The Association of European Businesses, as member of the Advisory Council under the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Republic of Belarus, sent to the Ministry their comments and suggestions on the draft resolution of the Ministry of Taxes "On Amending the Decree of the Ministry of Taxes and Dues of the Republic of Belarus of January 3, 2019 No. 2".
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On January 24, 2020, a meeting of the Public Advisory (Expert) Council under the Ministry of Architecture and Construction took place. The agenda included discussion of the draft Decree of the Council of Ministers "On Amending Decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of March 21, 2014 No. 252" and the Decree of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction "On Amending the Decision of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus of May 2, 2014 No. 25".
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food supported the position of the Association of European Businesses on the incorrect title of section 2.30 “Plant protection products and other persistent organic pollutants to be used in laboratory-scale research, as well as a reference standard” for the list of goods for which the importation procedure has been established to the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, approved by the decision of the Board.
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At a meeting of the public advisory (expert) council for entrepreneurship development under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus, where licensing of certain types of activities was discussed, AEB Deputy Chairman Maria Karas spoke.
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The Association of European Businesses together with the State Scientific Institution “Research Economic Institute of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus”, with the support of the International Finance Corporation, held a training seminar on December 6, 2019 on the topic “Methods of working with the procedure for predicting the consequences of the adoption (publication) of regulatory legal acts”, designed for representatives of public authorities and administrations of the Republic of Belarus involved in the rule-making and law-making activity.
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On October 31, 2019, AEB Deputy Chairman Maria Karas participated in a meeting of the public advisory (expert) council on entrepreneurship development under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus.
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The Association of European Businesses together with the Lithuanian Business Confederation and the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is launching the CREAzone project in Belarus as part of the Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus cross-border cooperation program.
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The Association of European Businesses held the eighth Job Shadow Days-2019 initiative in Minsk. RABOTA.TUT.BY was a partner of JSD - a job search and recruitment service in Belarus.
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Maria Karas, AEB Deputy Chairman, spoke at a round table on April 3, “The Impact of PET Containers and Glass Packaging on the Investment and Export Potential of the Bottled Water and Soft Drinks Industry”.
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On April 2, 2019, a meeting with representatives of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was held at the AEB office. The organization is a forum where governments can exchange their experiences in resolving political problems, get answers to common questions, learn about the positive experiences of other countries and coordinate their national and foreign policies.
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On March 13, 2019, the annual general meeting of AEB members was held at the office of the Association of European Businesses.
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AEB Deputy Chairman Maria Karas took part in the first meeting of the Coordination Council of the EU-UNDP Project “Supporting local economic development in the Republic of Belarus”, which was held on March 1, 2019.
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On March 19, 2019, the companies included in the Plant Protection Committee discussed current issues of the committee's activities and adopted a work plan for 2019.
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On March 1, 2019, a meeting was held at the AEB office with representatives of bridgeast.eu, a company that helps Italian companies advance into the East European market.
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The Association of European Businesses is the key information partner of the Second Belarusian Forum on Crisis Management and Bankruptcy, which will be held in Minsk on February 28, 2019. In anticipation of the forum, Ekaterina Kubrak, a lawyer, co-organizer of the Second Forum on Crisis Management and Bankruptcy, spoke about the situation with the topic of bankruptcy in Belarus.
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AEB Deputy Chairman Maria Karas met with representatives of the World Bank - Chania Kronfall, a specialist in private sector issues, and Alina Monika Antochi, a senior specialist in private sector issues.
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AEB Deputy Chairman Maria Karas took part in the first National Forum on Sustainable Development, which was held at the President Hotel on January 24, 2019.
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The Association of European Business together with the Investment Consulting Agency AEB held an ethno-picnic on September 20, 2018 – the annual cultural event of the Association.
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A member of the Assosoation of European Business, the company JTI was awarded the title "Maecenas of the culture of Belarus 2017". The ceremony of honoring the participants of the republican action "MAecenas of culture of Belarus" was held in the Palace of the Republic. Honorary diplomas were presented to heads and representatives of organizations of different forms of ownership, which during the last year sponsored cultural organizations of the country.
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The Association for Intellectual Property Protection “BelBrand” became a new member of the AEB.
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The annual general meeting of the AEB members was held at the office of the Association of European Business on March 28, 2018.
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In accordance with the Decree of the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus No. 78 of March 13, 2018, the Association of European Business is included in the Public Advisory Council on entrepreneurship development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus.
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At the annual general meeting of the Global Compact Network in Belarus, which was held on March 14, 2018, the Coordinating Council was formed. From the non-profit sector, the Association of European Business was unanimously elected to the Coordinating Council.
