met at the EBA office in Kyiv to gather key franchising experts representing the business sector as well as state authorities. The participants discussed the Draft Law on State Registration of Commercial Concession (franchising) Agreements to be elaborated by the State Department of Intellectual Property (hereinafter - SDIP) in collaboration with the EBA Franchising Working Group members.
Thus, the attendees managed to reach a consensus regarding the following burning issues: - types of commercial concession agreements to be registered without fail in the SDIP and respective amendments to be introduced to the Civil code and Economic Codes of Ukraine; - obligatory state registration of commercial concession agreements in view of the further state registration of sub-concession agreements; - state registration of franchising agreement termination; - publication of commercial concession (sub-concession) agreements, registered in the SDIP. Therefore, the participants agreed to elaborate and finalise the Draft Law including all EBA and SDIP comments and proposals and organise the next round table focusing on the final version of the above document in September 2008.
EBA HR Committee
at the EBA office in Kyiv, 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz. The meeting was devoted to summarising results of the EBA HR Committee activity in 2008. During this meeting the participants discussed the Committee priorities and action plan for 2009.
was held in Victoriya Hotel. Mr Ihor Sbitnev, the Chairman of the EBA Branch Board, greeted participants and wished them Happy New Year and Merry Christmas. He expressed hope that the next year would bring new opportunities and prospects for business development to the EBA members .
