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The seminar of the IDW Academy entitled “The Risk-Oriented Examination of the Internal Control System and the IT Systems in SMEs: Module I took place on the 13th and 14th of May 2019 in Düsseldorf. Participants from VON ZANTHIER&SCHULZ were Lutz Kendzierski, Krzysztof Rzeznik and Rüdiger Schulz. The seminar was divided into two parts: Part 1: Structures, Processes and IT in Enterprises - "IT system audit in the context of the statutory audit" Part 2: Characteristics of the IT system and process testing - examples of tasks and case studies for system and process testing Now it is time to put the newly acquired knowledge into practice. Good luck!

The DIRO spring conference took place from the 9th to 10th May in Aachen. Two attorneys- at- law from VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and Justyna Janik attended the event. The Annual General Meeting of DIRO AG shareholders, in which was given an overview of the current and planned activities, was held by the Executive Board. Three interesting workshops on various topics related to law firm management were available to the participants. The new law firms admitted to the DIRO were also presented. The program also included a visit to the Aachen Cathedral, located in the middle of the Old Town, built at the end of the 8th century during the reign of Charles the Great, which has been a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 1978. As always, the event was a great opportunity to exchange experience and professional knowledge.

This year the project Schlesische27 invites Mr. Schulz to the finissage. Teenagers from all over the world have set out to dig stories and traces of everyday life on the pile of rubble.

As part of the cooperation between member firms of the Polish-German Economic Circle in Poznań (DWK) attorney-at-law Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal from VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ met with children from the "MALTA" Bilingual Kindergarten (www.froebel-polska.pl) as part of the project "We are getting to know the professions". The children learned about the daily work of a lawyer, the professions of judge, prosecutor, legal adviser, attorney and notary. The big attractions were coloring books related to the profession of a lawyer and of course trying on a toga - that is, "a wizard's outfit”. The meeting was very interesting for both sides. Thank you very much for the invitation!

The European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder organizes on Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert’s initiative in association with the Brandenburg Ministry of Finance in Potsdam a series of lectures on the fundamentals of Polish tax law for the German Financial Administration. The event takes place from 15.04. until 17.04.2019. in the training center in Königs Wusterhausen. The tax adviser Lukasz Dachowski from VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ in Poznań will present the topic "Taxation procedure VAT with an external audit" and Prof. Dr. Wojciech Stiller from VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ in Berlin will talk about the VAT tax on the 17th of April 2019.

The next meeting of DWK Members will take place on Tuesday, the 11th of April 2019 at 17.30 at H.CEGIELSKI - POZNAŃ S.A. on the 28th of June 1956 street No. 223/229 in Poznań. First there will be a lecture taken by a representative of the factory and later all participants will have the opportunity to know the latest solutions from the following sectors: energy, rail transport, gas and petrochemistry, special production and broadly understood environmental engineering. The biggest attraction will be the possibility to visit three production halls: metal processing, production of cranes, blowers and processing of elements over 100 tons. This event will be as usual a good opportunity to update the news and exchange views during the discussion.

The GO Seminar will be held at the Seehotel Zeuthen on the 15th  and the 16th of May 2019, dealing with wind energy abroad, this time in north-eastern European countries. The event will be attended by speakers who will present the latest information on the potential, legal and tax framework conditions in the field of wind energy and share practical experience.

The law firm VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ will take an active part in this event. The attorney at law Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal will give a lecture on "Current framework conditions in Poland - introduction and review". Please find further information about the program on the website.

The Energy Table of the German-Polish Wind Energy Club (GPWEC) was held in Poznań on the 6th of March 2019 in Poznań. The moderator and co-organizer of the meeting was the attorney at law Henning von Zanthier. There were two lectures, one on the subject of "Auction in Poland" and the second on "Experiences after winning the auction". This event was a good opportunity to update the news and exchange views during the discussion.

On the 26th of February 2019 a meeting of members of the DWK took place at the Ławica airport in Poznań. The meeting was organized together with the Capital Club of Wielkopolska and attracted a large group of members of both organizations. The law office VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ as a member of DWK took part in the event as well and it was represented by the attorneys at law Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and Henning von Zanthier. The organizers showed numerous inaccessible attractions for the average visitor to the airport and the secrets of the airport's work. There was also a conference on threats from IT and cyber security.