WORLD  TRADE ORGANIZATION

 

Doha Development Agenda:

Preparation of the Cancun Ministerial Conference'

Thessaloniki, Greece, 11-12 June 2003

 

Regional Seminar for Trade Policy Officials of Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) Members

Draft Programme

 

Wednesday June 11

 

09.00-09.30

Word of Welcome: Ass. Professor P. Naskou-Perraki, Secretary of CIEEL, Mr. Dimitrios Vlachos, Director, Ministry Economy and Finance: Representative of Greek Government, Mr. Maarten Smeets, Counsellor, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, WTO, Mr. Valeri Chechelashvili, Secretary General, BSEC, Mr. Mustafa Gurtin, President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Mr. Emanuel Vlachoyiannis, Second Vice-President of Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Member of the Bureau of European Economic and Social Committee of the EU,  Mr. Yannis Papadopoulos,  President of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki

09.30-10.45

Doha Development Agenda:  The State of Play

Maarten Smeets, Counsellor, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation

10.45-11.00

Coffee

11.00-13.00

Market Access for Non Agricultural Goods

Xiaobing Tang, Counsellor, Market Access Division, WTO

13.00-14.00

Light Lunch

14.00-15.15

Agriculture

Mr. George Mermingas, Hellenic Ministry of Agriculture, Division of International Agricultural Policy and Documentation

Ashot Paghossian, BSEC

15.15-15.30

Coffee

15.30-17.00

 

17.00-17.15

Services

Philippe Borel, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade in Services Division, WTO

Intervention Yiannis Tzionas, Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia

Thursday June 12  

 

09.30-11.00

 

Singapore Issues

Maarten Smeets, Counsellor, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation

11.00-11.30

Coffee

 

11.30-13.00

Preferential Trade and Regional Cooperation between BSEC Members

BSEC Secretariat

Dr. Georges Myrogiannis, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Greece to WTO

13.00-14.00

Light Lunch

14.00-15.30

Technical Cooperation Requirements

Maarten Smeets, Counsellor, Dr. Georges Myrogiannis,

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-17.30

Round Table Discussion and Conclusion