Programme

13th meeting of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform

11.00 Opening session

Welcome words by co-chairs of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform

  • Mr Marcin Nowacki, EU co-chair
  • Mr Oleksandr Yavorskyi, Ukrainian co-chair

State of play of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and progress in implementing the seven steps outlined by the Commission in its opinion on Ukraine's application for membership of the European Union

Speakers:

  • Mr Serhii Tereshko, DeputyHead ofMission of Ukraine to the EU  
  • Ms Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Head of Committee on European Integration, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
  • Mr Oleksandr Ilkov, Director General, Governmental Office for Coordination of European Integration
  • Ms Petra Gombalová Kyslingerová, Head of Ukraine Division, European External Action Service
  • Ms Natalie Pauwels, Head of Inter-institutional, Coordination of Relief and Reconstruction Unit, Ukraine Service,DG NEAR, European Commission

Discussion

12.45 Establishment of a joint consultative committee as a civil society body monitoring accession negotiations – experience of Croatia

  • Ms Lidija Pavić-Rogošić, Vice-President, Civil Society Organisations' Group, EESC

13.00 Lunch break

14.30 Challenges and possibilities for Ukraine today and in the post-war period with focus on:

Green recovery

  • Mr Oleksandr Yavorskyi, Federation of Employers of Ukraine

Energy

  • Mr Roman Nitsovych, DiXi Group

Environment

  • Ms Natalyia Andrusevysh, Resource and Analysis Center 'Society and Environment'

Employment

  • Mr Rodion Kolyshko, Institute of Professional Qualifications
  • Mr Raymond Maes, DG EMPL, European Commission

Ms Nadiia Afanasieva, Ukrainian Institute for International Politics, CSP Member

Ms Larysa Starikova, Analytical center of the Agricultural Union of Ukraine

Mr Jozef Michálek, Macro-regions, Transnational – Interregional - External Cooperation, Enlargement Unit, DG REGIO, European Commission

16.00 Coffee break

16.15 Enhancing the role of civil society on the way of Ukraine to the EU

Discussion on CSP activities

16.45 Adoption of the joint declaration