April Luncheon featured our distinguished guest speaker Rashad Nabiyev,    the Chairman of Azercosmos OJSC who shared his overview on ‘Innovations in aerospace in Azerbaijan and further cooperation with United States’. Salans FMC SNR Denton, Genercon, ASPI Agro, BeSmart and The US-Educated Azerbaijani Alumni Association (“AAA”) made their luncheon presentations.Born in 1977, Rashad Nabiyev was appointed as the Chairman of Azercosmos OJSCo on January, 24, 2011 by the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. In this role, R. Nabiyev oversees the overall management of the Read More

 AmCham has previously briefed its members about the amendments in legislation on change in some of the migration practices. Especially, the registration of foreigners coming to Azerbaijan was amended and work permit application through ASAN Service (State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan) was enabled.Earlier we also informed our members that the Government of Azerbaijan is working on the Migration Code. To address members' questions related to the made amendments and changes AmCham in cooperation with Azerbaijan Lawyers’ Confederation (ALC) is organizing a meeting of members with officials of ASAN Service and State Read More

The committee meeting was called to discuss the following points:

• Review of Position Paper
• Quarterly E-newsletter on what’s on in Baku

Discussions on the ‘Asset management as a new tool for banks and the legal issues in the way of adoption of it’ was the main focus point of the committee meeting. Mr. Farid Rahimli, Head of Licensing and Supervision Department of State Securities Committee (SCS) was our guest speaker

AmCham CSR Committee meeting was called to discuss below points:

• Presentation of PwC on the results of CSR Conference and GRI training
• Presentation of the IDEA (International Dialogue for Environmental Action) Campaign

Main discussion points of the meeting were as following:

Feedback from the meeting with Social Protection Fund
Discussions of Tax Conference 2013
AmCham Survey on Tax Audit