AmCham St. Petersburg News

• Mar 30, 2010 AmCham Annual Meeting 2010
• Mar 25, 2010 Tax Committee meeting
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  AmCham office
  
  Date, time & agenda TBC
• Mar 18, 2010 HR Committee Meeting

  9 a.m.
  AmCham office
  
  Date, time & agenda TBC

• Mar 17, 2010 Environment, Health & Safety Committee meeting
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  AmCham office
  
  Meeting with Deputy Head of Rospotrebnadzor – Deputy Chief Sanitary Inspector for Leningrad Oblast, Sergey A.Gorbanev
• Mar 15, 2010 Call for input — Customs Posts Closing
  As we have been informed that the Vyborgsky Customs Post is not to re-open until the date of its official shutdown, and another order on closing the Piskarevsky Customs Post is expected to be signed this week, we share the business community’s fear that these actions may cause significant problems with customs clearance, and are distributing this call for input...
• Mar 10, 2010 Round-Table with CEDIPT Chair E. Elin at St. Petersburg Technical Fair
  On March 10–12, Lenexpo is traditionally hosting St. Petersburg Technical Fair 2010, a big event involving a representative exhibition, top-level Industrial Forum, Partneriat business contact exchange, and other events and activities.
  
  Within the Fair and its Petersburg Industrial Congress, St. Petersburg Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade and AmCham St. Petersburg co-organized a joint panel discussion “Investment Climate, Competitiveness and Cooperation” featuring Evgeny ELIN, Chairman, St. Petersburg Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade, following the opening plenary...
• Mar 02, 2010 Customs & Transportation Committee meeting
  The Customs & Transportation Committee in March held a seminar on “E-Declaration and Advance Informing via the Internet” featuring North-West Customs Administration officers...
• Feb 25, 2010 Environment, Health & Safety Committee Meeting

  The Committee met with Deputy Head of Rospotrebnadzor – Deputy Chief Sanitary Inspector for St. Petersburg Alexander V. MELTZER (presentation available)...

• Feb 18, 2010 AmCham St. Petersburg Strategic Convention
  We are permanently working on improving our operations and increasing return on your membership fees. In order to better understand your needs and serve them, we would like to invite the primary representatives of AmCham St. Petersburg member companies to AmCham St. Petersburg’s strategic convention...
• Feb 10, 2010 Tax Committee meeting
  9 a.m.
  AmCham office
  
  Date, time and agenda TBC
• Feb 05, 2010 Rostechnadzor providing List of Waste Depositories
  On Jan. 1, 2010, the Russian federal law 309-FZ of Dec. 30, 2008 amending the environmental legislation came into force. Its Art. 33 item 3 subitem “d” prohibits waste disposal in any location but listed in the State Register of Waste Deposits...
• Feb 05, 2010 Customs & Transportation Committee meeting
  The meeting discussed issues of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan presented by Wilhelmina Shavshina (DLA Piper) and held the committee co-chairs’ election...
• Feb 04, 2010 Environment, Health & Safety Subcommittee meeting
  The meeting will feature presentations on “Improved occupational safety and health system in North West Russia International Labor Organization (ILO) Project — implementation perspectives” and “Organization of regular medical check-ups in provision of occupational safety and prophylactics of professional diseases”.
  
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  AmCham office
• Feb 02, 2010 IT Committee meeting
  The first 2010 meeting discussed the issues of development of IT professionals; export control for dual-use technologies; creating AmCham St. Petersburg’s social media online; and an AIESEC’s project “IT 2 days”....
• Jan 28, 2010 HR Committee meeting
  The HR Committee meeting discussed employee benefit programs as well as pensionary legislation and companys' operational isseues related to it. A presentation of Summer Internships in the U.S. program was made and topics for the committee meetings in HR defined.
  

