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CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVECENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE
Rome, 28 February 2005Rome, 28 February 2005
Presentation by Vincenzo Calogero, Head of CEI Project SecretariatPresentation by Vincenzo Calogero, Head of CEI Project Secretariat
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11stst Annual Meeting of the CEI EastAgri Network Annual Meeting of the CEI EastAgri Network
HISTORYHISTORY
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19891989 In Budapest, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslavia gave birth to the quadrilateral co-operation.
19901990 Entry of Czechoslovakia (pentagonal group).
19911991Entry of Poland (hexagonal group) and establishment of the link with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with a joint Secretariat for CEI Projects.
Entry of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. The organisation became Central European Initiative.
19921992
19931993 Entry of Macedonia and of the two new independent Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Entry of Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. The CEI agreed on guidelines for activities and rules of procedures. In Trieste the CEI Centre for Information and Documentation (CID) was opened and a project-oriented methodology for the CEI co-operation was agreed.
1995-961995-96
19971997
20002000
The CEI-CID became CEI-Executive Secretariat.
Entry of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
MEMBER MEMBER STATESSTATES
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ALBANIA
AUSTRIA
BELARUS
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BULGARIA
CROATIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
HUNGARY
ITALY
MACEDONIA
MOLDOVA
POLAND
ROMANIA
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
SLOVAKIA
SLOVENIA
UKRAINE
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CEI StrategyCEI Strategy
The CEI programme and projects in the various fields of activity are intended to contribute, within the overall CEI strategy of cohesion and solidarity in Europe, to the realisation of the three principal CEI objectives:
•to strengthen co-operation between Member States;
•to strengthen the process of economic transformation
of the CEI countries in transition;
• to strengthen the participation of all member States to the process of European integration.
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Organisational StructureOrganisational Structure
• Summit of Heads of Governments (annual)
• Ministers of Economic Sectors and Summit
Economic Forum (annual)
• Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (annual)
• Meeting of Political Directors of MFAs (annual)
• Committee of National Coordinators (monthly)
• Sectorial Ministerial Meetings
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
ProjectsProjectsCEI Projects
Project/Programme supported by the CEIProject/Programme supported by the CEI
CEI Contribution: EUR million
TTRRAANNSSPPOORRTT
Ukraine: Kiev to Western border highway study 0.8
CETI R: Central European Transport I nformation Reporting system 1.5
Ukraine: Air Navigation Project 0.2
Sarajevo Airport Master Plan and Training 0.2
Sarajevo Airport lighting and equipment 0.4
Procurement assistance to EBRD Transport Team 0.1
CEI Road Rehabilitation - Corridor VI I I Albania 1.7
CEI Romanian Railways Co-operation Project 0.4
CEI assistance to Macedonian Air Navigation 0.7
CEI assistance to Sofia Parking System 0.2
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
ProjectsProjectsCEI Projects
Project/Programme supported by the CEIProject/Programme supported by the CEI
AGRICULTUREAGRICULTUREin million EUR
Agricultural Wholesale Markets – Croatia 1.2
Assistance to the agricultural wholesale market in Poland (with UNECE)
0.2
Programme for Agricultural Wholesale Markets in CEI countries (with FAO)
0.4
EastAgri CEI Network (with FAO) 0.07
SMEsSMEs
Albania CEI Micro-financing (with WB, UNECE) 0.3
Business Advisory Services (CEI BAS Croatia, BIH, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Macedonia)
3.5
CEI TAM Privatisation Support to SMEs (Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine)
0.6
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
EaastAgriEaastAgri
connectionsconnections
CEI – EastAgri connectionsCEI – EastAgri connections• Business partnerships in agriculture: investor
meets investor (P.O.M.)
• Capacity building to promote agricultural development:
donors meet beneficiaries (KEP); distribution/ quality
systems (WMF)
• Employment: local sub-contracting, microfinancing
USING:
•The power of information: visibility, access to
opportunities, LDN (knowledge intermediaries)
•The power of people networks: investors, private sector (CECCI, C.o.A.), technology (consultants, academics), financial sector, government, international organisations (SEF, C.A.s, WG)
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
Agriculture
Activities in agriculture
CEI activitCEI activitiies in agriculturees in agriculture
• Technical Co-operation with IFIs and International Organisations (Wholesale Markets, EastAgri, Microfinancing, …)
• Meetings of Working Group on Agriculture (e.g. twice yearly)
• Meetings of CEI Ministers of Agriculture (NOV 05, SEP 04, SEP 02 ….)
