OECD-Russia Expert Meeting on Russia’s Investment Policy: Recent Trends and Spotlight on Energy

Moscow, Russia, 9 April 2008

The Moscow expert meeting provided an opportunity for OECD and Russian officials and experts to exchange experiences on investment policy issues based on the draft OECD 2008 Investment Policy Review of the Russian Federation to be published in summer 2008.

The Investment Policy Reviews are an integral part of the Investment Committee’s work. They seek to facilitate dialogue, share experience and build expertise between OECD members and partner countries.

The 2008 Investment Policy Review of the Russian Federation provides an update on recent developments in Russia’s international investment flows and policies and reports on corporate responsibility practices and initiatives of listed Russian companies. It also examines Russia’s energy investment policy based on the OECD Policy Framework on Investment.

The expert meeting was organised in co-operation with the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Documentation

• Programme
• List of Participants
• Summary of Discussions
• Overview of the 2008 Investment Policy Review of the Russian Federation

Presentations

• Foreign Direct Investment: Russia and the EU, Lúcio Vinhas de Souza (European Commission)

• Participation of Foreign Investors in Russia's Banking Sector, Elena Muzika (Central Bank of Russia)

• Russia's energy investment policy in light of the OECD Policy Framework for Investment, Blanka Kalinova (OECD)
• Oil Industry Investments, Arild Moe (Fridtjof Nansen Institute)
• Investment Policy of the Energy Sector – Aspect of Russia, Stanislav Dorzhinkevich (Ministry of Industry and Energy, Russia)
• Investment policy approaches to the energy sector: Russia’s experience in light of the OECD Policy Framework for Investment and other countries’ experiences, Simon-Erik Ollus (Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition-BOFIT)

Further reading

• OECD-Russia co-operation in the field of international investment
• OECD Investment Policy Reviews: Russian Federation: Enhancing policy transparency, OECD, 2006
• Investment Policy Review of the Russian Federation, OECD, 2004
• The Investment Environment in the Russian Federation: Laws, Policies and Institutions, OECD, 2001
• Policy Framework for Investment 
• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Meeting organisers

Ms. Blanka Kalinova, OECD Investment Division
Tel: 00 33-1 45 24 89 23; blanka.kalinova@oecd.org 

Ms. Hanna Peltonen, OECD Investment Division
Tel: 00 33-1 45 24 90 93;  hanna.peltonen@oecd.org

Fax: 00 33-1 44 30 61 35