Carpathian Europe Conference - panels

September 7

/Names of panelists are listed in alphabetical order.

16:00 Presentation of the Carpathian Convention

Moderator: Marek Kuchciński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Poland

• Harald Egerer, Chief, Provisional Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, Austria
• Martin Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary General, Association of European Border Regions AEBR, Spain
• József Nagy, Minister, Ministry of Environment, Slovakia /to be confirmed/
• Katarzyna Sobierajska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Sport and Tourism, Poland
• Prof. Dr. Jan Szyszko, MP, Poland
• Janusz Zaleski, Undersecretary of State and Chief Nature Conservation Officer, Ministry of Environment, Poland

September 8

(time to be confirmed) 

Ceremony of signing of the Protocols to the Carpathian Convention by the Polish side:

The protocols will be brought by the authorized representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (depositary), signed by the authorized representatives of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism and the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Poland

11:00 Europe of the Carpathians. Cooperation of European countries in the context of the new budget of the European Union 2014- 2020

Moderator: Bronisław Dutka, Chairman of the Committee on Local Self-Government and Regional Policy, Sejm, Poland

• Barry Gardiner, Vice-President of GLOBE International and Member of the House of Commons, United Kingdom
• Ján Hudacký, State Secretary, Ministry of Regional Development, Slovakia
• Prof. Danuta Hübner, Chair, Committee on Regional Development, European Parliament, Poland
• Petru Luhan, Member of the European Parliament, Romania
• Marceli Niezgoda, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Regional Development, Poland
• Bogusław Sonik, Member of the European Parliament, Poland
• Borys Tarasyuk, Chairman, Committee on European Integration, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine

12:20 Good cooperation practices in Carpathian Europe

Moderator: Władysław Ortyl, Vice-Chairman of the Commission for Local Self-Government
and State Administration, Senate, Poland

• Andrzej Krawczyk, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Slovak Republic, Poland
• Jan Malicki, Director of East European Studies, Warsaw University, Poland
• Markijan Malskyj, Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland, Ukraine
• Josef Polačko, President, Carpathian Euroregion Slovakia-North, Slovakia
• Dr Bohdan Prots, Coordinator, WWF Carpathian-Ukrainian Programme, Ukraine
• Prof. Igor Tsependa, Prorector for International Cooperation, Carpathian University, Ukraine

Commentator: Krzysztof Szczerski, expert at the European Parliament, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Separate panel presentation: Carpathian Agreement "The Carpathians Our Home": Carpathian shepherd