NGO-Strategy meeting

Date: 15th November
Venue: Hotel Springer-Schlößl

09:00 Opening

09:10 Lessons from the GE-free zone seminar

  • National strategies, common experiences, differences and other initiatives

09:40 What worked out well, what went wrong?

  • Examples from countries

11:00 Break

11:30 Reinforcing the GE-free zone work

  • Can we combine the experiences in following fields with the work on GE free zones?
    – Organic farming
    – Market campaigns
    – Conventional farmers
    – GE seed legislation
    – Insurance companies
    – Liability/redress, court cases
    – New scientific evidence
    – Other ideas?

With possibilities to form working groups after plenary to develop the ideas

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Reinforcing the GE-free zone work – Reports

  • Reports of working groups to plenary

15:15 Developing Action Plans

  • Facilitated working groups
    – Accession States Working Group
    – European Union Working Group
    – South-East Europe Working Group

Break included

17:30 Developing Action Plans – Reports

  • Reports of working groups to plenary

18:30 closure


Venue:
Hotel Springer-Schlößl
Tivoligasse 73
Vienna, Austria