1. The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) was set up on 1st July 2011 (Law 3986 – s.Details) with a share capital of 30m and it was officially established legally on 28th July 2011.
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2. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, the CEO and members of the Board were appointed by the decision of the General Assembly meeting on 29th of July 2011.
Before this the Chairman and the CEO were vetted by the Commitee of the 49 article of the Greeks Parliament’s Regulation, with 13 positive votes out of 15 members.
On 29th July 2011 the articles of association were approved and published at Government’s Gazette.
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3. The Fund begun its operations on 1st of August 2011, temporarily based in offices provided by the Hellenic Tourist Developments S.A.. By the end of October 2011 the Fund will move to new offices.
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4. As soon as the HRADF begun operating, it started co-managing privatization programme which were until then under the sole responsibility of the Special Secretariat of Restructering and Privatisation.
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5. So far 13 project managers, 7 lawyers and 6 support stuff are working in the Fund. Eight of these were transferred from the Special Secretariat for Restructering and Privatisation, along with the Privatisation archives.
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6. On August 30th 2011 the board of directors of HRADF appointed the 7 members Council of Experts who will be advising the Board of Directors on privatisations.
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7. On 7th of September 2011 the Board of Directors approved the procurement regulation of the Fund, as well as the internal organization and certain operating guidelines and procedures.
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8. On 29th of September 2011 the BoD following the opinion of the Council of Experts approved the Asset Development Plan as stipulated in the founding law of HRADF.
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9. On 16th of September 2011 the first lot of assets was transferred to the HRADF:
10. The HRADF following its own tendering process appointed in September 2011
an advisor for the website development
a strategic advisor
an advisor for the development of the programme system
a communication advisor
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11. The CEO Dr. Costas S.Mitropoulos, the Executive Director Andreas Taprantzis, and the coordinator of the privatization programme P. Protopsaltis participated in the following events:
a. BDI conference in Berlin and official visit by the Prime Minister
b. Conference of the Hellenic-French chamber of Commerce in Paris and visit of Minister Michalis Chrisohoidis.
c. Austrian Industries confederation conference in Vienna and visit of Mr. Chrysohoidis.
d. Conference of the Greek-German chamber of commerce in Greece
e. Greek-Russian Conference on investing opportunities in Rhodes
f. Prodexpo Conference for real estate development.
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12. The CEO of the Fund presented to the college of EU 27 ambassadors the privatisation programme on 27th September 2011.
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13. The HRADF prepared a briefing note on the Hellenic Republic Privatization Programme for the Greek ambassadors, which was distributed by the Diplomatic Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
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14. During the first quarter HRADF’s expenses amounted to 135,413. At the same period the HRADF’s revenues were at 61.495.
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15. Between the end of August and September, executives of HRADF met 37 interested parties for privatisations.
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