Programme

8.45 – 9.00 a.m.  |  Registration of participants

9.00 – 10.30 a.m. |  Opening session

• Opening remarks by Mr Alfredas Jonuška and Ms Zoriana Mishchuk, co-chairs of the EU-Ukraine CSP

Assessment of the state of play in the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

• Mr Luc Devigne, Director Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional cooperation and OSCE, European External Action Service (tbc)
• Mr Mykola Tochytskyi, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the EU (tbc)
• Mr Peter Wagner, Head of Support Group for Ukraine (tbc)

Debate

10.30 – 10.45 a.m.  |  Coffee break

10.45 a.m. – 12.00 | Discussion on the first year of the EU-Ukraine DCFTA implementation

Presentation and adoption of the reports:

• Ms Nataliya Andrusevych, member of CSP
• Mr Simo Tianen, member of EESC

Debate

Intervention by a representative from DG Trade (tbc)

12.00 – 1 p.m. | Preliminary discussion on media freedom

• Ms Indre Vareikyte, member of the CSP
• Ms Liliia Oleksiuk, member of the CSP

Debate

1 – 2.30 p.m.  |  Lunch – EESC

2.30 – 3.45 p.m. |  Discussion on Environmental protection under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Presentation and adoption of the reports:

• Ms Ms Sofia Bounou, Business Europe, permanent observer of the CSP
• Ms Tetiana Tymoshenko, member of the CSP

Intervention by  Mr Bartosz Studniarski, Policy Coordinator, trade relations with Ukraine and Eurasian Economic Union, DG TRADE

3.45 – 4 p.m. |  Coffee break

4 – 4.45 p.m.   |  Planning of the future work of the Platform

4.45 – 5.30 p.m. |  Adoption of the Joint Declaration

5.30 p.m.    |  End of the meeting