President LIOU participated in the conference “Ukraine – Austria. Business Opportunities and reliability of investments”
Date: 13.04.2016. Section: News LIOU, ActualApril 13 Chamber of Commerce of Ukraine jointly with the Austrian Agency «ABA Invest in Austria» and the law firm “Lavrynovych & Partners” held a conference “Ukraine – Austria. Business opportunities and reliability of investments. ” League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine was introduced by President LIOU Alexander Filonyuk.
LIOU President stressed that Ukraine and Austria, with close cultural, historical and geographical connections, support cooperation and interaction, develop long-term friendly and business – relationship. “One evidence of this development is the fact that more than 10 years ago, April 7, 2005 in Vienna, the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine and Austrian Union of Insurers (VVO) signed an agreement on cooperation and expressed their desire to develop cooperation in the field of insurance, involve experience of Austrian insurance market, and to promote the mutual opening of insurance markets of both countries “, – said Alexander Filonyuk.
Due to the words of President LIOU, “today the insurance business of Austria in Ukraine actively presented by subsidiaries of austrian group GRAWE – IC “Grave Ukraine” and “Grave Ukraine Life Insurance”; Insurance companies “UNIQA” and “UNIQA Life”, members of the UNIQA Group; Insurance company “Globus” and other insurance companies, members of the Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) ».
Among the key issues discussed during the international conference – the experience of the ukrainian companies to the EU market; Austria as a location for business – opportunities for Ukrainian companies; Ukrainian asset protection business using Austrian jurisdiction; types of investments and attractive investment properties in Austria. Also in program were regarded tax aspects of investment structures, separate time was devoted to questions and answers and personal communication of participants and speakers of the event.
Special guests of the conference – Austrian Ambassador to Ukraine Mrs. Hermina Poppeller and Ukraine’s Ambassador to Austria, Mr. Alexander Scherba.