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AlfaMilk joined the Association of European Business.
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The Association of European Business informs that Emerging Europe has opened the application process for the Emerging Europe Awards, which recognizes excellence and good practice in 23 countries, across a dozen categories divided into three groups: image building, social and economic growth.
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We wish you great victories in the business front lines in 2018 :)
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On November 28, 2017 the Association of European Business, together with other Belarusian companies, signed in a solemn atmosphere the "Agreement on the interaction of socially responsible companies in Belarus in the implementation of corporate social responsibility projects."
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The meeting of the Plant Protection Products Committee of the Association of European Business took place at the AEB office on November 15, 2017.
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The joint workshop of the Association of European Business and the Lithuanian Business Confederation was held on November 9, 2017 in the conference hall of the Renaissance Minsk Hotel. The theme of the workshop was «Maximizing capacity of BSOs and local authorities dialogue: towards inclusive decision-making».
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The AEB Deputy Chairman Maryna Barouka made a presentation to embassies’ representatives at the information meeting at the British Embassy in Minsk.
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Maryna Barouka, the Deputy Chairman of the Association of European Business, took part in the meeting of the working group on the investment image of the Republic of Belarus abroad under the FIAC, which was held on August 9, 2017. In her speech, she suggested Belarusian producers and investors to study the experience of European companies, which they use to improve their investment image outside Europe and the EU.
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The Association of European Business together with the Investment Consulting Agency AEB held the summer ethno-picnic on July 27, 2017 – the annual cultural event of the Association.
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The general meeting of the Association’s members was held on 7 June 2017 in the office of the Association of European Business.
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The company JTI, which representative is included in the Supervisory Board of the Association, became an honorary member of the Association of European Business.
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The company "Milkavita" joined the Association of European Business.
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Artdepartment became a new member of the Association of European Business.
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The annual general meeting of the Association’s members was held on 28 February 2017 in the office of the Association of European Business.
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A Belarusian-Lithuanian company «VLANPAK», which representative is included in the Supervisory Board of the Association, became an honorary member of the Association of European Business.
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The proposals of the Association of European Business are included in the work plan for 2017 on discussion of issues at meetings of the working group on improving the business environment in Belarus under the Advisory Council on Foreign Investments under the Council of Ministers.
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Foreign investors in Belarus have to deal with a variety of unexplained from their point of view government initiatives. On the one hand, they are aimed at protecting domestic producers, but on the other – they form the overall negative picture of doing business in Belarus. A striking example of the indirect (non-transparent) measures to support domestic producers is using assortment lists of products manufactured in Belarus, mandatory for the procurement by restaurants and cafes.
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The workshop «Maximizing capacity of BSOs and local authorities dialogue: towards inclusive decision-making» was held October 4, 2016 in the Renaissance Minsk Hotel. The event was organized by the Association of European Business thanks to the cooperation with the Lithuanian Business Confederation (Lietuvos Verslo Konfederacija).
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Maria Karas, Legal Adviser of the Association of European Business, took part in the series of training workshops on developing legislative framework for the environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment in line with the UNECE Espoo Convention and its Protocol on SEA in Belarus.
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Meeting of the working group on improving the business environment in the Republic of Belarus under the Advisory Council on Foreign Investment under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus will be held on 15 September 2016.
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The draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus «On the regulatory impact assessment of draft normative legal acts (their separate positions) affecting the business environment» was prepared and a public consultation was launched.
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The Association of European Business received a proposal from the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus to participate in the development of project proposals for promoting public-private partnership (PPP).
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Philips became a new member of the Association of European Business. Maryna Barouka, the Deputy Chairman of the AEB, during the ceremonial presentation of the certificate noticed that she was glad to see such a technology company among the participants of the Association.
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The Association of European Business held the meeting of the HR-committee on 29 March 2016 at which business representatives discussed the problems of personnel availability in Belarus and developed proposals to solve them.
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On the eve of the 3rd awarding ceremony on Corporate Social Responsibility the representatives of business and the third sector exchanged their views on the theme "Why is it impossible to cut the budgets for the Corporate Social Responsibility in crisis?" during a discussion organized on the initiative of the International Foundation "Idea" and the Association of European Businesses.
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24 students from the BSU, BSEU, BNTU, MSLU, BSUIR and The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President and 20 mentors from 8 companies and 2 business-associations took part in the Corporate Social Responsibility initiative the “Job Shadow Days”, which was held by the Association of European Business in November 2015.
