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Project funded by the European Union
EU-Georgia Business Council (EUGBC) seminar:
Prospects of EU-Georgia Association Agreement/DCFTA – Discussing tariff and non-tariff
barriers in the trade with the EU
Agenda
Friday, 31 October 2014, 12:00 – 14:00
Hotel “Solomon 1805” (1, Agmashenebeli sq., Sighnaghi)
Working language: Georgian
11:45 – 12:00
Registration / welcome coffee
12:00 – 12:10
Welcome and opening
• Ambassador Zviad Chumburidze, EUGBC Secretary General
• Governor of Kakheti, Irakli Shiolashvili (tbc)
• Sighnaghi District Governor, Davit Shiolashvili (tbc)
12:10 – 12:30
Tariff barriers in the trade with the EU; Mutual recognition agreements
• Kakha Gogolashvili, Director of EU Studies at Georgian Foundation for
Strategic and International Studies
12:30 – 12:50
Technical barriers in international trade: WTO and TBT agreements, EU
requirements and implications for Georgia
• Nino Chokheli, USAID Economic Prosperity Initiative
12:50 – 13:30
Question & answer session / discussion with the participation of experts
Kakha Gogolashvili, Nino Chokheli, Ketevan Lapachi, Natia Kutivadze, Jose
Medardo
13:30 – 13:40
EUGBC Business Expo and Economic Photo Exhibition in Vienna, Austria
• Ambassador Zviad Chumburidze, EUGBC Secretary General
13:40 – 13:50
Presentation about the Agricultural Cooperatives Development Agency
(ACDA)
• Giorgi Misheladze, ACDA Chairman
13:50 – 14:10
Question & answer session / discussion
14:10 – 14:15
Conclusion, closing remarks