The international scientific-practical conference "EU agriculture and diversification of food markets in the context of the Eastern Partnership” was on 17 November 2015 at 13:30 at the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (V. Kudirkos str. 18–2, Vilnius). Scientists from 15 EU and Eastern Neighbour countries will attend the conference. Areas of conference topics: economic processes taking place in EU neighbour countries; the situation of foreign trade in agricultural and food products in the potential partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
International scientific-practical conference
"EU agriculture and diversification of food markets in the context of the Eastern Partnership"
Programme
13:30–14:00 Registration
14:00–14:10 Opening (Rasa Melnikienė, the Director of Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAEI))
14:10–14:20 Future trade relations with CIS region from a Lithuanian perspective (Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania)
14:20–14:30 AGRICISTRADE project introduction (Sébastien Poulain, Euroquality SARL (EQY), France))
14:30–15:45 Presentation of the project results
- Agriculture and Food Sector in the AGRICISTRADE countries (Artiom Volkov, Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAEI); Agnese Krievina, Latvian State Institute of Agrarian Economics (LVAEI))
- EU Agricultural Trade Relations with the Eastern Neighbours (Siemen Van Berkum, Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI-DLO), the Netherlands)
- Agricultural policy in the selected Former Soviet Union countries (Tina Volk, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (KIS), Emil Erjavec, University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia)
- Market competition in the EU and selected Eastern Neighbour countries(Ivan Djuric, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany)
- Future perspectives for the agricultural and food sector in the AGRICISTRADE countries (Jolanta Droždz, Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAEI))
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–17:45 Round table on EU future trade relations with the selected Former Soviet Union countries
- Comments and opinions from the audience
- Main outcomes of the discussion
17:45–17:55 Conclusions / Concluding remarks
18:00 – External communication event and dinner in Trakai.
Conference language: English.
Event organizer: Jolanta Droždz, junior researcher leading the Division of Agricultural Policy and Foreign Trade, tel. +370 5 261 1684, e-mail: jolanta.drozdz@laei.lt
Sponsor: Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania.
