few investments in the region have been reversed, helping prevent the worst. The year 2010 should see a return to modest growth in most of the EBRD region. Medium-term growth prospects remain dependent on institutional reforms, integration, improved regulation, increased competitiveness and economic diversification. The report analyses the remaining “transition gaps” in these and other areas in detail, drawing on a wealth previously unpublished information. Those who wish to receive the presentation “EBRD Transition Report 2009: Transition in Crisis?” please send your inquiries to: events@eba.com.ua. |
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| 9 November 2009 EBA Agrochemical Committee The Committee members discussed outcomes of the meeting with the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine and further actions required to lobby for respective legislative amendments. Also the Committee approved amendments to the Committee Statement envisaging associative membership of the Committee. 10 November 2009 EBA Life Insurance Committee The Committee members discussed the outcomes of the previous meeting with Mrs. Halyna Tretyakova from the State Commission on Financial Services Markets. Also the Committee members considered requirements to life insurers’ reporting to ensure transparency at the life insurance market and further actions required to accelerate the Pension Reform in Ukraine. 12 November 2009 EBA Real Estate Committee This time we had several points on the agenda. These are namely: - Discussion of mortgage bonds as new financial instruments of funds’ raising in construction projects (presentation made by Mrs Natalia Dotsenko-Bilous of Vasil Kisil and Partners and Mr Stanislav Dubko of National Rating Agency Credit Rating); - Discussion of certain issues touched upon in the reply to the EBA proposals received from the State |
 Committee for Land Resources.In view of second point of agenda Committee members lively discussed the reply of the State Committee for Land Resources related to the EBA proposal as for making changes to the Law on State Expertise of Land Arrangement Documentation in part of shortening the term of such expertise from 20 to 7 days. Also at the meeting candidates for the position of the EBA Real Estate Committee Chair had an opportunity to introduce themselves. 13 November 2009 Ad-hoc Meeting of the EBA Agrochemical Committee The participants of the meeting discussed the feedback received from the Ministry of Environmental Protection to the Committee proposals on amendments to the currently applicable legislation in terms of IP rights protection during the registration of agrochemicals and pesticides. Moreover the Committee members considered further actions required to lobby respective legislative amendments in particular to arrange an interdepartmental meeting inviting the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Ministry of Environmental protection and other respective authorities. |
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| DTZ - Property Times Ukraine, 11/2009 Ernst & Young - Outpacing change, 11/2009 |
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P. - Ukraine Law ALERT, II edition, 11/2009 Vasil Kisil & Partners - Corporate & Financial Legal Alert, 11/2009 |
| Those interested in getting acquainted with varied experience of our members and reading their analytical reviews, please go here to view all the reports available. If your company would like to have its analytical reviews posted on our website, please do not hesitate to contact the EBA office. |
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| 19-20 November 2009 International Forum Current innovation policy:
status, problems and evolution prospects 19-20 November 2009 on the basis of Scientific-industrial corporation "VESTA" (49055, Dnipropetrovsk, Budivel’nykiv Str., 34) the International Forum "Current innovation policy: status, problems and evolution prospects" will be held. Organizers: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine jointly with the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH with representatives of central and local executive bodies, not governmental organizations, local and foreign experts Read more >> 23 November 2009 KSE Open Academic Lecture  “Why Do Bad Things Happen to (Seemingly) Good Countries? First Empirical Evidence from Recent Crisis” by Dr. Iikka Korhonen, Head of the Institute for Economies in Transition, Bank of Finland 23 November 2009, 18.00, Radisson SAS Hotel (22 Yaroslaviv Val, Kyiv). Participation is free of charge. To participate please register at www.kse.org.ua. Read more >> 3-4 December 2009 V International Economic Forum “Discover Donbass”  |
The Forum starts at 10:00 in the conference-hall of Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 87 Kyivskiy Ave, Donetsk. Organisers: the Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the support of local authorities and leading national and regional companies, EBA. Read more >> 3 December 2009 BUSINESS PROSPECTS IN UKRAINE 
