Why should you attend this workshop?
Numerous companies use intermediaries, agents, consultants, and other third parties to effectively expand and sustain their operations in the international market. If not carefully selected or managed appropriately, third parties can create significant risks and damage to the company.
That’s why today, almost all multinational companies operating in the global market, as part of their Compliance programs, conduct in-depth analyses of third parties and empower local businesses to do the same to mitigate business risks, especially corruption risks, throughout the entire supply chain.
The goal of the workshop:
The aim of the workshop is to describe in detail the procedures of a thorough analysis of third parties designed to ensure that companies engage or operate only with reputable and qualified third parties that will act with integrity and in accordance with all applicable laws and company policies.
After engaging in a relationship with third parties, the company should have established effective controls to mitigate the risks of non-compliance. The education provides a detailed insight into this part of the process.
The workshop content:
- Legal basis responsibilities for business partners
- Categories of business partners requiring due diligence
- Warning signs (The third party demands a partner
- Unusual financial benefits or other business conditions
- Third party between the partner and end customer, other warning signs),
- Conducting due diligence, verification, and approval of business partners, the Importance of monitoring the business relationship
- Measures to mitigate risks (including standard contractual provisions)
- German supply chain due diligence, and the development of European legislation
For whom is the workshop intended?
The compliance Managers, Compliance Officers, heads and employees in the Procurement and Sales department, and all those responsible for conducting in-depth analysis of third parties.
Trainer:
Irena Kajganić graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 2002. She began her professional journey at the company Končar Elektroindustrija d.d., where she worked as a corporate lawyer. Since 2008, she has been employed within the Siemens corporation, and in 2016, she became the Compliance Officer for the Adriatic region. Her areas of expertise include business compliance (anti-corruption, antitrust, export control), risk management, and personal data protection.
She has attended numerous ICC seminars on international sales of goods and arbitration, specialized modules from BIMCO (The Baltic and International Maritime Council) in maritime law, and various internal training programs within the corporation. Since 2019, she has been a certified Compliance professional.
Irena is a participant in the Postgraduate Specialist Study Program in Commercial Law and Company Law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. She is also a member of the ICC Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption.
As a speaker or panellist, she has participated in several conferences focusing on integrity and Compliance.