• Jan 26, 2010 Automotive Subcommittee Launching Meeting
  With the number of AmCham member companies representing the automotive industry having significantly grown, it occurred to the Chapter that their common issues should be resolved by a separate Automotive Subcommittee within the Manufacturing Committee launched this morning...
• Jan 12, 2010 Meeting with FAS Head I. Artemiev — Transcript & Call for Contributors
  As you remember, late in November an ad hoc working group on vertical agreements convened to consolidate issues of members’ concerns, which then were passed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service through AmCham Moscow. In December, the FAS head Igor Artemiev met with AmCham members in Moscow and answered their questions, incl. those submitted prior to the meeting. Attached please find the transcript of the meeting (Russian only). Further to the meeting, FAS invited AmCham members to continue the dialog...
• Dec 17, 2009 Tax Seminar

  AmCham member companies’ leading consultants presented latest trends and developments in tax legislation and application practices. The participants were welcomed by Eduard V. Batanov, chairman of St. Petersburg Committee of Finance.

• Dec 15, 2009 Holiday Party

  Over 200 members and friends of the Chapter convened in the Corinthia Hotel St. Petersburg to share the upcoming Holidays’ cheer...

• Dec 15, 2009 Investment & Legal Committee Meeting

  AmCham St. Petersburg members met with Alexey B. Chichkanov, the newly appointed chairman of St. Petersburg Committee for Investments & Strategic Projects, who presented the Committee’s priorities and answered members’ questions on issues within the realm of the Committee’s activities, such as strategic investment projects and investment infrastructure support; public-private partnership projects; tourism and hospitality industry; etc.

• Dec 04, 2009 IT Committee meeting
  The IT Committee members discussed the idea of an IT academy aimed at meeting the industry’s training needs (reported by Alexander Andreev, SoftJoys); received an update on recent trends in federal incentives for IT from Alexander Egorov, Reksoft, and provided input for CEDIPT’s IT Cluster Development Program.
• Dec 03, 2009 Ad hoc working group to Tax Seminar
  The working group convened the member companies’ representatives willing to speak at the upcoming Tax Seminar to discuss the agenda.
• Dec 02, 2009 HR Committee Meeting
  The HR Committee members convened to further discuss the cooperation between businesses and vocational schools aimed at better “blue-collar” supply.
• Dec 01, 2009 Manufacturing Committee Meeting
  The Manufacturing Committee members met with Lt. Col. Yury A. Blokhin, head of the State Fire Inspection Organization Dept. – deputy head of the State Fire Inspection Directorate (Gospozhnadzor), St. Petersburg Main Directorate of the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief (GU MChS); and elected Franz-Xaver Haller (BSH Bytowije Pribory) and Andrey Stupin (Electrolux) as the new co-chairs.
• Nov 27, 2009 PR Committee meeting
  The PR Committee invited press secretaries of regional authorities: Svetlana Yarkova (St. Petersburg Vice Governor M. Oseyevsky), Alexander Butenin (Leningrad Oblast Vice Governor G. Dvas), Vera Kheifets (St. Petersburg Committee for Investment & Strategic Progects) and Olga Volkova (St. Petersburg Committee for External Relations) to discuss the trilateral cooperation between businesses, public authorities and media.
• Nov 26, 2009 Environment, Health & Safety Subcommittee
  The Environment, Health & Safety Subcommittee continued discussing issues of waste management in terms of upcoming changes to the relevant legislation.
• Nov 20, 2009 Ad Hoc working group meeting on vertical agreements
  AmCham members convened to discuss regulatory issues of the so-called vertical agreements.
• Nov 11, 2009 HR Committee Meeting
  The committee members pursued the issue of motivation of candidates in times of crisis; and discussed corporate events in terms of motivation & cost saving...
• Nov 03, 2009 IT Committee meeting
  At the meeting, the IT Committee rounded up the discussion and finalized its suggestions on support for innovative industries started at the conference “Innovative Economy: Business Outlook” co-organized by AmCham St. Petersburg and Institute of Contemporary Development within the framework of the Russian Innovation Week, and followed up at the October meeting.
• Oct 30, 2009 Annual AmCham Labor Market Seminar
  This year’s seminar was entitled “Specifics of Labor Relations in the New Economic Conditions” and featured guest speakers of St. Petersburg State Labor Inspection, Olga Gazina, Deputy Head for Legal Issues, and Igor Belyaev, Head of Labor Safety Dept. The seminar traditionally united member companies’ leading legal professionals to speak to AmCham members on the hottest issues on the agenda...