1. Greetings - Introduction (10.00- 10.15)
    Deputy Minister for Economy and Finance, Mr. Christos Folias
    Minister for Local Development, Mr. Jiri Paroubek

2. The EU- Regional and Cohesion policy (10.15- 10.30)
    Mr. Kostis Hatzidakis, MEP

3. Structural Funds- The Greek experience (10.30- 11.30)

• The Greek CSF and the role of the Ministry of Economy & Finance /central Managing Authority
  Mr. N. Sofos, General Secretariat for Investment and Development
  
• Coordination of programmes. Financial Flows to final beneficiaries. Controls. The Greek Management Information System - MIS (“OΠΣ”). The Programming period 2007-2013
  Heads of Directorates of the central Managing Authority- Ministry of Economy and Finance :
  Mr A. Goumas - MIS,
  Mr K. Koukolias - Coordination of the implementation of the OPS,
  Mr D. Sousounis – Single Paying Authority,
  Mrs. M. Vergopoulou – Cohesion Fund,
  Mrs Kostopoulou – Head of "Strategy and policies" Unit of the Directorate for Strategy, Planning and Evaluation of Development programme.
  

4. Coffee Break (11.30- 12.00)

5. Structural Funds- The Greek experience- second part (12.00- 13.00)

• Administrative capacity in local/ regional administration
  • Mr. G. Tsiotras, Secretary General of Central Macedonia
  • Mr. P. Koukoulopoulos, President of KEDKE (Central Union of Municipalities & Communities of Greece)
  • Mr. S. Kefalidis, General Manager of Rodopi Development Company S.A.
  
  
• A good practice to implement infrastructure projects
  Ms Z. Papasiopi, Deputy General Manager - Support - "EGNATIA ODOS s.a."

6. Programmes of Interregional/Intergovernmental/Transborder Cooperation (13.00- 13.15)
    Mr K. Kokkinoplitis, Head of Managing Authority “Interreg”

7. Presentation of the Czech situation (13.15- 14.00)

• Structural funds in the Czech Republic in the period 2004-2006
  Mrs. Vera Jourova, Deputy Minister of Regional Development
• Common Regional Operational Programme and the role of the regions
  Managing Authority of the Regional Operational Mrs. Ivana Kruzelova - Head Officer of Management Unit
• The Czech regions
  Heads of the regions/ Mayors of the Czech Republic

8. Discussion- Conclusions