The session was dedicated to the topic of “Risk assessment for purposes of building up a compliance system in the company: European experience in the Russian market”. Participants were Arina Sergievskaya, Head of Compliance, Daimler Kamaz Rus; Elena Zheltovskaya, Compliance director, Astra Zeneca Russia; Elena Barsukova, Manager Compliance RU, UA and KZ, Philip Morris Izhora; Nadezhda Kozyreva, Director, Compliance & Controls, Deutsche bank Russia, and Julia Glubokaya, Deputy Compliance director, Vimpelcom. They shared experiences and discussed challenges in the process of building compliance systems.   

This year, the AEB has also become a partner of the ICA Compliance Prize 2016 and is pleased to announce that the AEB Compliance & Ethics Committee’s member Alexey Muntyan, Personal Data Protection & IT Security Officer, DHL Express Russia, was awarded ICA Compliance Prize 2016 for his personal contribution to the promotion of compliance in the field of personal data protection. 

For the second year in a row, the AEB acts as an informational partner of the Conference which aims at discussing the unification of approaches of international organisations and government agencies to compliance regulation and supervision, and ranking the liability subject to presence or absence of compliance management systems. 

The AEB Compliance & Ethics Committee was established in 2015 to serve as a place where professionals from AEB members and different external stakeholders (incl. state bodies) can share and promote best practices via informational briefings, seminars, reports, regular compliance cases updates. Its key tasks are to assist AEB members i) to comply with their obligations under the international and local requirements in compliance area; ii) to facilitate, promote, monitor and aim to secure the implementation of the best compliance program and policies, iii) to foster the international understanding of applicable laws, including but not limited to laws addressing corruption, bribery, trade controls, and fair competition. Areas of the Committee’s interest include business ethics, regulatory issues, internal controls, governance and risk assessment and mitigation.

Upper photo L-R: Anton Subbot, AEB Compliance and Ethics Committee Chairman, Partner, Baker & McKenzie; Arina Sergievskaya, Head of Compliance, Daimler Kamaz Rus; Elena Zheltovskaya, Compliance director, Astra Zeneca Russia; Elena Barsukova, Manager Compliance RU, UA and KZ, Philip Morris Izhora; Nadezhda Kozyreva, Director, Compliance & Controls, Deutsche bank Russia, and Julia Glubokaya, Deputy Compliance director, Vimpelcom.

Lower photo: Anton Subbot awarding the ICA Compliance Prize 2016 to Alexey Muntyan, Personal Data Protection & IT Security Officer, DHL Express Russia