Each of the companies associated to the Program designates a representative and a deputy to receive the reports and participate in the GEA™ meetings. Due to the nature and characteristics of the program, the representative is usually the General Manager or the highest authority of each company or institution. The deputy representative usually is one of the first-line directives or managers.

      The representative - or in his absence, the deputy representative- participates once a month in a work meeting. After a brief exposition presented by COPADES™ about the main aspects of the monthly document (see previous page), some conclusion are analyzed and there is an exchange of opinions and comments with the participants and among them, both about the exposition and important topics for the entrepreneurial activity. These discussions enrich the meetings and are of great benefit for the group of members of GEA™.

     In the case of the GEA-R, in alternate sessions we invite high-ranked public officials or other personalities that give brief speeches about transcendent aspects about the economic, financial or political situation of Guatemala. Both officials and Group members exchange opinions about the subject.

     In virtue of the agreement of reciprocal effect established with the offices related with COPADES™ in El Salvador and Costa Rica, the members of GEA™ whose stay in any of those countries will coincide with the monthly meetings they held (COPADES™, S.A. de C.V. in San Salvador and CEFSA in San José), will have the right to attend to the meeting, previous notice, without any additional cost.

     Both the reports and the monthly meetings of the GEA™ Consulting Program have a very dynamic structure and are adequate to the briefness and concision required by its participants. When required, there are some extraordinary meetings to discuss events of special transcendence.

     There is no ordinary meeting in January, because COPADES™ personnel have vacation from the last days of December through the first days of January each year. However, the members of the Program will receive a summarized document of the follow-up of Guatemala’s economic and financial indicators to December of the previous year.