Baghdad on Rhine - Business Meeting in Bonn´s Parliament

Baghdad on Rhine 2005
German – Iraqi Business Meeting

Responsible: German Iraqi Business Association – Midan e.V.,
represented by its President, MBA Gelan Khulusi and Vice-President, Mark Brockhaus, Berrenrather Str.180, 50937 Cologne / Germany, www.midan.de

Patronage: Minister of Economics, Small Scale Business and Renewable Energy, Christa Thoben

Guest of Honour: Abdullah Saed, Secretary General for Economic Affairs of
President Talabani

Place: Bonn, International Congress Centre Bundeshaus Bonn, www.ikbb.de

Date/Time: December 9th, 2005 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Registration: please, download registration form at www.midan.de and send per Fax directly to Mr. Torsten Schlabach- coordinator Business Meeting: 00 49 (0) 221 – 41 27 13 and 00 49 (0) 203 - 935 28 56: more information contact Torsten.schlabach@midan.de
Programme:

9.00 – 9.30 a.m.: Registration of Participants (Registration of participants in bilingual partner-programme – only upon request and at extra charge!)

9.30 – 12.30 a.m.: Welcome of Participants
Overview: Business Potential in Iraq
o Basic Data on Iraq´s Economy
o Legal System
o The Law of Trade Marks in Arabic Countries with Special Emphasis on Iraq
o Status Quo of Financing
o Tendering and its Procedure
o Partnerships, Distribution, Joint Venture
o Doing Business in Iraq – Basic Social Rules
o Security of Persons and Objects in Iraq
o Environment, Education and Health- Economic Action Improves Living Standards
12.30- 1.30 p.m.: Lunch Buffet by Lohmeier & Deimel

2.00- 5.00: B2B-Consultations and Working Groups

5.00 p.m.: Closing of Business Meeting

5.00-6.00 p.m.: Break

6 p.m.: Opening of Baghdad on Rhine 2005 – The Case of Babylon


Procedure of Matchmaking for B2B Consultations:
In the framework of B2B-Consultations German and Iraqi business people will meet directly in person and individually matched within a confidential setting. To enhance effectiveness, both partners have been undergoing prior to the Meeting the special Midan profiling in order to ensure optimal congruence of capacities, potential and projects.

In detail Midan Matchmaking follows this procedure:

1. After signing in and payment of fee a Midan Coach will contact the participant for detailed profiling.
2. This profile is sent to our diversified Iraqi infrastructure inviting enrolment for Matchmaking.
3. To our experience the response in Iraq is immense. MIDAN will now analyse and screen these responses.
4. Those responses with the best potential will be closely analysed by our MIDAN-Offices in Iraq; profiles are completed, potentials and demands (e.g.: import, export, financing, know-how-transfer) brought to the point.
5. Only the 1-3 most promising candidates will be presented to the German participant. S/he may chose whether and whom to meet and invite(*) in the framework of our Business-Meeting.
6. The Iraqi partner(s) will, of course, come to the Business Meeting in Germany on their own costs and risks. (*)
(*) Based on the Visa-procedure established by the German Foreign Ministry a formal invitation by the German Partner for the Iraqi Partner is mandatory.
Important! This invitation is purely formal and does NOT impose any legal responsibility onto the German Partner!

Working Groups
Another speciality of our Business Meetings is our Working Groups.
Any Working Group aims at initiating / promoting / realising / finalizing a project in Iraq which is beyond the scope and capacities of a single player, but demands the close cooperation of a diversified team of governmental and non – governmental partners. To facilitate this cooperation representatives of these diversified German and Iraqi partners meet in closed shops, coached by Midan.
Working Groups are established on demand.
To Working Groups previous application is mandatory.
Projects of our Working Groups are, of course, followed up upon after the Business Meeting.





The following Working Groups are scheduled:

1. Working Group Medicine
By way of example, the Working Group on Medicine will serve as the focal point for German enterprises planning in joint action the establishment of a medical infrastructure to combat children’s leukaemia in the northern provinces of Iraq. Invited are enterprises specialising in related fields as well as concerned Iraqi decision makers in order to allow detailed discussion on how to cooperate with view to the preparation of tendering.

2. Working Group Construction
The Working Group on construction will reunite representatives from several branches of industry and government in order to enable joint action in projects beyond the capacity of individual members. Participants will be, inter alia, representatives from the Association of Kurdish Constructors.

3. Working Group Trade and Financing
In the Working Group on Financing participants will negotiate tenders and private projects and their financing .

Lawyer
Dorothea Khulusi
Board
Director of Programme Baghdad on Rhine
German – Iraqi Business Association
Midan e.V
Berrenrather Str. 180
50937 Cologne / Germany
mail to dorothea.khulusi(at)midan.de

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