The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESESSMED) represented by Mrs Monia SKhiri (Secretary General), participated in the informal Euro-Mediterranean Meeting, which took place in Paris on July 8th 2008 at the Ministry of Economy at Bercy. This meeting was axed on the preparation of the seventh Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Industry, which is to take place in Nice on November 5-6-7 2008. 

The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESESSMED) represented by Mrs Monia SKhiri, (Secretary General), participated in the meeting of the High Supervision Council of IPEMED, which took place in Paris on July 7th 2008. This meeting was an opportunity to introduce the Supervision Council of IPEMed so as to enlarge its composition to all the countries in the Region.

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises co-organised with the French MEDEF,BUSINESEUROPE, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Marseille Provence – CCIMP, UPE 13 and the city of Marseille the 3rd Mediterranean Competitiveness Day Med Business Days around the central topic « The Enterprise, Boosting the Mediterranean »;this took place in Marseille on July 3-4 2008.

The Conference for the Launch of « in med invest » project by ANIMA Investment Network took place in Marseille on July 1st and 2nd 2008 in the Head Office of the Regional Council PACA. The Conference was the opportunity for the official presentation and signature of the co-operation protocol. This conference helped to clarify the project , its operation, the activities to be undertaken and to identify the priority target sectors to be dealt with in the debates and workshops. Attended this conference ANIMA Investment Network, EUROCHAMBRES, ASCAME, BUSINESSMED and the other special partners GTZ, ONUDI and EPA Euro-mediterranean. 

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises participated to the Workshop on the Integration of Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) in the industrial permit system of Mediterranean countries which took place in Sevilla (Spain) on June 25 and26, 2008.
Mrs Esperanza Caro, Secretary General for Climate Change and Environment Quality – Ministry of Environment, Regional Government of Andalucía, opened the Workshop by welcoming the participants, and presenting the experience of Andalucía in pollution prevention and control.

The Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESESSMED) represented by Mrs Monia SKhiri (Secretary General), participated in the meeting within TRESMED3 which took place in Algiers on June 24th 2008. This meeting was co-organised by the Algerian National Economic and Social Council and the Spanish National Economic and Social Council, with the financial support of the European Union under the symbol « from Algiers 2008 to Madrid 2010 ».

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises participated to the meeting of the Steering Committee of the Mediterranean Commission Sustainable Development – UNEP / MAP which took place in Athens on June 19-20 2008.

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises participated to the second meeting of the Steering Group Horizon 2020 which took place in Tunis, Abou Nawas Hotel, on June 16th 2008.
The meeting was opened by His Excellency Mr Nadhir Hamada, Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development of Tunisia.

Mrs Monia SKhiri, Secretary General of the Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESESSMED) represented President Jacques Jean Sarraf at the annual meeting Enterprises and professional networks « Mediterranean Meeting » which took place in Barcelona on June 12th and 13th 2008. The meeting was axed around four major topics : the financial field, energy, agriculture and water which were identified as key elements for Mediterranean North-South and South-South relations.

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises – represented by its President, Mr Jacques Jean SARRAF and its Secretary General, Mrs Monia SKHIRI participated to the High Level « Euro-Mediterranean on Investment», organised by the Foundation Europe + whose general topic was « Projects creating momentum to attract investment, talent and innovation » ; this was within the framework of the yearly World Investment Conference which took place on Thursday and Friday, June 5th and 6th 2008 in la Baule, France.

BUSINESSMED – Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises participated to the Conference on the European Charter for Small Enterprises which took place in Bled – Slovenia on June 3-4 2008.

BUSINESSMED held its second Management Committee on May 3rd 2008 in Beirut under the presidency of Mr Jacques Jean Sarraf as well as the Presidents of founder member organisations, Mr Habib Yousfi – CGEA (Algeria), Mr Hatem Halawani – JCI (Jordan) and Mr Abdul Rahmane Attar – CCI (Syria). Attended the meeting of the Management Committee the Secretaries and Directors General and Directors of the Business Country Desks of Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria as well as from associated member federations such as UBCCE – Turkey and ASEM – Italy.  

A consortium of European business organisations launched today “Invest in Med”, a 12 million EUR project – co-financed by the European Commission – aiming at encouraging European investments in the Mediterranean region and developing solid links between Med companies and their European counterparts.
The project – which will run for 36 months involving the 27 EU Member States and the 9 Southern ENPI partner countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and  Tunisia) – has the ambition to foster the volume and quality of Euro-Mediterranean trade and foreign direct investment, as well as to contribute to a sustainable economic development of the area.