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Round table "Introduction of excise taxes on non-alcoholic tonics: planned change in the law" was held by the Association of European Business in the conference hall of the hotel "Minsk" August 27, 2015. During the event the experts in business and healthcare discussed the feasibility of non-alcoholic beverage market regulation.
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The ethno-picnic of the Association of European Business took place on July 15, 2015 in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle in Strochitsy: representatives of the AEB member companies and partner organizations visited the museum tour, learned to dance Belarusian dances, listened to folk songs performed by Vurai and tried the most delicious Belarusian dishes.
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The Representative office of Syngenta Agro Services AG (Swiss Confederation) in the Republic of Belarus became a member of the Association of European Business.
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ABB became a member of the Association of European Business. ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, the company employs about 140,000 people and operates in approximately 100 countries. The firm’s shares are traded on the stock exchanges of Zurich, Stockholm and New York.
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On April 29, a sectoral discussion "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Small and Medium Businesses". Experts from Belarus and Ukraine, as well as representatives of the private sector, international and Belarusian state institutions, discussed application of CSR principles in small and medium enterprises to develop commercial companies and ensure their economic growth. The discussion in Minsk was organized by the ODB (Brussels) in partnership with the Association of European Business (Minsk).
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The Association of European Business took part in the XVI Business Assembly in Minsk on March 4, 2015.
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AEB member companies and employees of the AEB attended the IV International Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility organized by the Fund Idea on February 26. The Association of European Businesses co-organized the Forum and brought Mr. Christian Katholnigg, the managing director of the Austrian CSR Company International, to speak at the event.
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The Association of European Businesses in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy organized a workshop Corporate Governance: Prospects for Development in the Republic of Belarus for the representatives of state authorities and state enterprises on February 19, 2015.
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The Association of European Businesses joined the Global Compact Local Network, the most important CSR initiative that unites 12,000 companies and organizations in 140 countries.
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Maryna Barouka, the Deputy Chairman of the AEB, became a member of the public advisory board under the Department of Tourism, Ministry of Sports and Tourism of Belarus.
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The Association of European Business held the roundtable How Belarusian Can Help in Business on January 15, 2015. Business representatives and experts from different fields discussed the use of Belarusian in business, office management, and advertising.
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From September to January 2014, the Association of European Businesses held classes of business Belarusian for its members and other Belarusian and foreign companies. Andrei Paddubski, the head of the international transportation and logistics group of companies “Fabeas”, was a guest speaker in one of the classes and shared his experience of using the Belarusian languagein business and supporting Belarusian public initiatives.
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The Association of European Businessesestablished a working group to translate standard legal documents required for business into Belarusian. In particular, the experts translated ten most used documents: certificate of completion, power of attorney, commission agreement, sales contract, contract for services, job appointment order, minutes of a meeting, employment contract, invoice and statute.
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In January 2015, Zubr Capital became a member of the Association of European Business. Zubr Capital is the first professional private firm that manages private equity funds in the Republic of Belarus.
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The AEB welcomes TRIMM medical (Minsk), a member of the group of companies Trimm-Medicine focused primarily on the Belarusian market. Trimm medical represents the interests of companies Maico (Germany), Stephan (Germany), Tredex (Ukraine), and Weinmann (Germany).
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The Association of European Businessesstarted preparing a public report on its activities in 2014. Following the example of the leading European associations and companies, we want to widely announce our mission and attract attention of the companies who share our goals. Public report is one of the tools to demonstrate transparency and openness of our non-profit organization.
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More and more companies join the Association of European Businesses! In December 2014, the audit company Baker Tilly Bel became our member. The company has been operating in Belarus since 2004. It is an independent member of the international audit and consulting network Baker Tilly International.
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The Association of European Business invited experts from the Ministry of Commerce to speak at the Advertising Committee on December 12, 2014. This meeting of the committee focused on planned changes inlegislation on advertising, practical aspects of advertising, the Concept of Outdoor Advertisingin Minsk in 2008 - 2015, and bidding for the right to place outdoor advertising.
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The Association of European Businesses commented the draft decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus On Public Contract on Business Incubation of Small Businesses in Science, Technology and Innovation and the draft resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on public contract on business incubation.
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On Thursday, November 27, the Association of European Businesses in cooperation with the expats community InterNations held a second joint business cocktail in the wine bar of the Europe hotel. Business cocktails gather heads of foreign representative offices, foreign companies and companies with foreign capital in Belarus, members and partners of the AEB, as well as embassies of the EU countries to establish business contacts, further business partnerships and just for informal communication.
