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Event with JCC in Zurich on sanctions, limitations on business, options for businesses.

JCC Roundtable on “Business Approaches in a Sanctions Landscape” in Zürich.   Practical insights into options businesses have, what legal framework they navigate in, how sanctions and countermeasures limit them.Bringing light into hot topics like: is it possible to continue, is leaving still possible and under what conditions? What are others doing, how and why? […]

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AHK Business Breakfast for General Directors

On 20.04.2023 general directors from the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce (AHK) member companies met for a business breakfast to discuss the situation on the Russian markets in various fields: logistics, marketing, IT, and others. The participants discussed the reality of doing business during the sanctions, exchanged their experience of compliance issues and new business opportunities. […]

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AHK Skills Club Event

On 17.04.2023, German-Russian Chamber of Commerce (AHK) members met for the first time for a newly created event format called AHK Skills. The format is aimed at sharing best practices and instruments for doing business more effective.  The first session was devoted to design thinking. Professor Dr. Ing. Manfred Esser from GET Information Technology Group […]

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Cancellation of compulsory PCR test for foreigners arriving to Russia

The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection, Rospotrebnadzor, has cancelled the obligation for foreigners to have a negative COVID PCR test when entering the Russian Federation, as well as the former requirement to have a negative test for unvaccinated Russian citizens returning home. Please note that there is still an obligation for foreigners […]

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Andreas Bitzi re-elected Chairman of the AEB’s SME Committee and Deputy Chairman of the AEB’s Northwestern Regional Committee.

Andreas Bitzi, owner and director of Quality Partners, has been re-elected as Chairman of the Association of European Businesses’ (AEB) SME Committee and as Deputy Chairman of the AEB’s Northwestern Regional Committee. Andreas has been Chairman of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Committee for the last two years. The committee supports and promotes the […]

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Committee activities in July 2021

In July, Quality Partners’ managing director, Andreas Bitzi, actively participated in different committee activities of AEB and AHK. As chairman of the compliance committee, there was a monthly meeting which gave insights in the potential criminal and administrative liabilities of general directors of Russian legal entities. The compliance committee strives to raise awareness of the […]

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AEB Event: Localisation of Production in St. Petersburg – Challenges & Opportunities

On 12 April, the Association of European Businesses held a roundtable event on Localisation of Production in St. Petersburg – Challenges & Opportunities at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) SPb, Novoorlovskaia. Andreas Bitzi, Chairman of the AEB in the Northwest and managing director at quality partners, held the opening words, with and introduction into the […]

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Event at Lipetsk Special Economic Zone

On Wednesday April 10 quality partners held a seminar in Lipetsk for the residents of the Special Economic Zone on how to secure your brand in Russia, describing advantages and pecularities of license agreements. The topic has been looked at from different angeles such as taxation, accounting, legal and customs. The active participants got contributions from Irina […]

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