Conference Festival of Oil - Olive

Conference Festival of Oil - Olive

17th - 19th March 2006
Multi-space "Athinais" - Votanikos, Athens

The European Organisation for Strategic Planning, respecting the effort of the olive oil producers and the olive oil-pressers for the upgrade and prominence of the two most important of our national products, wanted through the organisation of the Conference Festival Exhibition of olive and olive oil to honour the above two contributors for their great offer to the agricultural economy and the olive and olive oil field especially.
Olive oil and table olives are traditional nutritional products for Greeks and the above products produced in Greece are the best, on the international level, regarding taste, quality and nutritional value.
Thousands of families up to date are handling the production of those products, maintaining the social web in mountainous and disadvantaged areas of the country where mainly they are cultivated.
To the above thousands of olive cultivators' families, approximately 2,500 oil-pressers are providing their services being established in the production area, contributing the most to the local agricultural and national economy.

Objective of the Two-day conference:

The maintenance of the social web in the mountainous, semi-mountainous (disadvantaged) areas of Greece where olive is mainly produced
The prominence of the contributors to olive production for their important contribution regarding effectiveness and innovation in the development of Agriculture
The prominence of the unique in taste and nutritional value traditional products of our country, olive and olive oil
The contribution to the rationalisation of the commercial channels with the protection of the environment from adulterated and mixed degraded olive oils
The contribution to the improvement of the presentation and preparation of the products in branded and marketable packages
The contribution in the development and application of integrated systems for the administration of production and security of quality and hygiene of the products
The contribution to the improvement and monitoring of sanitary products
The prominence of the problems of olive producers and oil pressers in the frames of jointly seeking solutions for the benefit of themselves and the economy in general

Program:
FRIDAY 17th March 2006

18:30 INAUGURATION OF EXHIBITION
19:00 OPENING OF CONFERENCE
Coordinators:
Mr. Theodoros Panagoulis - Journalist
Mr. Georgios Anastopoulos - Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Helioupolis
Mr. Georgios Stathis - President of the 3rd Municipal Partition of the Municipality of Athens.
Cultural Committee of the 3rd Municipal Partition of the Municipality of Athens
(Ms. E.Metaxa, E.Vaggelatou, I.Theodorakopoulos, M.Athanasiou, E.Xideas)

Panel Participation:
Prefect of Evia: Mr. Athanasios Bourandas
Mayor of Asklipieio Argolida: Mr. Alexandros Tsilogiannis
Mayor of Chalkida: Mr. Dimitrios Anagnostakis

Officials' Greetings
Mr. Theodoros Bechrakis - Mayor of Athens, Representative of EOSP
Mr. Alexandros Kondos: Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food
Awarding for the Municipality of Asklipieio Argolida for Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) - Golden Award
Awarding the Honoured Region for the Year of Olive Oil and Olive 2006 - Evia Region
President of the Local Union of Municipalities & Communities (TEDK) - Mayor of Chalkida: Mr. Dimitrios Anagnostakis
Prefect of Evia: Mr. Athanasios Bourandas

20:15 Closure of Proceedings
20:15 - 21:00 Visit of the conference representation to the exhibition area

SATURDAY 18th March 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Participants' Arrivals - Registrations
Coordinators:
Mr. Nikolaos Kokkas, Mechanical Engineer
Mr. Grigorios Panonidis, Agronomist
Mr. Georgios Economou - Director of Greek Association of Industries and Processors of Olive Oil (SEVITEL)

Awarding the Oil Press of Mani - Mr. Georgios Skarpalezos

09:30 - 10:00 OFFICIALS' GREETINGS
Mr. Spyridon Tsirigotis - President EOSP Directorate of Self-Government
Mr. Panagiotis Efthimiadis - Professor of the Agricultural University of Athens
Mr. Evaggelos Basiakos - Minister of Rural Development and Food
Mr. Tzanetos Karamichas - President of the Pan-Hellenic Confederation of the Agricultural Cooperatives Unions (PASEGES)
Mr. Christos Avgoulas - General Secretary of Agricultural Politics and International Relations, Ministry of Rural Development & Food
Mr. Georgios Foudas - Vice-prefect of Athens
Mr. Ioannis Papathanasiou - Deputy Minister of Commerce
Mr. Konstantinos Manousos Voloudakis - General Secretary of Commerce
Mr. Nelos Georgoudis - President of the Pan-hellenic Association of Table Olives Processors, Packers & Exporters (PEMETE)
Mr. Christos Theodorou - President of the Hellenic Association of Olive Oil - Industries (SELE)