Thursday 3 December 2009,3.30pm – 7.30pm Bryan Cave LLP, 88 Wood Street, London EC2V 7AJ Ukraine is the second largest market in Europe and the biggest in Eastern Europe with 46m consumers. This country is an exciting and promising market,ideally positioned to reach the Russian,CIS and European markets. Its economy has experienced positive growth in recent years and bilateral trade figures are growing despite the economic downturn.In 2008 British exports to Ukraine rose by 31% to £574m and Ukrainian exports to the UK by 38% to £179m. Read more >> 8-9 December 2009 International Forum Invest in Kharkiv  The first-priority task of the Forum - is to show investing possibilities of Kharkiv region and to give assistance in mobilization of investments into the projects, connected with Euro-2012. Read more >> |
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| Pre-information Notice published under Eastern Partnership Culture Programme The Pre-information Notice has been published (EuropeAid/129262/C/SER/MULTI) in view of the forthcoming contract to set up the Regional Monitoring and Support Unit for the regional Eastern Partnership Culture Programme. The Support Unit, whose aim will be to boost the impact of the programme and enhance regional co-operation, is due to focus on the following tasks. Read more >> Tempus Information Days in Ukraine The National Tempus Office in Ukraine (NTO) in close cooperation with the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has announced the registration for the Tempus Information Days. Tempus InfoDays will provide an opportunity to raise awareness among higher education institutions of the possibilities offered by the European Educational Programs. Read more >> Selection results Tempus IV - Second call for proposals The selection results of the second Call for Proposals to be funded from Tempus IV have now been finalised. Totally 69 proposals have been recommended for funding from the Tempus grant. 11 projects are with participation of the Ukrainian Universities: 8 Joint Projects including 3 national ones and 3 Structural Measures projects are among them. Read more >> |
EU and Iraq: successful completion of negotiations on historic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement The European Commission and Iraq today successfully finalised negotiations on the text of a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the Republic of Iraq. The deal establishes a comprehensive platform for enhancing ties and cooperation in a wide range of areas. Read more >> Environment: Keeping ecosystems healthy makes economic sense and is vital to control climate change, says Commissioner Dimas EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas will today underline the importance of valuing the benefits we derive from nature in order to protect them more effectively. Nature provides numerous services for free, like water regulation flood protection and carbon storage. Read more >> IEA's World Energy Outlook 2009 confirms EU energy and climate policies are on the right track The International Energy Agency (IEA) has recognised the contribution of the EU energy policies in the fight against climate change but highlighted that if global temperature rise is to be kept below 2 ° Celsius, much remains to be done. This is one of the main messages of a presentation of the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2009 for European Commission high level officials, hosted by Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs today. Read more >> |
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| 10 November 2009 Asters Partner Vadym Samoilenko Initiating Discussions of JSC Law Amendments at the Corporate Law Forum Vadym Samoilenko, a partner with Asters Law Firm, delivered a presentation at the ²²² Annual Corporate Law Forum held in Kyiv on October 30, 2009 and hosted by the Ukrainian Bar Association in partnership with Asters Law Firm. The Forum has proven to be the key event in Ukraine for corporate law professionals. Attending the event were over 100 invitees, including practicing lawyers from Ukraine and Russia, scholars, judges, government officials, businessmen, and mass media reporters. Read more >> 9 November 2009 Magisters Appoints New Moscow Partner and Establishes German Desk Magisters, a leading CIS-based law firm, announced today the appointment of Clemens Schlotter from Beiten Burkhardt as a Partner and Head of German Desk. Magisters has become the first CIS-based law firm to have taken on a German Partner to establish the German Desk in its office in Moscow, Russia. The Desk will focus on providing top-notch legal advice to companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland having interest in Russia and the CIS. Before joining Magisters, Mr. Schlotter specialised in M&A and Corporate as Partner with Beiten Burkhardt, Moscow. Read more >> 10 November 2009 Former employees a growing IT security threat Reprisals from recently departed employees and a lack of adequate security budgets and resources are becoming major concerns for senior IT professionals, according to the 12th annual Ernst & Young 2009 Global Information Security Survey. The survey, which canvassed nearly 1,900 senior executives in more than 