Dear Colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 11th Annual Conference of the European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF) that will be held in Belgrade on the 19th and 20th of June, 2008.

The Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA), as 2007/2008 presiding ECRF register, is indeed privileged to have the opportunity to organize this most important annual ECRF event, and I would like to express my sincere thanks to all ECRF members for giving us the opportunity to be your hosts.

We would be very grateful to all of you for taking the time off from your busy schedules and participate in the Conference, in order to discuss the priority issues on various business registration activities that will contribute to further development of ECRF and our friendly ties.

Hoping that you’ll find the conference rewarding, I wish you to go from our country with fond memories, not only of the city of Belgrade but also of the friendliness and the welcome of the Serbian people!

WELCOME TO SERBIA, WELCOME TO BELGRADE!

Zvonko Obradović,

2007/2008 President of the ECRF Steering Committee

Director of the Serbian Business Registers Agency.

The Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA), as 2007/2008 presiding ECRF register, is privileged to organize and host the 11th Annual Conference of the European Commerce Registers’ Forum, in Belgrade, on the 19th and 20th of June, 2008 (Invitation Letter of Mr. Zvonko Obradovic, SBRA Director and 2007/2008 President of the ECRF Steering Committee).

European Commerce Registers’ Forum is a non-profit, self-financing interest organization for co-operation in Europe, established eleven years ago by the European commerce registry authorities. Its purpose is to increase the competitiveness of the European business and industry, and to encourage and assist improvement in the administration of technical and practical procedures, laws and regulations administered by the business and commerce registers, through mutual cooperation, education, benchmarking and exchange of ideas, conferences and working groups.

At the present moment, it includes 29 European institutions that are in charge of business registration in the following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Jersey, Hungary, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Programme of the
11th Annual ECRF Conference
Republic of Serbia, Belgrade - June 18-20, 2008.

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS OF THE 11TH ANNUAL ECRF CONFERENCE
REGISTER. WORK. SUCCEED.

• Ms. Annika Bränström, Director-General, Swedish Companies Registration Office, and Ms. Stefka Dabijeva, Statistician, Swedish Companies Registration Office, presentation of the “ECRF SURVEY 2007”

• Mr. Julian Lamb, Director Registry, Jersey Financial Services Commission, Mr. Philip Balderson, Managing Director, Webreality, Jersey, and Mr. Jonathan Allo, Managing Director, Advertising International, Jersey, demonstration of the “RE-DESIGNED ECRF WEB SITE” (www.ecrforum.org)

• Mr. Nicholas Troy, Head of AML Unit, Jersey Financial Services Commission “EMERGING MONEY LAUNDERING TRENDS AND VULNERABILITIES PERTAINING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION”

• Mr. Anton Bartolo, Registrar of Companies, Malta Financial Services Authority  “THE ROLE OF BUSINESS REGISTERS IN THE PREVENTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING”

• Mr. Paul Reynolds, Head of Corporate Affairs UK Companies House, “COMBATING FRAUD IN THE UK”

• Ms. Tatjana Djurasinovic, Head of International and National Cooperation Department, Republic of Serbia Ministry of Finance - Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering “THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNITS IN COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORISM FINANCING”

• Dr. Viljar Peep, Head of Legislative Drafting and Development Division, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Estonia “ONLINE ONE-STOP-SHOP THROUGH THE ESTONIAN COMMERCIAL REGISTER”

• Mr. Heinz-Jürgen Held, Legal Advisor, Bundesanzeiger, Deutschland “SIMPLIFYING BUSINESS FOR SMEs IN THE AREAS OF ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING”

• Mr. Michael Hecker, Head of Legal Affairs and Human Resources, Bundesanzeiger Verlag “UNTERNEHMENSREGISTER" WEBPAGE”

• Mr. Arthur West, Head of Customer Insight, UK Companies House “OPTIMISING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE”

• Mr. Antonio Fanelli, Deputy Director, Private Sector Development Division, OECD “REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR SMALL ENTERPRISES IN THE WESTERN BALKANS, undertaken by the EC DG Enterprise and Industry and OECD’s Investment Compact for South East Europe”

• Mr. Andrei Mikhnev, Program Manager, Business Enabling Environment - IFC Advisory Services, Financial and Private Sector Development “REFORMING BUSINESS REGISTRATION REGULATORY PROCEDURES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL”

• Ms. Yara Salem, Team Leader, Doing Business Project, Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency World Bank and IFC “A LOOK INTO ‘DOING BUSINESS’ REFORMERS”

• Ms. Andreja Marusic,  President of the SBRA Management Board, Secretary of the Council for Regulatory Reform ”STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS REGISTRATIONS REFORMS: LESSONS FROM TEN COUNTRIES Country Case Studies on Business Registration Reform”

• Mr. Branko Radulovic, Senior Economic Advisor to the Council for Regulatory Reform of the Republic of Serbia “THE APPLICATION OF REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN THE BUSINESS REGISTRATION REFORMS”

• Ms. Annika Bränström, Director-General, Swedish Companies Registration Office and Ms. Lynn Lynch, Marketing Director, UK Companies House “WORLD CLASS”

• Mr. Piero Milani, Project Leader, InfoCamere BRITE Update - “HARMONIZED COMPANY DOSSIERS FOR E-PROCUREMENT”

• Ms. Simona Boscolo Bragadin, Product Manager, EBR “EUROPEAN BUSINESS REGISTER – EBR, NETWORK UPDATE”

• Mr. Richard G. Shaw, Director General, Corporations Canada and Chairman of the 2008 CRF Conference “UPDATE ON THE CRF 2008 CONFERENCE, Vancouver, BC Canada, March 31 - April 4, 2008”

• Mr. Julian Lamb, Director Registry, Jersey Financial Services Commission and IACA International Relations Section Chair “UPDATE ON THE IACA 2008 CONFERENCE”, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - May 18 - 22, 2008.



• Mr. Branislav Dobrosavljevic, CIO, SBRA, ”UPDATE ON THE 3RD XBRL ECRF CONFERENCE”

• Mr. Yves Gonner, Managing Director Registre de commerce et des Societes – RCS ”PRESENTATION OF THE LUXEMBURG REGISTRE DE COMMERCE ET DES SOCIETES – RCS, NEXT PRESIDING ECRF REGISTER”.