BEGINNING OF SPEECHES
A' SESSION
10:00 - 10:15 Greeting: Mr. Cheng Dayan - Economic and Commercial Counselor, Economic and Commercial Section -P.R. of China10:15 - 10:30 SUBJECT: Olive Oil and life quality - The role of the General Chemical State Laboratory
Introducer: Mr. Aristotelis Kanlis - General Director of the General Chemical State Laboratory
10:30 - 10:45 SUBJECT: The new policies of EU for Olive Oil
Introducer: Ms. Eleni Tzavara - Head of the Olive Department of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
10:45 - 11:00 SUBJECT: Olive Oil Exports and International Competition
Introducer: Ms. Rea Kartelia - Responsible of the export department of ELAIS S.A.

B' SESSION
11:00 - 11:15 SUBJECT: Networks of trading and distribution of Olive Oil
Introducer: Mr. Giorgos Ikonomou - Director of SEVITEL
11:15 - 11:45 SUBJECT: Combat of Adulteration & Illegal Trade / Contribution of Packing in the prominence of Greek Olive Oil
Introducer: Giannis Bouras - Marketing Manager of MINERVA S.A

C' SESSION
11:45 - 12:00 SUBJECT: Ecological pollution of the Olive processing units for the production of Olive Oil and Edible Olives
Introducer: Mr. D. Georgakakis, Professor of the Agricultural University of Athens
12:00 - 12:15 SUBJECT: Olive - Olive Oil Culture and waste management
Introducer: Mr. Efstathios Koutseris - Agronomist, Environment Rural Planning, DEA, PhD University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development Volos
12:15 - 12:30 SUBJECT: Presentation of the European Program for the integrated approach to the sustainable olive oil and table olives production (INASOOP)
Introducer: Dr. Kl. Israilidis - Head of the Biotechnology Laboratory of National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), Scientific Responsible of the Program INASOOP.
12:30 - 13:00 SUBJECT: "Biological agriculture, Olive Cultivation and its Certification"
Introducer: Mr. Dim. Bilalis - Assistant Professor of the Agricultural University of Athens
Introducer: Mr. Sp. Sgouros - President of the Organisation for Control and Certification of Biological Products (DIO)

Coordinators
Mr. Dimitrios Tsiggounis - Mayor of Leonidio - President of the Development Company Parnonas
Mr. Alexandros Tsilogiannis - Mayor of Asklipieio - President of TEDK of Argolida
Mr. Marinos Beretsos - General Director of the Company Peloponnisos Strategic Planning & Development Centre (KSSA)

D' SESSION
13:00 - 13:15 SUBJECT: Exports of olive oil in the China market
Introducer: Luuk Joseph Soons - Hellenic-Chinese Chamber
13:15 - 13:30 SUBJECT: The Greek and International Market of Table Olive - Networks of trade and distribution of Table Olive
Introducer: Mr. Ch. Siouras - Member of the Board of Directors of PEMETE
13:30 - 14:00 SUBJECT: Exports of Table Olives and International Competition - The "Kalamata" Olive, Problems and Perspectives
Introducer: Ms. K. Papageorgiou - Member of the Board of Directors of PEMETE
14:00 - 14:15 SUBJECT: The "Amfissa" Olive, Problems and Perspectives
Introducer: Mr. Ioannis Kourelis - Agronomist14:15 - 14:30 SUBJECT: Olive tree and Athens. The inclusion of the Olive tree in the city's green.
Introducer: Ms. Ekaterini Kotrotsou, Head of Department of Green, 3rd Partition of the Municipality of Athens
15:00 ROUND TABLE
Self-government bodies and 4th Programming Period
The role of the Support Structures of the Countryside Development

SUBJECT: The role of the Development companies - Teams of local actions in the regional and local development
Introducer: Mr. Anastasios Perimenis, Director of the Prefectural Development Company of Lesvos S.A.
15:15 - 15:45 SUBJECT: The role of the Development Companies in the 4th Programming Period
Introducer: Mr. Alexandros Tsilogiannis - President of the Board of the Company Peloponnisos KSSA - Mayor of Asklipieio
15:45 - 16:00 SUBJECT: The Development Companies Entrepreneurial Structures in the Countryside
Introducer: Mr. Marinos Beretsos - General Director of the Company Peloponnisos KSSA
16:00 - 16:15 : SUBJECT: The next generation of programs for Agricultural Development - New forms of governance.
Introducer: Ms. Yolanda Totsiou - Agronomist
16:15 - 16:45 SUBJECT: Possibilities and applications of the geographical systems ArcG IS in Agriculture and the Local Self-government.
Introducer: Mr. Adonis Kondos - President of Marathon Data System
17:00 - 17:30 Participants' Arrivals - Registrations

