In
response to the Covid-19 crisis, the EBRD Legal Transition Programme and the EBRD Advice for Small Businesses
team in Kyrgyzstan,
in partnership with the European Union and the Small Business Impact Fund
(Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, TaiwanBusiness
- EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund and the
USA), organised a series of legal and practical guidance webinars for SMEs
in Kyrgyzstan to build business resilience.
These
initiatives were conducted in parallel with the development of a general
website in English and Russian with legal and business advice for SMEs:
businessguide.ebrd.com
Links
to recordings of webinars on a number of topics relevant for SMEs provided by Centil
Law Firm
are available below:
Contract enforcement and state
support:
Doing business during the pandemic
and the effect of Covid-19 on contract performance. State support: who is
eligible and how to get it – 30 September 2020.
Contracts: Contractual relations during Covid-19
and political unrest
– 14 October 2020
Labour contracts and electronic
commerce:
Labour relations and e-commerce
considerations during Covid-19 – 21 October 2020
Our partners, the International Business Council and Business Development and Investments Council under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, provided valuable support for the project.
A summary of questions and answers at the webinars can be found in Russian here.