 The EBA Legal Committee was established in 2002.The Committee members represent the EBA member legal companies as well as lawyers from other EBA member companies of various industries.
According to results of the Committee’s leadership election conducted in December 2007 the Committee reelected Ihor Olekhov, Senior Associate, of Baker & McKenzie to chair the Committee in 2008 and Yuri Kushnir, Partner with Danylko, Kushnir, Soltys & Yakymyak became the EBA Legal Committee Vice-Chair.
The EBA Legal Committee concentrates its efforts on a number of legal issues having an impact on the daily life of EBA members, such as: WTO accession legislation; financial markets; banking law; currency regulations; corporate governance; stock market; Competition Law; judicial system/litigation; law practice issues, Labour Law, etc.
The EBA Legal Committee sees its strategic objectives as follows:
- to maintain strong position of the EBA in securing legal interests of its members;
- to address various legal issues raised by the EBA members.
The EBA Legal Committee meetings stick to the first Wednesday of each month, at 6 p.m.
In May 2008 the Committee members prepared the Analytical Review IN FOCUS: Employment of the disabled persons. This document was prepared to examine the issue of mandatory employment of the disabled and regulatory requirements as to numbers of workplaces for the disabled at Ukrainian companies.
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