Tuesday, 1st September 2009

It has been announced by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI) that an Internet website (elections.adcci.ae) was earmarked for the ADCCI Board Members’ 2010 Elections due to be held in the first half of the upcoming month of December, and that an elections affairs’ office was appointed and based on the second floor of the Chamber Building.

The elections’ website contains integrated information on how one can stand for board membership, general prerequisite for voting at the ADCCI board members’ elections, in addition to information on the method of voting and the way members can cast their votes besides procedures applicable in conformity with the law to the voting process, HE Mohammed Rashed Al Hameli, ADCCI Director-General said, mentioning that allocating such a website to the ADCCI board members’ elections came with the aim of making it easy for all chamber-members desirous of nomination and voting at the elections, which are due to take place next December.

“The website includes all forms associated with nomination, nomination by proxy, voting cards, news items and information disseminated by the chamber to its entire members as regards the most important developments and procedures peculiar to running for and voting at the ADCCI board 4-year-long membership-related elections,” Mr. Al Hameli noted, explaining that the chamber has set up a second floor-based elections affairs’ office, which renders all services and answers all questions and queries appertaining to the process of nomination and election for the chamber’s board of directors. The centre is run by a well-qualified team of the chamber’s staff and chamber-members willing to go as nominees for the membership of the chamber’s board can have recourse to the centre operating all around the clock for requesting any piece of information on the electoral process as questions pertinent to the elections are answered by employees stationed there. It also provides such services as legal advice plus various consultancies on the elections.

On how one can apply for standing for the ADCCI board membership, Mr. Al Hameli said chamber-member desirous of being nominees can refer to the chamber-based Office for Elections’ Affairs so as for them to place a nomination application, signing it after making sure that the concerned member has engaged in a business or industrial activity for a period of at least 3 years and that he is in possession of a valid membership on the date nomination applications were accepted. Then, necessary documents are to be attached; namely, a passport copy, three personal photographs and a certificate of good conduct. The applications would afterwards be submitted officially to the Office for Elections’ Affairs based on the second floor of the chamber compound in the city of Abu Dhabi. It is noteworthy as well that nomination applications are available at all branches of the chamber in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi Municipality, the Western Region, as well as at the branch of the Industrial City.

The duration for accepting nomination applications would come to an end on Tuesday, 15th September 2009, as no further applications could be honoured posterior to that date, Mr. Al Hameli clarified.