Endorsed Seminar: Trade Controls; current challenges and critical issues from a US and EU perspective, 20 June, The Hague

Published: June 13, 2017

Recent international developments have broad implications for economic sanctions and export control regulation, posing a whole range of new challenges for European businesses. E.g. will the new US administration stick to or break with established US trade control policies and what could be the implications for our trade with Russia and Iran? Can we predict the consequences of a ‘hard Brexit’ and will it be possible for EU companies to anticipate? These, and more, questions call for an update on trade controls from both a US and EU perspective.

The seminar specifically aims at pinpointing important developments and showing the practical consequences for day-to-day business in the field of economic sanctions and export controls, both from a US and EU law perspective. 

Speakers

Ms Adjoa Linzy, Senior Enforcement Officer, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), US Department of the Treasury, Washington DC
Mr André Hermsen, Corporate Compliance & Risk Officer, Fokker Technologies Holding
Mr Jeroen Jochems, Director Trade Controls Compliance, Royal DSM
Ms Susan Kovarovics, Lawyer/Partner, Bryan Cave, Washington DC
Mr Bert Gevers, Lawyer/Partner, Loyens & Loeff, Brussels
Mr Gerard Kreijen, Senior Associate, Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam
Kim Lucassen, Lawyer/Partner, Loyens & Loeff, Rotterdam

Preliminary programme

13.00 Registration

13.30 Welcome and introduction

Trade controls – current challenges and critical issues from a US & EU perspective
Ms Susan Kovarovics, Bryan Cave 
Mr Bert Gevers, Loyens & Loeff 
Mr Gerard Kreijen, Loyens & Loeff

14.15 Key priorities of the US trade control regime and implications for international business
Ms Adjoa Linzy, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

15.00 Coffee break

15.15 Trade controls and data protection: what are the challenges for business?
Ms Kim Lucassen, Loyens & Loeff
Ms Susan Kovarovics, Bryan Cave

15.35 Dealing with trade policy on a day-to-day basis
Mr Jeroen Jochems, Royal DSM

16.15 Unlicensed exports and self-disclosure
Mr André Hermsen, Fokker Technologies Holding

16.55 Panel discussion and Q&A

17.30 Concluding remarks - Drinks & networking

Registration

Target audience

Corporate compliance officers and legal and tax counsel of large and mid-sized companies with an international business presence, including financial institutions/banks, seeking to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of US and EU trade controls.

Venue

Bezuidenhoutseweg 12, Den Haag (Malietoren)

Language

English

Registration

Please register here

Registration fee

AmCham the Netherlands members: €350,- (excluding VAT/BTW, including training material and drinks)

Registration (on a first come, first serve basis) is extended to and will thus close on Monday 19 June 2017, 08.00 am. Registrations cancelled after Tuesday 6 June 2017 will be charged in full.

Endorsed Seminar: Trade Controls; current challenges and critical issues from a US and EU perspective, 20 June, The Hague