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    For more details of judging criteria click on Website Awards page

AND THE RUNNER-UP !

2007 WINNERS Category TWO !
BEST ZONE AUTHORITY OR OTHER WEBSITE

AND THE RUNNER-UP !

Event:	SEVENTH ANNUAL WORLD FREE ZONE CONVENTION
Date:	Week of the 4TH November 2007
Venue:	Renaissance KUALA LUMPUR Hotel, MALAYSIA With the support of the Port Klang Authority

     WFZC teamed up with GDP Global's Zone Advisory Panel to offer the first 30 registrant organisations a special benchmarking report as part of their delegate fee. This includes a 10 point assessment of zone development by experts including financiers, direct investors and consultancies. More information at

GDP Global is the leading international consulting firm for the continuous benchmarking of economic zones; also national, city and regional economic promotion agencies. It organizes the annual monitoring & evaluation of more than 200 government agencies and more than 100 of the world's leading special economic and free zones.

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     Free Zones and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

A recent issue of the Global Trade and Customs Journal contained an article by Raul A. Torres, a Legal Affairs Officer in the Development Division of the WTO Secretariat. This article was written to follow up his presentation to the 1st Joint International Briefing & Forum arranged by WFZC and the World Customs Organisation in Geneva in July 2006.

In view of the importance and topicality of the subject we are pleased to make this article freely available - Download the .pdf file (106 ko).

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    At WFZC we monitor Special Economic Zones around the world and more than 120 countries now have some form of zone development programme - India, China & South East Asia, Middle East, North and South America, Russia and Central Asia, Europe and Africa.

    Speakers and Delegates who have participated in our meetings represent a wide cross-section of organisations from almost all these countries, and from others considering their establishment - Zones and the Authorities who regulate them, Government Ministries, Investment Promotion Agencies, Corporates and Location Specialists as well as Investors, Banks and other Financial Advisers.

    INVESTORS' DAY - inaugurated in 2005, this day enables Zones, IPAs and other organisations to present their projects, region or country in 30 minutes slots. WFZC invites guests with a professional interest in corporate location, site selection and foreign direct investment.

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     Since 2001 WFZC has built up an unparalleled network of partners, sponsors and speakers who have contributed to events held in London, Brussels, Skopje, Cairo, Cape Town, Cannes, Izmir, Geneva and Paris

     See our History pages for reviews of the events and our Library pages for information on Free Zones

Highlights since 2001

• WTO Director General and EU Negotiator on WFZC platforms in 2001-2003
• IPAWorld supports Free Zone Website Awards (2002 - present)
• Foreign Direct Investment magazine becomes media partner (2002)
• Partnership with CEI / EBRD at Skopje governmental conference
• Report "Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for the world's Free Zones" presented at the Brussels Convention
• Daily News from Oxford Intelligence launched on WFZC website
• Visit to European Parliament and other European Union institutions (2003)
• Special analysis of International Law on Incentives, Benefits, Competition and State Aids in London 2003
• Courses and Training Division established
• WFZC becomes World Bank FDI Xchange partner (2004)
• Post Conference visit to Free Zones in Cairo, Egypt
• WFZC supports WAIPA (World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies) meetings in Geneva (2004 to present)
• WFZC infrastructure seminar at MIPIM international property exhibition in Cannes (2005/06)
• First WFZC meeting held in a Free Zone (Aegean Free Zone, Izmir) with Ministerial Round Table, resulting in Conference Declaration
• Financial Times publishes full page article on Free Zones (2005)
• World Customs Organisation & WFZC sign joint Declaration at Geneva Briefing & Forum (2006)
• AFZA (Africa Free Zones Association) Memorandum of agreement signed at Sixth Convention in Paris (2006).
• 2nd International Briefing & Forum with WCO held in Brussels in June 2007 with a contribution from the China Free Trade Zone and Export Procesing Zone Association

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Countries which have participated in WFZC events

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