Coordinators
Mr. Efstathios Anastasopoulos - Chemist, President of the Development Company of Messinia S.A.
Mr. Ioannis Kourelis - Agronomist
Mr. Dimitrios Bilalis - Assistant Professor of the Agricultural University of Athens

E' SESSION
18:00 - 18:15 SUBJECT: "Quality of olive oil and study of optical survey for the separation of olive fruit - The problems created to the Olive Oil due to its trade in bulk form.
Introducer: Mr. Apost. Kyritsakis - Professor of TEI Thessaloniki - member of the Scientific Board of the Hellenic Food Authority

F' SESSION
18:15 - 18:30 SUBJECT: Quality characteristics of the Olive Oil of Messinia - Polyphenols
Introducer: Mr. Efstathios Anastasopoulos - Chemist, President of the Development Company of Messinia S.A.
18:15 - 18:30 SUBJECT: Flavouring ingredients and organoleptic characteristics of Olive Oil. Nutritional Value
Introducer: Mr. Panagiotis Renieris - Olive Oil Presser - Packer
18:30 - 18:45 SUBJECT: "Increase in performance for Olive production"
Introducer: Mr. Antonis Antonopoulos - Chemist M.A. - BIODYNAMICS S.A.
18:45 - 19:00 SUBJECT: Financial aids for Olive Production
Introducer: Mr. Kon. Stournaras - Agronomist - Olive Department of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
19:00 - 19:30 SUBJECT: Selected olive oils with indication of Protected Designation of Origin and Protected Geographical Indication (PDO &
PGI), Problems and Perspectives.
Introducer: Mr. Pavlos Dimitriou - Agronomist, PDO-PGI Department, Directorate of Biological Agriculture of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food

G' SESSION
19:30 -20:15 SUBJECT: The integrated administration and biological cultivation of Olive. The Certification, Guarantee for the producer and
the consumer (AGRO standards)
SUBJECT: The development and application of systems for quality assurance. Certification according to the ELOT standard (HACCP)
Introducer: Mr. Stelios Drys - Managing Director of FOOD STANDARD

20:15 Closure of Proceedings

SUNDAY 19th March 2006
09:00 - 10:00 Participants' Arrival - Registrations

Coordinators
Mr. Nikolaos Kokkas - Mechanical Engineer
Mr. Konstantinos Kalantzis - President of the Olive Oil pressers of Corinth
Mr. Panagiotis Karagiannis - Kappa Development
Mr. Grigorios Panonidis - Agronomist

OFFICIALS' GREETINGS
Mr. Konstantinos Skiadas - General Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Mr. Giorgos Goniotakis - President of General Confederation of Greek Agrarian Association (GESASE)
Mr. Manolis Gianoulis - President of the Association of Greek Industries of Seed-oil and Soap Production (SPEL)

A' SESSION
10:30 - 11:00 SUBJECT: Olive Pressers in Greece. Present and Future
Introducer: Mr. Konstantinos Kalantzis - President of Olive Pressers of Corinth

B' SESSION
11:00 - 12:00 SUBJECT: Financing of Olive Pressers by Credit Institutions, Loan Redemption
Introducer: Mr. Stylianos Iliadis - Bank of Piraeus, Regional Director of Aegean Islands
12:00 - 12:30 SUBJECT: Investment policies in the Olive Oil Sector by the Cooperative Enterprises
Introducer: Mr. Ioannis Tsiforos - General Director of PASEGES
12:30 - 13:00 SUBJECT: Development Laws and regulations of European Union, 4th CSF - Ways of financing
Introducer: Mr. Grigorios Panonidis - Agronomist
13:00 - 13:30 SUBJECT: The taxing system
Introducer: Mr. Panagiotis Karagiannis - Kappa Development

C' SESSION
13:30 - 14:00 SUBJECT: Integrated Waste Management for the Olive Oil Industries. European Practices
Introducer: Mr. Gouverakis - Environmental Technologist
14:00 - 14:30 SUBJECT: Financial Mechanisms for Integrated Waste Management of the olive industries
Introducer: Mr. Grigorios Panonidis - Agronomist

15:00 Closure of Conference Proceedings