Making rural areas the engines of a sustainable Europe
Joint Conference of the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Rural Parliament
14th March 2019 - Room JDE51
Draft agenda
14.30 - 15.00│Introduction
- Mr. Tom Jones, EESC Member, Rapporteur on Rural Development
- Mr. Staffan Nilsson, President of European Rural Community Alliance (ERCA), Co-Chair of the ERP Steering Group
Presentation of the Reflection Paper
- Ms. Florence Buchholzer, Adviser - Foresight and Impact Assessment, Directorate C, DG AGRI, European Commission
15.00 - 16.15│An urgent call for action to new, incoming legislators to step up the role of rural areas in a sustainable Europe
Moderator: Mr. Tom Jones, EESC Rapporteur on Rural Development
- Mr. Goran Šoster, Vice-President of Partnership for Rural Europe (PREPARE), Co-Chair of the ERP Steering Group
- Ms. Maria João Botelho, President of the European LEADER Association for Rural Development (ELARD)
- Mr. Gérard Peltre, President, Rurality-Environment-Development (R.E.D.) / European Countryside Movement (M.E.R.)
- Mr. Eamon O'Hara, Executive Director, European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate change and Sustainability (Ecolise)
- Mr. Juan-Andres Gutierrez, President, European association for mountain areas (Euromontana)
Discussion
16.15 – 16.30│Coffee break
16.30 – 17.45 | Stocktaking of current situation of rural development policy: Assessing accomplishments since Cork 2.0, evaluating prospects post-2020
Moderator: Mr. Josep Puxeu Rocamora, EESC Member, Member of the NAT Section Bureau
- Mr. Lambert van Nistelrooij, Member of the European Parliament
- Mr. Peter Welch, Director of Chamber I, European Court of Auditors
- Mr. Achim Irimescu, Minister Plenipotentiary, representing the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU
- Mr. Guido Castellano, Deputy Head of Unit - Conception and Consistency of Rural Development, DG AGRI, European Commission
- Mr. Guillaume Cros, CoR Rapporteur on the CAP after 2020, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Occitanie (France)
- Mr. Paul Soto, Senior Policy Expert at the Contact Point of the European Network for Rural Development
Discussion
17.45 – 18.00 | Closing remarks
- Mr. Petri Rinne, European Rural Parliament and President of the Finnish Village Movement Association
- Ms. Maria Nikolopoulou, EESC Member, Member of the NAT Section Bureau
Participants can speak in FR/DE/EN/IT/ES/PT and listen to FR/DE/EN