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Annual Meeting 2012back

*Central European Initiative Wholesale Markets Foundation

Warsaw Wholesale Market Bronisze

Workshop *

*for Wholesale Market Managers from Central and Eastern Europe

“Efficient cooperation of Wholesale Markets with Wholesale Market traders and producers - support mechanisms for Wholesale Market operators”*

*28-31 May 2012, Poland**



I Forum of Traders and Producers from CEE Wholesale Markets is co-fianced by the Central European Initiative under the Cooperation Activity Programme.



*Arrival day

27 May (Sunday)*

Arrival of the participants to Warsaw

Check-in at the Hotel IBIS Warszawa Stare Miasto (Warsaw Old Town)



20.00 Informal welcome meeting and a glass of wine at the hotel



*Day 1 - FORUM*

*28 May (Monday)*

6.30 Breakfast at the hotel restaurant

7.00 Meeting in the hotel lobby

Departure from the hotel for the Bronisze Wholesale Market



7.30 - 10.00 Tour of the Bronisze Wholesale Market

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 - 12.15 I FORUM OF TRADERS AND PRODUCERS FROM CEE WHOLESALE MARKETS



Session 1 – Wholesale Markets and challenges of modern trade



12.15 - 12.30 Coffee break



12.30 - 14.30 I FORUM OF TRADERS AND PRODUCERS FROM CEE WHOLESALE MARKETS



Session 2 – Forms of cooperation between traders and producers and CEE Wholesale Markets



14.30 - 15.30 Lunch at the Bronisze Wholesale Market

15.30 Departure from the Bronisze WM

15.30 - 16.30 Transfer to Green Factory in Zdunowo (60 km)

16.30 - 19.00 Tour of Green Factory - one the largest vegetable producers and distributors in Poland. Meeting with the company management



19.00 - 19.10 Transfer to the Zdunowo Palace

19.10 - 22.00 Dinner at the Zdunowo Palace

22.00 - 22.30 Transfer from Zdunowo to Warsaw

22.30 Return to Hotel Ibis Warszawa Stare Miasto



*Day 2 - FRUIT

29 May (Tuesday)*

7.00 Breakfast at the hotel restaurant

7.30 Meeting in the hotel lobby (with luggage - after check-out)

Departure from the hotel



7.30 - 10.30 Transfer to Kurowo (170 km)

10.30 - 12.30 Sightseeing program in Kurowo

Narew National Park



12.30 Departure for Białystok

12.30 - 13.10 Transfer from Kurowo to Białystok Kolonia Porosły (25 km)

13.10 - 14.30 Lunch – Dwór Czarneckiego near Białystok

14.30 Departure from Białystok

14.30 - 15.15 Transfer from Białystok to Białousy (42 km)

15.15 - 18.15 Tour of Jerzy Wilczewski Horticultural Farm – one of the largest blueberry plantations in Europe

Meeting with the company management

18.15 Departure from Białousy

18.15 - 19.00 Transfer from Białousy to Dwór Czarneckiego

19.00 - 21.00 Dinner at |Dwór Czarneckiego

21.00 Departure from Białystok

21.00 - 22.30 Transfer from Białystok to Białowieża (90 km)

22.30 Arrival in Białowieża

Check-in at the Best Western Hotel Żubrówka



*Day 3 - FOUNDATION

30 May (Wednesday)*

8.00 - 9:00 Breakfast at the hotel restaurant

9:00 Departure from the hotel to a sightseeing tour in the Białowieża Primeval Forest

9:00 - 13:00 Sightseeing of the Białowieża Primeval Forest

Visiting the European Bison Show Reserve, the Palace Park in the Białowieża Primeval Forest and other tourist attractions of Białowieża

13.00 Departure from the Białowieża Primeval Forest

13.00 - 13.15 Transfer to the Żubrówka Hotel

13.15 - 15.00 Seminar of the Foundation (conference room at the hotel)

Presentations of best practices in WM management – Power Point presentations of all the WMs (part 1)

15.00 - 16.30 Lunch at the hotel restaurant



16.30 - 18.00 Seminar of the Foundation

Presentations of best practices in WM management – Power Point presentations of all the WMs (part 2)



18.00 - 18.15 Coffee break



18.15 - 20.15 *Annual Meeting of the Foundation*

Proposed Agenda:

1. Opening of the Meeting

2. Election of the Chairman and Secretary of the Meeting

3. Approval of the proposed agenda

4. Adoption of resolution on acceptance of new Foundation members

5. Examination of the report of the Management Board on the Foundation activity in 2011 and the financial statements of the Foundation for 2011

6. Adoption of resolutions concerning:

a) approval of the report of the Management Board on the Foundation activity in 2011

b) approval of the financial statements of the Foundation for 2011

c) approval of increase of the Foundation costs in 2012

7. Discussion of the actual legal status of the Foundation new Statute

8. Adoption of the relevant resolutions on the Statute amendments

9. Discussion on the future activities of the Foundation in 2012 and 2013

10. Miscellaneous issues

Closing of the Meeting



Final conclusions and closing of the Foundation workshop



20.15 - 20.45 Free time

20.45 Departure from the hotel to dinner

21.00 - 24.00 Farewell folk dinner at “Pensjonat Sioło Budy”

24.15 Return to the Żubrówka Hotel





*Day 4 - MUSHROOMS*

*31 May (Thursday)*



8.00 Breakfast at the hotel restaurant

9.00 Departure from the hotel (with luggage – after check-out)

9.00 - 11.30 Transfer to Trzebieszów (160 km)

11.30 - 12.30 Grzybek Łosicki Cooperative – tour of the mushroom plantation in Trzebieszów



12.30 Departure from the plantation

12.30 - 13.00 Transfer from Trzebieszów to Kopce (25 km)

13.00 - 15.00 Grzybek Łosicki Cooperative – logistics centre in Kopce

15.00 Departure from Kopce

15.00 - 15.45 Transfer from Kopce to Siedlce (40 km)

15.45 - 17.15 Lunch at Villa Park Hotel

17.15 Departure from Siedlce

17.15 - 18.45 Transfer from Siedlce to Warsaw (90 km)

18.45 Check-in at the Hotel IBIS Stare Miasto

Free time







*Departure day

1 June (Friday)*

6.30 - 10.00 Breakfast at the hotel restaurant

Departure of the participants from Warsaw

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