2012 Chlumec nad Cidlinou, Czech Republic

Departure from Mandarin Hotel by bus towards Chlumec nad Cidlinou

Registration & Coffee

Welcome

• Ing. Petr BENDL, Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (tbc)

Introduction and latest updates on the FFA 2012,

•  Thierry de l’ ESCAILLE, Secretary General, European Landowners’ Organization

Session I- CAP post-2013: how does it contribute to sustainable intensification?

Keynote Speaker:

• Prof. Allan BUCKWELL, Adviser on CAP for ELO

Responses:

• Representative of the European Commission, DG AGRI (tbc)
• Ing. Jaroslav PRAŽAN, Head of the Department for Rural Development (UZEI)
• Ing. Josef STEHLIK, President, Czech Association of Private Farmers (ASZ)
• Ing. Michal POSPIŠIL, President, Czech Landowners’ Organization (SVP)

Moderator: Dr. Constantin KINSKÝ, member of Friends of the Countryside and land manager

Panel II: Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity in the farmed and forested landscape

Keynote speaker:

• Dr. Tomáš CHALUPA, Czech Minister for Environment

Responses:

• Representative of the Lithuanian Private Farmers Association (tbc)
• Representative from the Czech Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection (AOPK) (tbc)
• Dr. Ing. Petr MARADA, Mendel University of Brno, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Engineering
• Ing. Stanislav JANSKÝ, Vice – Chairman of the Czech Private Foresters Association, (SVOL)

Moderator: Dr. Ing. Antonín BUČEK, Mendel University of Brno, Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology.

Q&A and debate

Coffee & Snacks Break

Panel III: Greening in practice: experience and future challenges in the Czech Republic rural areas

• Ing. Václav ZÁMEČNĺK, Czech society for Ornithology (ČSO)
• Ing. Jan PEŠOUT, private landowner:
• Dr. Hans Theo JACHMANN, President, Syngenta Germany

Moderator: Thierry de l’ ESCAILLE, Secretary General European Landowners’ Organization (ELO)

Lunch Break

Afternoon program with field visit to the pollinator strips implemented on the property of the company Kinsky dal Borgo a.s.

Departure for Prague