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	EBRD
		The EBRD was set up in 1991 to assist the former communist countries of Eastern Europe in their transition to market economies.
		The EBRD and the European Commission launched the EU/EBRD SME Finance Facility in 1999, to encourage growth and development of SME's by facilitating their access to loans, leasing and equity finance from local financial intermediaries in the candidate countries for EU accession.
		General enquiries about the EBRD may be sent to generalenquiries@ebrd.com or +44 20 7338 6372 and project enquiries (existing projects) may be sent to projectenquiries@ebrd.com or +44 20 7338 6282.
	www.mac.doc.gov /ceebic/finangov/EBRDsmallMedFIN.htm (6797 words)

	951462 ev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		EBRD should reconsider its reimbursement policy and practices and, with donors, examine the constitution and modalities of revolving TC funds derived from reimbursement.
		EBRD should justify its request for TC funds, including the level of subsidy they imply, by demonstrating the intrinsic value of TC in a project in terms of transition impact.
		EBRD should minimise the use of the confidentiality argument in order to allow the EC fully to appraise their project participation, and should consider asking clients to relax confidentiality.
	europa.eu.int /comm/europeaid/evaluation/evinfo/tacis/951462_ev.html (1022 words)

	EBRD's Environmental Promise: A Bounced Check? - Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Recently, the EBRD adopted a new energy operations policy that is much more detailed than previous versions on environmental issues and the actions the Bank will take to address those issues.
		The EBRD also must develop criteria to ensure that each project it funds is consistent with the sustainable development policy and expand and stringently implement its procedures for environmental assessments.
		Finally, the EBRD needs to develop mechanisms to ensure that its policies and procedures are fully complied with and for holding the Bank accountable when compliance is not achieved.
	www.ciel.org /Publications/issue3b.html (2068 words)

	The EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme
		EBRD guarantees may be requested by either the issuing bank or the confirming bank.
		An EBRD guarantee may be requested either by the issuing bank or by the confirming bank.
		The EBRD's decision to issue its guarantee will be based on its commercial judgement, with due consideration of risks and of the nature of the underlying transaction.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0304EBRDTFP.htm (2103 words)

	About the EBRD homepage
		The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was established in 1991 when communism was crumbling in central and eastern Europe and ex-soviet countries needed support to nurture a new private sector in a democratic environment.
		The EBRD is the largest single investor in the region and mobilises significant foreign direct investment beyond its own financing.
		The mandate of the EBRD stipulates that it must only work in countries that are committed to democratic principles.
	www.ebrd.com /about/index.htm (244 words)

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		The EBRD is ensuring a steady flow of oil and gas to Western Europe and Japan, while making oil and gas less accessible to many people in Eastern Europe, destroying indigenous cultures, and laying waste to some the last pristine areas on the planet.
		The EBRD is also considering financing a planned pipeline for Azeri, Kazakh and Russian crude from the Caspian Sea, via the Black Sea port of Bourgas, Bulgaria, to the Mediterranean port of Vlore, Albania.14 Western transnationals are heavy investors in the booming Caspian Sea oil fields.
		Notes: The EBRD loan is to be used to purchase a vacuum distillation unit and a delayed coker unit at the Achinsk refinery.
	www.seen.org /pages/ifis/ebrd/ebrd-eng.txt (9261 words)

	Introduction to EBRD
		The powers of the EBRD are vested in a Board of Governors, to which each member appoints a Governor and an Alternate.
		The terms of the EBRD funding are designed to enable it to cooperate both with other international financial institutions and with public and private financial institutions through co-financing arrangements.
		The EBRD operations are carried out through its Banking Department, which is composed of teams combining the Bank's private sector and public sector specialists.
	www.tro-taiwan.roc.org.uk /de/intro.htm (742 words)

	Microfinance - The MIX Market - Profile for EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Group for Small ...
		The EBRD is committed to the promotion of SMEs and support of this sector is a cornerstone of the work of the Financial Institutions group.
		EBRD can invest in or alongside the increasing number of funds which have been created to invest in financial institutions with a strategic commitment to the MSEs in the Bank's countries of operation.
		Such measures are important to ensure that EBRD's partners have the necessary capacity to enter the MSE finance market and to continue providing loans long after Bank assistance and investment have ceased.
	www.mixmarket.org /en/supply/supply.show.profile.asp?ett=1551 (1087 words)

