Ukraine - Panel

Enhancing the efficiency of the agricultural and food industry in Ukraine – Potential and Strategies from the Perspective of Policy-makers and Business

15 January 2010, 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm, International Congress Center ICC Berlin, hall 6
(draft programme as of 15 December 2009)

Organisers:
Working Group on Agriculture, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA)

In cooperation with:     
German Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin
Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Kiev
Embassy of Ukraine, Berlin
Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, Kiev
Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin

PROGRAMME

WELCOME
Dr. Franz-Georg von Busse, Spokesman, Working Group on Agriculture, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA), Berlin

WELCOMING ADDRESS
Dr. Gerd Müller, Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin (to be confirmed)

INTRODUCTORY TALKS
Dr. Jurij Melnik, Minister for Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Kiev (to be confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann, Managing Director, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Leipzig

PANEL DISCUSSION
Dr. Jurij Melnik, Minister for Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Kiev
Dr. Gerd Müller, Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin
Christoph Wigger, Vice President Sales and Marketing GUS, Deere & Company European Office, Mannheim
Joachim Leuschner, Chairman, AMTU (association on sustainable development of modern agricultural methods and technologies in the Ukraine)
Hartmut Schimetschek, Director Business Development Eastern Europe, OSI International GmbH, Günzburg
Dr. Alex Lissitsa, President, Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB), Kiev

MODERATION
Dr. Lothar Hövelmann, Director Agriculture, Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. (DLG), Frankfurt / Main

The event will be translated simultaneously from Ukranian to German and German to Ukranian.