2017 Bulgaria

Welcome

Welcome and Introduction by Pierre-Olivier Drege, ELO President
Welcome by Verginiya Krasteva, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Welcome by Stayko Staykov (BAALO President) & Dimitar Kanariev (NABBS Chairman)
Welcome by Emil Milivojevic, SDF Commercial Director for South East Europe

Panel 1: How the Sustainable Development Goals can help address global agriculture issues?

Keynote speaker: Robert Flies, Former Advisor to the Director in the DG Environment,
European Commission
– Respondent: Prof. Dr. Hristina Yancheva, Rector, Agricultural University Plovdiv
– Respondent: Juan Gonzalez- Valero, Head public policy and sustainability, Syngenta
– Respondent: Michael Salm zu Salm, FCS President
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist

Panel 2: Where is the Common Agricultural Policy reform going?

Keynote speaker: Allan Buckwell, RISE Foundation
Respondent: Vladimir Urutchev, MEP
– Respondent: Ventsislav Varbanov, Chairperson, Bulgarian Association of Agricultural Producers (BAAP)
– Respondent: Rangel Matansky, National Alliance of Cattle Breeders in Bulgaria
Respondent: Pierre-Olivier Drege, ELO President
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist

Lunch

Panel 3: How can competitiveness and environmental protection coexist within the Bulgarian agriculture landscape?

Keynote speaker: Verginiya Krasteva, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
– Respondent: Nikolay Kantchev, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water
– Respondent: Galina Peytcheva-Miteva, Member of the Board of Managers, Bulgarian
Association of Agricultural Land Owners (BAALO)
– Respondent: Mariela Yordanova, Deputy chairman, National Grain Producers
Association
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist