Seminar

The Office des Changes participated, on Friday January 17, 2020, at the conference organized by the representatives of the General Confederation of Moroccan Companies in Marrakech-Safi (CGEM-MS), under the theme: The new features of the 2020 foreign exchange regulations: challenges and implications. This meeting was an opportunity to shed light on the provisions newly introduced by the General Instruction for Foreign Exchange Operations and to also cover the regulatory system provided for the Voluntary Regularization Operation.

The Director of the Office des Changes, Mr. Hassan BOULAKNADAL met, on January 16th, 2020, the French Chamber of Commerce. The Director of the Office des Changes presented, during this meeting, the main measures of the General Instruction for Foreign Exchange Operations 2020 as well as regulatory requirements and the implementation aspects of the provisions in matter of the Voluntary Regularization Operation.

The Office des Changes organizes, on January 08 and 09, 2020, an exchange visit for the benefit of seven executive members of the Cameroonian delegation.

This meeting consists on carrying out asymmetry and Benchmarking studies, in terms of collection, accounting and promotion of exportations.

The Secretary-General of the Office des Changes, Mr. Driss BENCHIKH took part in "la Matinale", a conference-debate organized on December 13, 2019, by " Groupe le Matin". The participants invited to this meeting, under the theme "Fiscal amnesty: towards the end of impunity?", Discussed the various amnesties provided by the 2020 Finance Law.

A meeting has been held, on Thursday, November 21, 2019 in Rabat, for the benefit of representatives of the CGEM general confederation of Moroccan companies and its Spanish counterpart. This working session has been devoted to the treatment of the system governing foreign exchange transactions, including measures on foreign investment operations in Morocco.

Representatives of the notaries society were invited, on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at the meeting held by officials of the Office des Changes in Marrakech. On this occasion, the representatives of the notaries society, has benefited from a training and awareness session on the new provisions of the exchange regulations.

As part of the implementation of the provisions of Article 8 of the Draft Finance Act No. 70-19 for fiscal year 2020, the Office des Changes held on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 its first meeting with the Professional Group of Banks of Morocco (GPBM).

Thus, the officials of the Office des Changes presented to the GPBM the implementation mechanism of the spontaneous regularization operation 2020 (persons concerned, reporting procedures, benefits and facilities granted to the declarants, role of the banking system ...).

Participation of the Director of the Office des Changes, Mr. Hassan BOULAKNADAL, at the official launching ceremony of the STARTUP HUB platform, which was chaired by the Minister of Industry, Investment, Trade and Digital Economy , Mr. Moulay Hafid Elalamy. The platform aims to ease the procedures for the payment of services imported by young innovative companies in new technologies and listed by the Digital Development Agency (DDA).

Represented by Mr. Hassan BOULAKNADEL Director, Mr. Mostafa HAFSI Head of the authorization and Users Relations Department and Mr. Majid ZOUHEIR Head of Supervision Department, the « Office des Changes » participated in the national conference on " the impact of national risk assessment on the national anti-money laundering and terrorist financing system", organized by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on the tenth anniversary of its founding.

Participation of the Office des Changes at the fifth meeting of the Technical Committee of the Arab Statistics Initiative (Arabstat) held in Abu Dhabi from 6 to 9 November 2018