Best Practice workshop on Common Fisheries Policy Reform 16.12.2009
Best Practice workshop on
Common Fisheries Policy Reform
Draft Programme
Location: MDM Hotel, Plac Konstytucji 1, Warszawa
Date: 16 December 2009.
Meeting Objectives:
- To provide successful ideas and methods for how to create change in fisheries policy by working in collaboration with others.
- To provide strategies to influence the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on national and EU level
- To enable the creation of national collaborative platforms to coordinate and strengthen efforts on CFP reform
PROGRAMME
09.00 Introduction Niki Sporrong, Director, The Fisheries Secretariat (FISH)
09.15 Round of introductions and update on current NGO activities - short presentations
Part 1: Best Practice Case Study – Influencing policy through NGO coalition work
09:45 Shark Alliance: A Case Study – Uta Bellion, Director, European Marine Programme, Pew Environment Group and European coordinator of the Shark Alliance.
10.30 Q & A
10:45 Coffee/Tea
Part 2: Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and opportunities for collaboration
11:00 CFP Reform and the OCEAN2012 view – Niki Sporrong, Director, FISH and Steering Group member of OCEAN2012
11.45 Q & A
12.30 Lunch
13.30 The Regionalization of the CFP – Stephanie Schmidt, Desk Officer Baltic, DG MARE, European Commission – TBC
14:15 Questions and discussion about possible regional management structures
15:00 Coffee/Tea
15:15 Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy – what role can we play? – Domitilla Senni, Advocacy and Outreach Adviser to the European Marine Programme, Pew Environment Group, and Christian Tsangarides, Policy Officer, FISH
- How to work with the CFP reform
- Possibilities to form national platforms
16:30 Conclusions and closing remarks
Directions:
The meeting will take place at the MDM Hotel on Plac Konstytucji 1, in Warsaw Central. It is within walking distance to the historical Old Town (20 min walk) and to the Lazienki Palace and Garden Complex (10 min walk). All museums and historical sites are near the hotel.
MDM Hotel Warsaw
Plac Konstytucji 1
00-647 Warszawa, Poland
+48 22 339 16 00
Travel directions:
The hotel is located 7 km (20 min) from the airport. A taxi from the airport to the hotel costs approximately 55 PLN (€16).
The hotel is located only 1km from the Warsaw Central train station. The closest metro station stop, ‘Politechnika’, is located only 100m from the hotel.
Map:
http://www.hotelmdm.com.pl/index.php?pid=230
Link:
http://www.fishsec.org/article.asp?CategoryID=1&ContextID=511