8th meeting, Zagreb, 27 January 2011

Venue: Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

MEMBERS

Members representing Croatia

Ms Lidija Pavić-Rogošić,Co-president

Various Interests Group

Director, Sustaining Community Development (ODRAZ)

Mr Tomislav Goll

Various Interests Group

President, Savez Drustava Distroficara Hrvatske (SDDH)

Ms Marija Hanževački

Employees Group

Secretary-General, Independent Trade Unions of Croatia (NHS)

Ms Ana Milićević Pezelj

Employees Group

Head of the Organization, Education and Publishing Department, Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (SSSH)

Ms Lidija HORVATIć

Employers Group

Director of International Relations and EU Affairs, Croatian Employers' Association

Ms Jelena KATIĆ

Employers Group

Advisor, International Relations and EU Affairs, Croatian Employers' Association

Members representing the EESC

Mr Christoph LECHNER, Co-president

Employees Group

Head of the Department for Constitutional Law and for General and International Social Policy, Lower Austria Chamber of Workers and Employees

Austria

Mr Andrej ZORKO

Employees Group

Executive secretary, Governing board of the Slovenian Association of Free Trade Unions

Slovenia

Mr Göke FRERICHS

Employers Group

Board Member, German Federation for Wholesale and Foreign Trade (BGA)

Germany

Ms Waltraud KLASNIC

Employers Group

Former Governor of Styria

Austria

Mr Roman HAKEN

Various Interests Group

Director, Centre for Community Work (CdKP), Central Moravia

Member of the Government's Advisory Body on NGOs

CzechRepublic

Mr Gilbert BROS

Various Interests Group

Vice-President, Standing Assembly of Chambers of Agriculture (APCA) and President, Agricultural Chamber of Haute-Loire

France

SPEAKERS

Ms Dubravka VLAŠIĆ-PLEŠE

Director General of the Directorate for the coordination and monitoring of the adaptation to the EU Legal System and the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement, Secretary of the negotiating team, Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

Ms Vesna PUSIĆ

President of the National Committee for monitoring accession negotiations of the Republic of Croatia to the EU, Member of the Croatian Parliament

Mr József MAGYAR

Deputy Head of Mission, Hungarian Embassy toCroatia

Mr Pero BILUŠIĆ

Head of Department for Communication Strategy, Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

Mr Paulo BERIZZI

Head of the Political Section, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Croatia

Ms Žaklina JURIŠIĆ

Head of Department for rural development, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development

Prof. Dr. Damir GRUBIŠA

Head of the European Studies Centre, Faculty of Political Sciences

Mr LutzRIBBE

Various Interests Group, EESC Member, and expert on CAP reform

Director of the Department for Nature Conservation Policy of the European Nature Heritage Fund EuroNatur,Germany

PERMANENT OBSERVERS

Ms Marina GAšPAR LUKIć

Head of Section, Croatian Ministry for the Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship

Ms Mirela CVITAK

Department for Political Affairs and EU Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

CROATIAN AUTHORITIES

Mr Vitomir BEGOVIć

Head of the Office for Social Partnership, Government of the Republic of Croatia

Ms Dubravka MATIć

Office for Social Partnership, Government of the Republic of Croatia

EESC Secretariat

Mr Guy HARRISON

Administrator, Section for External Relations

Mr Aurelien JULIARD

Administrator, Section for External Relations

Ms Judit LANDESZ

Assistant, Section for External Relations

OBSERVERS:

Mrs Corine CRESPEL-SAOUT

First Secretary

Embassy of France in Croatia

Ph.D. Višnja SAMARDŽIJA
Head of European Integration Department
Institute for International Relations - IMO

Croatian rural development network - HMRR

MsMirela DESPOTOVIĆ, Member of the Board

Local action groups (LAG)

Mr Petar MAMULA, President, LAG of Gorski Kotar

Ms Draga BITAR, President, LAG of Pigorje-Zagorje (LAG PRIZAG)

Council for civil society development (Savjet za razvoj civilnog društva)

MsEmina BUŽINKIĆ, Mreža mladih Hrvatske

MsBranka KASELJ, Zaklada Slagalica, Osijek

Ms Karin ENODD

Adviser, EFTA

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