60 countries, revealed that 75% of respondents are concerned with possible reprisals from employees who have recently left their organizations. Read more >> 11 November 2009 Global corporates looking to invest heavily in cleantech – Ernst & Young Despite ongoing uncertainty about the global economic situation, spending by the world’s biggest companies to develop or acquire cleantech solutions is robust and primed to accelerate, according to a new Ernst & Young survey of more than 300 corporate executives worldwide. Cleantech Matters highlights the critical role corporations will play in shaping the industry’s next stage of development as it looks to find ways to bridge the chasm between the laboratory and the marketplace. Read more >> 11 November 2009 Oleg Makarov is elected on Best Lawyers Advisory Board Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For a quarter century, it has helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The Best Lawyers Board of Advisors includes legal luminaries from almost every major world economy as well as general counsel from global companies with business on every continent. Read more >> 11 November 2009 Sayenko Kharenko – legal counsel on Naftogas external debt restructuring Sayenko Kharenko acted as a Ukrainian legal counsel to Credit Suisse, the deal manager on the complex restructuring of NJC “Naftogas of Ukraine” (Naftogas) external debt. Naftogas successfully completed the restructuring by the way of exchange of its bilateral loans in the amount of USD 1.1 billion and existing LPNs in the amount of USD 500 million, which |
were due on 30 September 2009, into a single issue of securities to be guaranteed by the state. This transaction so far has been the largest debt restructuring in the Ukrainian market. Read more >> 11 November 2009 “Star Barmen” are for beer culture Brewers are sure that only responsible beer drinking, in a civilized manner and with correct pouring, can bring real pleasure. Star barmen as well as guests of cozy restaurant “Kommunalna Kvartira” made certain of that. Restaurateurs Margarita Sichkar and Viola Kim, TV presenters Tala Kalatay and Tatiana Goncharova, showmen Angey Burym and Dilya participated in Draught Master Competition of Stella Artois NA and 9-step pouring ritual of perfection. At that evening celebrities changed into “star barmen” to pour and serve beer for guests and to demonstrate high culture of age-old beer traditions. Read more >> 13 November 2009 McHappy Day started in McDonald’s In November 2009 McDonald’s started traditional charitable event “McHappy Day”. Since 2002 together with International Charitable Fund “Ukraine 3000” McDonalds Ukraine directed charitable assistance in the amount of 4 100 000 UAH to purchase medical equipment for 40 children’s hospitals in 19 cities of Ukraine. This year McDonald’s raises money to buy defibrillators for regional children hospitals in 20 cities of Ukraine. I invite you to join McHappy Day and to make your own donation – you may buy special paper “hearts”, rubber bracelets and trinkets in period of November 1-30 in any McDonald’s restaurant. Read more >> 16 November 2009 Humer Monodose: Nose is Breathing – Child is Healthy! Ukrainians has already received an ideal French remedy for everyday nasal cavity hygiene of infants: Delta Medical started distribution of Humer Monodose (Laboratoires URGO) in Ukrainian pharmacies. Humer, containing 100% of isotonic sea water, is very popular among customers in Ukraine, where it has already found its faithful followers. Both adults and children know how convenient it is for the procedure of “nasal shower” and effective as a preventive treatment in ENT infections, ARVI, influenza, for treatment of different types of rhinitis. Read more >> 9 November 2009 Daniel Bilak speaks at the Russia and CIS Hotel Investment Forum Daniel Bilak, partner of the Kyiv office of CMS Cameron McKenna and the head of the CMS Cameron McKenna Hotels & Leisure sector practice in Central and Eastern Europe, spoke at the recent Russia and CIS Hotel Investment Forum which took place in St-Petersburg, Russia, on 25-27 October 2009. CMS was a gold sponsor of the event. Other speakers and participants from CMS were Tom Page, the Head of Hotel & Leisure Sector Group from the London office of CMS Cameron McKenna, as well as Elizabeth Pestl, Ivan Gritsenko, Dominigue Tissot, Ernest Agayan and Galina Gedrovich from our CMS Moscow office, and Olga Zaplatinska from CMS Cameron McKenna Kyiv office. Read more >> 9 November 2009 Conference “The Stock Market and the Law on Joint Stock Companies” Date: 24 November 2009, Kyiv. Venue: Sigma Bleyzer conference hall, Kyiv, 4-A Basseynaya Str., “Mandarin Plaza”, 8 floor. Work hours: 11:00 – 15:00. Registration: deadline - 20 November 2009. Target Audience: issuing companies, members of the Board and heads of legal departments of Joint Stock companies, representatives of state authorities. Participation is free of charge. Organizers: Expert Ukraine Magazine and Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk, Law Group supported by Sigma Bleyzer. Read more >> |
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