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Joint Meeting of Chambers of Commerce

 

2012-01-24
Bucharest, Hotel Epoque

January 24th, 2012 - the meeting of chairpersons and management representatives of European Chambers of Commerce
 
In attendance:
Raymond Breden - Executive Chairman, British Romanian Chamber of Commerce
Daniela Apolozan - General Manager, French Chamber of Commerce in Romania
Roberto Musneci - Vice-President, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Romania
Serge Gonvers - Board Member, Chamber of Commerce Switzerland - Romania
Vassilis Ioannou - Board Member, Hellenic Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Mamas Koutsoyiannis - President, Bilateral chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania Cyprus
Radu Merica - President, German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Guy Poupet - Member of the Council of Administration, French Chamber of Commerce in Romania
Bruno Roche - President,  French Chamber of Commerce In Romania
Michalis Sotiriou - President,  Hellenic Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
HE Ambassador Michael Sternberg - President, Danish Romanian Business Association
Gentiana Avrigeanu - Executive Director, Chamber of Commerce Switzerland - Romania
Ioannis Alfieris - Economic Adviser, Hellenic Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Adrian Dimache - General Secretary, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Romania
Sebastian Metz - Manager, German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Diana Nastase - Executive Director, Hellenic Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Richard Reese  - Executive Director,  Netherlands-Romanian Chamber of Commerce
Agata Stefan - Executive Director Romania, British Romanian Chamber of Commerce
Razvan Stroe - Head of commercial department Danish Romanian Business Association
 
Apologies:
Peter De Ruiter - President, Netherlands-Romanian Chamber of Commerce
 
The meeting had the following agenda:
 
1.     Welcome by Raymond Breden
 
2.     Attendees to introduce themselves
 
3.     Joint Business Meetings
 
4.     Joint Social Mixers
 
5.     Joint Lobbying
 
6.     Any Other Business
 
7.     Date for next Dinner
 
 
BRCC Executive Chairman, Mr. Rareden and Richard Reese, Executive Director of the Netherlands Romania Chamber of Commerce welcomed the participants and briefed them on the agenda.
 
The participants welcomed the British and Dutch Chambers of Commerce’s initiative of coagulating the business environment.
 
Main goals of joint meetings are to offer the members the possibility of getting in touch, to share information, to draft list of topics where government’s engagement is necessary.
 
The participants agreed on several important issues:
 
- the need to draft a strategy for future action,
- to have a follow up meeting to discuss the strategy
- to share the programmes of activity and thus avoid overlapping of events; to discuss where and how it’s possible to organize some joint events; to indicate which events are open for other Chambers’ members
- to eliminate unnecessary duplication of topics of events
- to co-brand some events with the Chamber that has most expertise in the respective field
- the need to have a powerful organisation that represents a great part of the business environment and can be a partner for dialogue for government, authorities and other similar Romanian organisations.
 
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