The opening ceremony and seminar on the occasion of the official commencement of the EU funded Twinning Project “Strengthening the Regulatory and Supervisory Capacity of the Financial Regulators” will take place on Tuesday 15 December 2009 at 09:00.
The speakers at the seminar will be Igor Lukšić Ph.D., Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance, Clive Rumbold, Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro, Ivan Iskrov, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, Ljubiša Krgović, Governor of the Central Bank of Montenegro, Carel van den Berg, Coordinator the Center for Technical Cooperation, Central Bank of the Netherlands, Zoran Đikanović, President of the Council of the Securities Commission and Vladimir Kavarić, President of the Council of the Insurance Supervision Agency. The moderator of the seminar will be Daniela Bobeva, Project Leader, Bulgarian National Bank. First part of the seminar from 09:00 to 11:15 will be open for media representatives.
The objectives of the Twinning Project are aimed at improving the efficiency of institutional and regulatory capacities of financial regulators to supervise financial markets in line with the Acquis Communautaire. The Project will be implemented in four core areas: banking system supervision and financial stability; area of securities and pension funds; insurance; as well as prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing and other forms of financial crimes.
The beneficiary institutions are the Central Bank of Montenegro, the Securities Commission, and the Insurance Supervision Agency.
This Project is funded under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) and managed by the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro.
Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro
PR Service of the Ministry of Finance
Central Bank of Montenegro
Securities Commission
Insurance Supervision Agency