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The Association of European Businesses together with an expert Denis Sanko held a panel discussion on best practices in management of organizational changes on November 27, 2014.
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On November 27, 2014, a meeting of the Public Environmental Coordination Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus took place. The Deputy Chairman of the AEB Maryna Barouka spoke on behalf of the Association.
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The Association of European Businesses organized the round table at the end of Job Shadow Days on November 26, 2014. Mentors and "shadows" shared their experience gained during the initiative.
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On November 25, 2014,the Association of European Businesses held a roundtable Protection Mechanisms of the Internal Market: Problems and Prospects in President Hotel, Minsk. Beer and soft drinks producers, Ministry of Taxation, State Marks Department of the Ministry of Finance, the Eurasian Economic Commission, Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, law offices Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners and leading economic media attended the event.
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The Association of European Businesses and the State Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining of Customs Bodies of the Republic of Belarus held the workshop on customs regulations on November 20, 2014.
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As a part ofthe Global Entrepreneurship Weekin Belarus the Association of European Businesses held a panel discussion Public-Private Partnership as a Factor in the Investment Climate in Belarus.
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Press conference at the beginning of the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Belarus 2014 (GEW 2014) was held on November 17, 2014. Organizers and partners of GEW 2014 told the media about the main events of the week.
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The Association of European Business, the Swedish Institute and the Belarusian State University held a training workshop Gender Rights and Opportunities on November 13. The workshop participants discussed the challenges that today's men and women in Belarus face and the implementation of the National Action Plan of the Government on Gender Equality for 2011-2015.
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Annual Kastrycnicki Economic Forum took place in Minskon November 4th-5th at Europe Hotel. The Association of European Businesses, one of the partners of the Forum, organized a round table Belarus: Long-term Challenges and Possible Solutions and a reception to celebrate opening of the Forum and the fifth anniversary of the AEB.
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Another meeting of the Public Advisory Council under the Ministry of Taxes and Dues of Belarus took place on October 31, 2014. Yauhen Mardasevich, the Head of GR with the AEB, and Maryna Dymovich, the Head of Legal with the AEB, took part in the discussion.
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We hereby have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the Job Shadow Days which will take place during the week of November 17th, 2014. This CSR initiative will be implemented in cooperation with the Swedish Institute.
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Yauhen Mardasevich, the Head of GR with the Association of European Business, spoke at the first meeting of the student scientific laboratory at the Belarusian State Economic University under the project Expert Opinion on October 24.
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Now the Association of European Business can assist European companies in public-private partnership projects in Belarus. Maryna Barouka, the Deputy Chairman of the Association, completed the training on the theory and practice of implementation of public-private partnership (PPP) projects.
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The Association of European Business joined the Advisory Board under the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of Belarus. Maryna Barouka, the Deputy Chairman of the AEB, was officially listed as a member of the Board.
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On October 8, 2014, representatives of business, civil society organizations and educational institutions discussed innovative approaches to corporate social responsibility in Belarus in the office of the Association of European Businesses. The event was organized under the auspices of the Swedish Institute.
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At the meeting with participation of the Ambassador of Finland to Lithuania and Belarus Harri Mäki-Reinikka of October 3, 2014, Finnish companies and investors discussed the business climate in Belarus and current projects on bilateral cooperation between our countries.
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Another meeting of the Sectorial Council of Management Qualifications took place on September 30, 2014. Yauhen Mardasevich, Head of GR with the Association of European Businesses, is a member of the Council and took part in the meeting.
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The Association of European Business took part in the seminar Business Opportunities of the Republic of Belarus, which was held in the conference room of Swedbanka AS in Riga on September 17, 2014. The seminar was organized by the The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA).
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On September 23, 2014, the draft law on collection and private bailiffs was discussed at the regular meeting of the Public Advisory (Expert) Board at the Ministry of Justice chaired by Igor Tushinsky, the Deputy Minister of Justice. Yauhen Mardasevich, the Head of GR with the Association of European Business, took part in the work of the Board.
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AEB experts held a series of meetings with the heads of Lithuanian private companies, business associations and chambers of commerce on September 15-16, 2014.
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On September 4, 2014, we held a workshop Green Offices as a part of four SI alumni events in Minsk under the support ofthe Swedish Institute in partnership with the Belarusian State University and the Association of European Businesses (AEB) during the European Intercultural Festival.The workshop Green Offices, which was organized by Maryna Barouka, Ph.D.,associate professor of BSU, Deputy Chairman of the AEB, and Liudmila Fakeyeva, Ph.D., associate professor of BSU, brought together business, civil society organizations and other stakeholders to discuss how to make offices more environmentally friendly and economical. British American Tobacco, a member of the AEB, Phillips-Belarus, Office for Democratic Belarus and the International Public Association “Ecoproject “Partnership” were partners and experts to the workshop.
