Calendar of Events/Meetings (2000)
Priority List
| Transport & Communications |
| Trade & investment | |||
| No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Proposed Date |
1. | Second Seminar on Trade & Investment Information Networking in the ECO Region. | Antalya, Turkey. | October, 2000. |
2. | ITC Project Implementation: Buyers-Sellers Meeting or Product Selection Workshop. | To be determined | To be determined. |
3. | First Seminar on the Implementation of the ECO TTA | Tehran | 2000. |
4. | Training Course on the Turkish Customs Legislation | Ankara, Turkey | 3-8 April, 2000. |
5. | Experts Group Meeting on Mutual Payment Arrangement | Tehran | August, 2000. |
6. | Seminars: | ||
| Customs' Drugs Enforce-ment and Intelligence Management | Iran | 2-6 May, 2000 | |
| Customs Data Management | Iran | 16-20 May, 2000 | |
| Better Implementation of Harmonized System Nomenclature. | Iran | To be determined | |
| Implementing the WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation. | |||
| Implementing the WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation. | Iran | -do- |
| Energy, Mining & Environment | |||
| No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Proposed Date |
1. | ENERGY (OIL, GAS, PETRO- CHEMICAL POWER AND RELATED INDUSTRIES). Workshop on ECO/Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) Cooperation as per 2ND and 3rd Meeting’s Report. | Turkey | To be determined |
2. | Workshop on Energy Conservation and Efficiency and Ad-Hoc Committee Meeting of Experts to prepare the outline and methodology for energy conservation in the ECO Member Countries as per 1st MEDOG&P Report. | Turkey | May, 2000 |
| 3. | Joint ECO/OPEC Workshop on International Petroleum Market Analysis in the year 2000. (ASEAN may be invited to participate). | To be offered by one ECO MS. | To be determined by ECO-OPEC Sectts.
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| 4. | Training Workshop in follow up of the proceedings of the workshop on ECO Regional Cooperation in the field of Petroleum Refineries and Products, the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Natural Gas held in Mashhad on 13-14 November 1999. | Iran | To be offered by the host |
| 5. | Workshop on ECO Regional Power Trade Strategy with assistance of IDB, ADB, WB, etc., as per 3rd SETG report on Power. | To be offered by one ECO Member State. | To be offered by the host |
| 6. | 2nd Meeting of the Chief Executives of the ECO Countries National/Private Drilling Companies. | Pakistan (to be confirmed) | To be offered by the host |
| 7. | ENVIRONMENTWorkshop on ECO region’s harmonization of regulations and legislations on reduction/control of national/accidental land/sea disasters, etc., on the basis of promoting and encouraging investment in the region | To be offered by one ECO Member State. | -do- |
| 8. | Workshop on Waste Water Management and Treatment Technology.* | --- | --- |
| 9. | - Training Programme on Determination and Evaluation of Air Pollution for the technical staff of the ECO Member States. - Training Programme on Determination and Evaluation of Noise Level for the technical staff of the ECO Member States. - Training Programme on Determination and Evaluation of Water Quality for the technical staff of the ECO Member States. | Turkey | To be determined. |
* Turkey has proposed to host the Workshop on 30-31 March, 2000 at the East Mediterranean University, Magosa. However, since consensus could not be reached, the venue of this event will be decided later by CPR.
| Agriculture, Industry & Health | |||
| No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Proposed Date |
1. | AGRICULTURE Conference of Chairmen/Senior Executives of Agricultural Banks and Credit Institutions. | Iran. | 12-14 June, 2000. (To be reconfirmed by Iran) |
2. | Workshop on Food Security with FAO/ICARDA/IDB participation. | ECO Secretariat. | Oct. 2000. |
3. | Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | To be determined | Not yet finalized. |
4. | INDUSTRY Meeting of ECO-CEC and the relevant experts from the Member States to identify areas for cooperation. | Lahore, Pakistan. | 27-28 April, 2000. (Proposed by the Sectt. and to be confirmed by the host) |
5. | ECO/UNCTAD Training programme for the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties (with UNCTAD). | ECO Secretariat | The date to be finalized by UNCTAD & ECO Sectt. |
6. | Workshop on privatization in ECO Member States with the participation of Economic Development Institute (EDI) of World Bank. | Pakistan | To be determined. |
7. | Seminar on Technology Capacity Building in ECO Member States – UNIDO. | Islamabad, Pakistan. | Not yet finalized. |
8. | HEALTH Two week course of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Material Production and Utilization. | Ankara, Turkey. | Year 2000. (Dates to be confirmed by Turkey) |
| Economic Research & Statistics | |||
| No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Proposed Date |
1. | Workshop of the Leading Economic Research Institutes on the design and implementation of ECO Joint Economic Research Programme. | To be determined | June, 2000 |
2. | ECO-ESCAP subregional Workshop on Environmental Statistics. | To be determined | July, 2000 |
3. | Workshop on final arrange-ments and preparations for ECO Intra-regional Network (ECO-NET) among the Member States and ECO Secretariat. | Tehran, ECO Secretariat | October, 2000 |
| Project Research | ||
| No. | Title of Meeting | Venue & Date |
1. | Round Table between ECO Secretariat and ECO-CEC on the issues of preparation of pre—feasibility and feasibility studies of the ECO priority project. | This 3- day event may be arranged and held in September-October, 2000 at the ECO Secretariat (Tehran) or at the CEC Office in Lahore (Pakistan). |
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