• Support to Co-operation Activities (e.g. Agriest Udine,
Phitosanitary Portoroz,…)
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
Agriculture
WM FoundationCEI Wholesale Markets FoundationCEI Wholesale Markets Foundation
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FAO/CEI-EBRD founded project to help newly created wholesale market companies in Eastern and Central
Europe improve and develop their operations
• exchange of information, good practices and experience
• improvement in market operations
• improvement in services to attract large-scale,
modern retailers
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
POMPOMNetworking Forms
NETWORKING FORMSNETWORKING FORMSCEI economic cooperation creates a
network of people with shared interests
o Technical Cooperation Summary (Technical assistance required for an investment project, e.g. feasibility study; Seminar, workshop, or institutional programme)
CEI permanent network of members and projects
CEI match-making at the CEI Summit Economic Forum
o Investment Project Summary (Project description; Sponsors; Total project cost, funding available and requested; annual gross revenue)
o Organization Summary (Organisation data; products, services, activities; countries of interest; organization structure; what they offer and what they look for)
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
POMPOMCEI Project Database
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CEI PROJECT DATABASE
SEF
PROJECTGUIDE
INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCIES/ CHAMBERS OF
COMMERCE
LOCAL INTERMEDIARIES/
BANKS
IFIs
INVESTORS
EXPERTS
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
88thth Summit Summit Economic Economic
ForumForum
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THE EIGHTHCEI SUMMIT ECONOMIC FORUMBRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA, 22-24 NOVEMBER 2005
Sharing knowledge in business
- Business and financial community - entrepreneurs investing in central and eastern Europe
- Co-organised with the Slovakian CEI Presidency - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy and the Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Slovakia - sponsored by the Italian Government.
- International fora such as the EU, OECD, FAO, UNECE (also with TEM, TER), UNIDO, EBRD, World Bank (also with IFC, MIGA), Council of Europe Development Bank, Stability Pact as well as by Chambers of Commerce, Euroregions, Investment Promotion Agencies such as ICE (Institute for Foreign Trade, Italy)…
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CEI Forum – Project DimensionCEI Forum – Project Dimension
• PUBLISHED PROJECTS (Publication available to all participants)
Over the past six years, the Forum has created a network of information and personal contacts where project opportunities can be identified, promoted and
strengthened through cooperation arrangements
88thth Summit Summit Economic Economic
ForumForumCEI Forum –
Project Dimension
• PROJECT ROOM (Computer Database consultation)
• PROJECTS PRESENTATIONS (presentations by project promoters also available for bilateral meetings and documented by posters and publications)
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
88thth Summit Summit Economic Economic
ForumForumForum
Networking Activities
• Internet pages for past and future Summit Economic For a (www.ceinet.org/SEF)
Forum Networking ActivitiesForum Networking Activities
• Interactive Business Area – IBA (business info desks for practical advice to SMEs, exhibitor stands and promotional desks, “virtual presentations”
• Focused meetings (informal, ad hoc meetings, sometimes arranged on the spot, 10-20 participants in a small room)
• Bilateral meetings (two organisations meeting in a small room, or informal meetings at stands)
• Social events (evening receptions and concerts for networking)
• Match making (Networking Forms used during the year, personal contacts at the Forum, assisted by special software and a “match-making desks”)
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
Summit Summit Economic Economic
ForumForumForum
Participants
• The press
Forum ParticipantsForum Participants
• The business community, companies, entrepreneurs, industry leaders
• Government agencies
• International fora such as the EU, OECD, FAO, UNECE (also with TEM, TER), UNIDO, EBRD, World Bank (also with IFC, MIGA), Council of Europe Development Bank, Stability Pact
• Chambers of Commerce, Euroregions, Investment Promotion Agencies
• Technology institutes
• Consultants, academics, professionals
Central European InitiativeCentral European Initiative
CEI in agriculture
Contacts
ContactsContacts• CEI Trieste
Adrian Keler, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +39 040 7786 732
• EBRD (CEI Secretariat) London
Cinzia Pica, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +44 20 7338 7471
• CEI Working Group on Agriculture
Prof. Janina Sawicka (Chair), Warsaw, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +48 22 843 90 41 ext. 34013
• Wholesale Markets Foundation, Warsaw
Bartosz Fabiszewski, e-mail [email protected], tel. +48 604171 701
• FAO Rome, Wholesale Markets
Emmanuel Hidier, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +39 06 57 05 41 94
• FAO Rome, EastAgri Network
Nada Zvekic, e-mail: [email protected], tel. +39 06 57 05 54 74