On May 22nd, EBA members held the General Assembly, in the exquisite atmosphere of the Poiana Winery. The goal of May assembly was to update the members on the activities undergone in 2017 and to highlight the updates from 2018.
Thomas Moser, EBA President, reiterated the successful year EBA has had and the progress the association has made in all areas of activity, aimed at improving the business environment, enhance the capacity of member companies and promote business between Moldova and the EU.
Mariana Rufa, EBA Executive Director, delivered a presentation focused on the 2017 Activity Review and the 2018 Updates, highlighting the key performance indicators on EBA operational activity, business environment issues approached in 2017, new EBA members, the activity within the Economic Council of the Prime Minister, EBA workshops, as well as other EBA activities in the local and international business environment.
HE Peter Michalko, EU Ambassador and Honorary President of EBA reiterated that EBA Moldova proved to be one of the leading business support organisations and one of the most active member on various Public Private Dialogue Platforms. Looking at reforms, he mentioned that EBA has continued and significantly increased promoting expectations of European and EU related economic agents and advocacy activities in a number of important sectors such as tax policy, food safety, trade facilitation, waste management, data protection which are aimed to support EU business and to bring European standards of doing business in Moldova.
Mr Michalko mentioned that results achieved so far by EBA Moldova represent and active involvement of Mr. Moser and the team led by Mrs. Rufa.
Mr. Moser thanked the Delegation for supporting the association’s initiatives.
After the presenting the 2017 annual review and the 2018 Update to the EBA members, Business Networking Reception was organized on this occasion. It was launched by welcome messages of HE Mr. Peter Michalko, Mr Thomas Moser and Mr Chiril Gaburuci , Minister of Economy and Infrastructure. The Reception was attended by a wider audience ,thus creating the occasion for the members to interact with the representatives of the public authorities, diplomatic corps as well as various international cooperation partners.