	Bank Information Center USA : EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The IRM will have two components: a compliance review function focusing on issues of non-compliance by the Bank with specified EBRD policies; and a problem-solving function to be used where complaints or grievances can benefit from problem-solving techniques which try to resolve the underlying issues raised in the complaints.
		As the EBRD has not had an accountability mechanism in the past and the new IRM is not yet functioning, there is no track record.
		Indicate what steps the complainants would like the EBRD to take to address the adverse effects that have been or may be caused.
	bicusa.org /bicusa/issues/ebrd_independent_recourse_mechanism/index.php (1141 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Bank to sue Abramovich over '£9m debt'
		EBRD lost a lawsuit in the Russian courts in 2000 after Runicom SA produced documents which it claimed showed that the loan had already been repaid to another concern - so it did not owe EBRD a penny.
		Senior banker Elizabeth Wallace, is quoted in EBRD's dossier as saying: "In the course of the investigation carried out by the EBRD, we discovered that the documents produced by Runicom contained numerous inconsistencies which pointed to the fact that some of documents had been forged at a later date.
		The EBRD took the case to the appeal court in Russia and in January 2002 it won a judgment in its favour for £9m.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4177471.stm (1130 words)

	EurasiaNet Human Rights - Tashkent EBRD Meeting a PR Nightmare for Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov
		Far from providing a boost to Uzbekistan’s economic prospects, the just-completed annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) proved to be a public relations nightmare for President Islam Karimov’s administration.
		EBRD President Jean Lemierre, speaking at a May 5 news conference, said the annual meeting succeeded in placing "civil society at the core of the [development] process.
		An Uzbek radio report of Lemierre’s news conference, for example, carried comments in which the EBRD chief praised the Tashkent summit for being "well-organized," while omitting references to the need for the Uzbek government to implement reforms or to meet international benchmarks to ensure continued cooperation.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/rights/articles/eav050603.shtml (1126 words)

	EBRD READER - PRINTER VERSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Consequently, the EBRD and the World Bank have been more heavily investing in the capitalisation of Russia, big oil and gas projects, like the exploitation of the massive fields in the Arctic, Siberia and around Sakhalin Island have moved to the front of their fossil fuel financing schemes.
		However, EBRD and the World Bank pushes for the modernisation of oil and gas fields is not, as a rule, directed at the most egregious examples of decaying infrastructure with the petroleum industry.
		However, the EBRD was prepared to approve a loan for $116 million to finance the first phase of new oil and gas development in the region.
	www.aseed.net /publications/ebrdprint.htm (12559 words)

	EBRD – CEE Bankwatch Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was established in 1991 in London with the aim of assisting the countries of central and eastern Europe and Central Asia in their transition to market-oriented economies.
		The EBRD is the only development bank currently opting to finance the construction of nuclear power plants, such as Mochovce in Slovakia and Khmelnitsky 2 and Rivne 4 (K2/R4) in Ukraine.
		The EBRD is currently considering financing the second phase of Shell's controversial Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project in the Russian far east.
	www.bankwatch.org /project.shtml?w=147579 (601 words)

	Bronstone: EBRD Institution Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Many of the people associated with the EBRD who have been interviewed conclude that there are differences between the continental member states of the European Community on one hand, and the United States and United Kingdom on the other, particularly with respect to economic philosophies and, thus, the direction of the EBRD.
		The lack of divergence prior to the establishment of the EBRD may imply that the creation of an institution may not be the optimum decision reached by a group of actors, regardless of the reasons that institution is desired.
		In this respect, the EBRD as desirable for its own sake, much to the chagrin of Keohane and Nye, who have come to conclusion that this is often not the case.
	www.kent.ac.uk /politics/research/kentpapers/bronstone.html (6764 words)

	EBRD opening other 3 regional offices in Russia :: Russia-InfoCentre
		The Bank intends to open 3 new regional offices said the president of EBRD at the Foreign Investment Advisory Committee.
		According to the president of EBRD, the Bank shares the opinion of positive state of Russian economics and will increase investments in private sector.
		EBRD has three priorities: diversification of Russian economics and utilization of its potential, infrastructure construction and handling transportation problem.
	www.russia-ic.com /news/show/2828 (231 words)

	Home -- U.S. Commercial Service European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
		The U.S. is the largest single shareholder in the EBRD, the world’s newest multilateral development bank.
		The Bank’s program promotes the growth of market-based economies in 28 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
		The Advocacy Center's Liaison Office to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (AC-EBRD) is an integral part of U.S. representation at the EBRD and works closely with the Executive Director's office to increase the effectiveness of U.S. participation in Bank programs.
	www.buyusa.gov /ebrd (203 words)

	EBRD to Launch Multi-Million Lawsuit Against Russia’s Abramovich - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		According to the information provided by the British broadcaster, the EBRD is set to accuse Ambramovich and his business partners of misappropriation of a loan worth £9 million ($16.8 million).
		When EBRD made its demands of Runicom SA, the Swiss company declared that it had already paid out the loan to SBS Agro.
		In 2000 a Russian court heard out the lawsuit filed by the EBRD against Runicom, but the Swiss company won the case by providing documents which testified to the fact that the loan was repaid.
	www.mosnews.com /money/2005/01/17/ebrdabramovich.shtml (831 words)

