The Conference of Ministers of Agriculture Sielnica, Slovakia 3.- 4.11.2005
“Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”
The Central European Initiative (CEI – www.ceinet.org ) is composed of 17 Member States: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Side Event –Experts meeting of the forestry section – 3.11.2005 – “Sustainable Forestry
Program proposal
Opening and Welcome (on behalf of Ministry of Agriculture: Julius Novotny, FRI Zvolen)
2. Introduction statement:
“Social and environmental needs and demands from forest land use” (requested: Mr. Edward Rametsteiner, University Vienna/MCPFE)
3. Invited speakers: (see list below)
4. Discussion
Draft recommendations (as input to the Ministerial Conference)
Proposed speakers (order can be discussed later):

Sustainable forest management in Slovakia – approaches and challenges (proposed earlier: Mr. Julius Novotny, FRI, Zvolen
Private forestry and its contribution to sustainable forest land use (requested: Mr. Atilla Lengyel, CEPF, Budapest)
Diversification of forest goods, products and services from forest land use (requested: Mr. Rainer Koepsel, Lower Sachsony Forest Administration)
Law enforcement and governance of forest land use (requested: Mr. Peter Dewees, World Bank, Washington)
Case studies
The legislation and forest management planning based on sustainable forest management principles (proposed earlier: Jaroslav Vaąíček, FMI, Brandys nad Labem)
The negative factors influencing sustainable forest management like lack of finance, illegal logging etc. (proposed earlier: Viktor Parfenyuk, SFC, Ukraine)
Multifunctionality and the policy framework of forest land use (Volker Sasse, FAO/SEUR)
Environmental benefits from forests in CEI countries and their conservation (requested: Mr. Duncan Pollard, WWF, Gland)
Regional integration of CEI countries to the European policy dialogue on biodiversity in forest land use (requested: Mr. Tamas Marghescu, IUCN, Brussels)
 
Other potential speakers can be following countries representatives (proposed earlier):
Hungary (András Szepesi, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Budapest)