Exploring agricultural policy futures for small accession economies in an enlarged EU

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Opening and Welcome

• Dr Ioannis Papadopoulos ()
  Director, Agricultural Research Institute
• Mr George Vassiliou ()
  Chief Negotiator for the Accession of Cyprus to the EU
• Mr Michael Constantinides ()
  Permanent Secretary, Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment

Session I - General issues on agriculture

• HE Adriaan Van Der Meer ()
  Ambassador, EU Delegation in Cyprus
  The enlargement negotiations, phasing-in direct aids, production quotas, enlargement problems in agriculture
• Dr Alan Swinbank ()
  Reading University, UK
  The CAP and the EU - Background, development and structure of the CAP, today's CAP
• Dr Antonis Constantinou ()
  Director, Agriculture Dept, Cyprus
  GATT and WTO negotiations on Agriculture. The Doha Development Agenda

Session II - Accession negotiations - Chapter VII, Agriculture

• Mr Christakis Papayiannis ()
  Ministry of Agriculture, Cyprus
  The Cyprus experience
• Dr Leonard Mizzi ()
  Malta Business Bureau
  Malta's experience
• Mr Toomas Kevvai ()
  Ministry of Agriculture
  The Estonia experience
• Ms Elzbieta Sakowska ()
  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
  The Polish experience

Session III - Working Session - The role of foresight in agricultural policy issues

• Dr Patrick Crehan ()
  CKA Belgium
  The eForesee Programme
• Dr Emmanuel Koukios ()
  Greek National Foresight
• Dr Napoleon Maravegias ()
  Foresight Agriculture Committee
• Mr Marinos Markou ()
  Cyprus first pilot results

Conclusion

• Wrap-up and Conclusion