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On Thursday 18 June 2020, EuroCham held its Extraordinary and Annual General MeetingĀ in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The event had been postponed since March due to COVID-19. It gathered over 300 EuroCham members, and featured as special guest speaker the Head of the EU Delegation to Vietnam, Ambassador Giorgio Aliberti. Mr Aliberti updated EuroCham members about the ratification of the EVFTA and its imminent implementation. TheĀ members approved changes to the chamberās statutes; the minutes of the AGM 2019; the Auditorās Report 2019; the budget for 2020; and the auditor 2020 (please see the results HERE).Ā Members also voted in a new Executive Committee.
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The event heard updates from EuroChamās nine affiliated Business Associations and provincial chapters. EuroCham board members presented a detailed report on the chamberās activities in 2019-20. Highlights included EuroChamās engagement on the EVFTA, culminating in its ratification after positive votes inĀ the European Parliament andĀ in Vietnamās National Assembly. The chamber appeared in around 600 media articles in 2019-20 andĀ increased membership to 1,072.Ā It held a wide range of events in Hanoi and HCMC, as well asĀ co-ordination meetings with Business Associations. Furthermore, it saw the renewalĀ of the SEA IPR SME Helpdesk project. EuroCham also continued to strengthen its advocacy work, growing its number of Sector Committees to 17, increasing the level of engagement with Vietnamese authorities, and holding multipleĀ high-level Government meetings including with the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
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Through an audited ballot, a quorum of EuroCham members elected the new Executive Committee. These directly-elected candidates will serve for one term (following changes to the EuroCham statues reducing the length of the term of office) and will join nominated representatives from EuroChamās affiliated Business Associations to make up the Executive Committee 2020.
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8 Executive Committee Members elected at the 2020 AGM:
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7 Executive Committee Members nominatedĀ by Business Associations (in alphabetical order):
BELUXCHAM:Ā Jan Segers
CCIFV:Ā Jean-Jacques Bouflet
CEEC:Ā Nguyen Hai Minh
DBAV: Ywert Visser
GBA:Ā Torben Minko
ICHAM:Ā Tomaso Andreatta
NORDCHAM: Thue Quist Thomasen
Chair, Vice-Chairs, and Treasurer for 2020/21
Nicolas Audier (Audier & Partners LLC) was re-elected as EuroCham Chairman, with Vice-ChairsĀ Tomaso Andreatta (Intesa Sanpaolo), Guy Balza (OMG), Jean-Jacques Bouflet (individual member), Nguyen Hai Minh (Mazars) and Ywert Visser (individual member) also re-elected. Tomaso Andreatta wasĀ additionallyĀ elected as Treasurer, and Dr Stefano Pellegrino (Aspire) was re-elected as Secretary General.Ā
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The meeting, which took place on Wednesday the 24th of June in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, was the first Executive Committee (ExCo) meeting, and the new board also discussed priorities and actions for the upcoming months.
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