	The EBRD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The EBRD was established in 1991 following the collapse of communism, to aid the transition from centrally planned to market economies in central and Eastern Europe and the CIS.
		Through the programme, the EBRD provides guarantees to international confirming banks, taking the political and commercial payment risk of international trade transactions undertaken by banks in the countries of operations (the issuing banks).
		The EBRD's decision to issue its guarantee is based on its commercial judgement, with due consideration of risks and of the nature of the underlying transaction.
	www.sec-chamber.ch /news/ebrd.htm (3017 words)

	IFTI Watch - Transparency Issues at the EBRD
		The EBRD also decided to begin a one-year pilot project during which time the Bank will translate country strategies in to "the relevant official national language." If there is more than one, and one of them is an official working language of the Bank, the translation will be only in such working language.
		Under current EBRD policy, not changed in the new policy, "client confidentiality" may be used as a reason for delaying disclosure of a Project Summary Document.
		The EBRD also established a mechanism to receive complaints from groups who are, or are likely to be, adversely affected by a bank-financed project.
	www.freedominfo.org /ifti/ebrd.htm (5583 words)

	EBRD Finance for SMEs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was set up in 1991 to support the transition from centrally planned to market economies in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
		The EBRD is owned by 60 shareholders: 58 countries, the European Investment Bank and the European Community, and operates with €20 billion in capital.
		A key objective of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to support the development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
	bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/finance/000731Financing_for_SMEsIntro.htm (218 words)

	Uzbekistan: EBRD Should Suspend Public Loans (Human Rights Watch, 23-3-2004)
		In the coming days, the EBRD’s board of directors is scheduled to decide on the level of the bank’s engagement with Uzbekistan.
		In its briefing paper and accompanying letter to the EBRD, Human Rights Watch called on the bank to continue to use the benchmarks as policy tools for reform, and to articulate the specific reform steps the Uzbek government needs to take in order to be considered in compliance with these goals.
		The campaign called on the EBRD to use the meeting to press for concrete progress in human rights in advance of it, and it continues to urge the bank to ensure that its overall engagement with Uzbekistan serves to promote democracy and human rights.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/03/23/uzbeki8186.htm (874 words)

	EBRD - investing in countries from central Europe to central Asia
		The EBRD has started work on the revision of its strategy for Montenegro and invites comments from the public based on the draft strategy.
		The bank, a long-term partner of the EBRD, recently benefited from an EBRD loan of US $15 million to expand investments in the small business sector.
		EBRD will continue to support the transition process by focusing its activities on the entreprise sector, infrastructure projects and SME finance.
	www.ebrd.com (234 words)

	European Bank for Reconstruction and Development \| Bank Information Center: Monitoring the projects and policies of the ...
		The EBRD is the largest single investor in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
		It was established in 1991 with the aim of assisting with the transition to market-oriented economies and democracy.
		The EBRD's Energy, Environmental, and Public Information Policies and the operation of its Independent Recourse Mechanism have also recently been the targets of some CSO advocacy efforts (CEE Bankwatch website).
	www.bicusa.org /en/Institution.3.aspx (432 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Campaigns: Climate: Press for change: Urge EBRD to rethink energy policy
		Now the EBRD is considering funding Shell's Sakhalin 2 project, which could produce half a million barrels of oil a day.
		International Financial Institutions such as the EBRD play a key role in financing the world’s energy infrastructure, but the fossil fuel projects which EBRD supports, such as BP’s BTC oil pipeline, and Shell’s Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project, add to climate change, and often damage local communities and environments.
		I urge you to ensure that the revised EBRD energy policy meets the challenge of climate change and the needs of local communities through a rapid phaseout of lending to projects for fossil fuel extraction, and dramatically increased investment in clean, sustainable, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
	www.foe.co.uk /campaigns/climate/press_for_change/ebrd_energy_policy (380 words)

	EBRD Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the course of its work the EBRD identifies, evaluates and acquires a large volume of business information relevant to the region.
		First published in 1996, the EBRD Directory has become a leading reference work of immediate practical value to researchers, economic and business analysts and potential investors in the important transition economies of central and eastern Europe and the CIS.
		The 2005 EBRD Directory builds on the coverage of previous highly acclaimed volumes to offer analysts throughout the world an unrivalled guide to information resources on the region.
	www.dataresources.co.uk /etm2a.htm (284 words)

	WISE NC: LARGEST EVER PROTEST AGAINST EBRD: NO MONEY FOR K2/R4
		The EBRD has been considering the loan for years already but so far seems hesitant to come up with the loan, as the project fails to meet many of the criteria the bank has formulated for such projects.
		EBRD representative were asked to come, but they didn't, so people went up to leave a petition in the office.
		As there is no EBRD office in Rivne, the action was used to inform the public wich responded positively: more than 3,500 signatures against K2/R4 project were collected to back up a petition.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/504/4960.html (2428 words)

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