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On August 28th, the Association of European Business held its Foreign Economic Activity Committee. This time, the Committee focused its attention on current issues of advance payments in foreign trade contracts and related problems.
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On August 26, the Hotel Crowne Plaza Minsk hosted a seminar for government officials on excise taxation of tobacco products in different countries, including the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC). The seminar was organized by the Association of European Business under support of JTI (Japan Tobacco International), the member of the Association.
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On August 15, the Association of European Businesses hosted a mediation workshop. JTI, Pedersen & Partners, IPM Business School, Representative Office of "E-Engineering", OPTIMED, Ciklum Minsk, ALBION, School of aesthetic education, Exchange of organizational development, Belarusian Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, as well as eminent mediation experts Lilia Vlasova, the Head of Center of Mediation and Negotiation, and Marina Boyko, the Head of Mediation Services were among the workshop participants.
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On Friday 15th August, the Association of European Business and the InterNations Community for expats in Belarus hosted the first joint business networking event in the wine bar of the hotel ‘’Europe’’.
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The Association of European Businesses joined the discussion of the draft law on charity. On August 7, Maryna Dymovich, the head of legal with the Association, took part in a working meeting to discuss the draft Concept of the Law On Public Benefiting Activities, which is being prepared by International Educational Public Association Act.
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Travelling back in time in Belarus is possible! This learned the guests of the ethno-picnic Journey to the Past organized by the Association of European Business for its members and friends on July 17 in the unique Skansen-type museum Strochitsy.
The professional guides, whose stories allowed imagining the life of the Belarusians in the 18th – 19th centuries in every detail, accompanied the guests through the amazing atmosphere of the Belarusian village created in the open-air museum.
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The Association of European Business (AEB) took part in the meeting of the Latvian business club held on June 12th at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Belarus.
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НR – committee, new initiatives, new development
On May 27th, the Association of European Business united HR-representatives of the leading international and Belarusian companies for the second meeting of its HR-Committee.
Committees are regular meetings of professionals who gather once a month in the offices of the Association to discuss problems common for a given area of business, to work on finding solutions, as well as to support interests of the committee’s participants. The HR-Committee works on improving business environment in the HR sector under the auspices of the Association. Lola Trapsch, Country Manager at Pedersen&Partners, is the moderator of the HR-Committee.
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The Association of European Business will take part in the first congress on public-private partnership Public-Private Partnership Days in Belarus, which is to be held in Minsk, Belarus on
May 27 – 30, 2014. The congress will discuss relevant practices and recent governmental legal and policy initiatives in the area of public-private partnership by various international finance institutions.
The congress was organized under the joint project of the EU, the UNDP and the Ministry of Economy of Belarus Capacity Development to Support Implementation of Public-Private Partnership in Belarus.
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The business club France-Belarus will facilitate trade and economic cooperation between the two states, head of the club Patrick Burdonne said at the opening ceremony of this public organization on 5 February.
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The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) will assist Belarus in improving its investment attractiveness for investors so that by the time of the 79th IEC General Assembly in October 2015 Belarus could demonstrate concrete investment projects, Yuri Pashnik, Secretary of the Belarusian National Committee at the IEC, Director of OAO BELLIS Testing and Certification of Home Appliances and Industrial Products, told reporters on 29 January.
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From November 18th to 24th 2013 the Global Entrepreneurship Week took place in Minsk, organized by BEL.BIZ. Association of European Business in Belarus was a partner and the sponsor of the Corporation day on November 19th, and also initiated a round table “Innovations as the national economy strategy”. The participants exchanged their views on current situation and prospects of introduction of innovations in the national economy, as well as on specificity of innovative entrepreneurship in Belarus.
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On the 5th of November the IPM Research Center holds a conference "New Opportunities or Old Challenges? Scenarios for Belarus Economy". It is a first event organized within Kastryčnicky Ekanamičny Forum (KEF), designed as a new open platform for professional dialogue on Belarus’ sustainable development.
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Any successful business is based on timely, complete and unbiased information on the market, its potential and risks, competitive environment, etc. It is precisely such information – specific and practice-focused – which foreign companies and businessmen are so often short of while taking decision of developing their business in Belarus.
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Associations of European Business exist in over 20 countries of the world. They have no single structure and are not united by any coordinator. The idea of creating an AEB in Belarus belongs to the Head of IPM Pavel Daneyko.
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