Conference at the 2nd OLIVE OIL AND OLIVE FESTIVAL

Conference at the 2nd OLIVE OIL AND OLIVE FESTIVAL

9th - 11th May 2008
Peace and Friendship Stadium, Faliro

The European Organisation for Strategic Planning, in the framework of the 2nd Olive Oil and Olive Festival, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, the Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning & Public Works (YPEXODE), the Prefecture of Piraeus, the National Inter-professional Organisation of Olive Oil and Olive (EDOEE), the Pan-Hellenic Association of Table Olive Processors, Packers & Exporters (PEMETE), the Greek Association of Industries and Processors of Olive Oil (SEVITEL), the Greek Association of Craft Industries for Packed Olive Oil (ESVITE), the Agricultural University of Athens and the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Thessaloniki, from 9th to 11th May, at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, a conference with subject the Olive and the Olive Oil. At the Conference, there were analytical discussions about issues regarding the cultivation of olive, the production and also the packing of olive oil, as well as the promotion of this significant Greek product in the competitive European and World market.

Program:
Friday 9th May 2008
11.30-12.00 Participants' Arrival
12.00-12.30 Greetings

Coordinators:
- Andreas Varouchakis, former Mayor of Kissamos, Member of EOSP
- Georgios Stathis, President of the 3rd Municipal Partition of Athens
- Nikos Trikalitis, Economist, Member of EOSP
- Sotiris Kareas, Architect, Member of EOSP
- Spyros Kachrimanis, President of the Greek Centre of Agricultural Entrepreneurship

Greetings:
- Representative of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
- Georgios Stathis, Representative EOSP, President of the 3rd Municipal Partition of Athens
- Apostolos Kyritsakis, Professor A' TEI of Thessaloniki, President of the Scientific Committee
- Moschos Polysiou, Vice-Rector of the Agricultural University of Athens
- Nelos Georgoudis, President of the Pan-Hellenic Association of Table Olive Processors, Packers & Exporters (PEMETE)
- Representative of the National Inter-professional Organisation of Olive Oil and Olive (EDOEE)
- Georgios Ikonomou, Director of Greek Association of Industries and Processors of Olive Oil (SEVITEL)
- Vasilis Kranias, President of ESVITE, Greek Association of Craft Industries for Packed Olive Oil

12.30 Opening of Conference's Proceedings

A' MODULE "Primary production and cultivation"
12.30-12.45 Subject: "Systems of condensed planting and mechanical harvesting"
Introducer: Stavros Vemmos, Alternate Professor, Laboratory of Arboriculture, Agricultural University of Athens

12.45-13.00 Subject: "Irrigation of Olive tree Needs and water quality"
Introducers: Dr. Konstantinos Chartzoulakis, Researcher A Institute of Olive Tree and Subtropical Plants of Chania Ioannis Kasapakis, Agronomist M.Sc., Institute of Olive Tree and Subtropical Plants of Chania

13.00-13.15 Subject: "Integrated cultivation of olive tree"
Introducer: Giorgos Kokkinos, Head of the Producers' Group "NILEAS"

13.15-13.30 Subject: "Biological cultivation of olive tree"
Introducer: Kostas Aggelopoulos, Assistant Professor of the University of Patras

B' MODULE "Packing of Olive Oil"
13.30-13.45 Subject: "Relation of Packing and Marketing"
Introducer: Giorgos Dimitriadis, Director Owner of BIOLEA

13.45-14.00 Subject: "Packing Materials"
Introducer: Giorgos Iliadis, General Director of Peza Union

14.00-14.15 Subject: "The need for the education of the consumer about the information written on the label of the virgin olive oils"
Introducer: Maria Tsimidou, Alternate Professor of Food Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

14.15-14.30 Subject: "Packing and consumer" Introducer: Georgia Katsikarou, Responsible of the Marketing Department, GAEA

C' MODULE "Quality: From the field to the table"
14.30-14.45 Subject: "Factors that affect the quality of the olive oil in the whole production cycle"
Introducer: Apostolos Kyritsakis, Professor, Director of the Food Technology and Nutrition Department, A-TEI of Thessaloniki

14.45-15.00 Subject: "Certification Systems"
Introducer: Panagiotis Kaminaris, General Director of Organization for Certification & Inspection of Agricultural Products - Agrocert

15.00-15.15 Subject: "Traceability as a factor of quality, safety and information of the consumer"
Introducer: Fotis Sousalis,Agronomist - Food Scientist .Sc., Terra Creta

15.15-15.30 Subject: "Quality and nutritional value of the olive oil"
Introducer: Antonia Trichopoulou, Professor, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Athens

15.30-15.45 Subject: "Organoleptic evaluation of the virgin olive oil"
Introducer: Maria Lazaraki, Chemist, Consumer's General Secretariat, Ministry of Development

15.45-16.00 Subject: "New techniques for the control and detection of the adulteration of olive oil"
Introducer: Efi Christopoulou, Chemist, Consumer's General Secretariat, Ministry of Development

D' MODULE "Trade - Distribution - Marketing of Olive Oil"
16.00-16.15 Subject: "The export policy of Greece for the promotion of Olive Oil"
Introducer: Anastasia Garifallou, General Director, Promotion of Foreign Export Organisation (OPE)

16.15-16.30 Subject: "Structures of collecting and trading olive oil"
Introducer: Vasilios Zabounis, Agro-economist, AXION AGROTIKI

16.30-16.45 Subject: "Unfair competition - Adulteration"
Introducer: Manolis Chlouverakis, Director of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Sitia

16.45-17.00 Subject: "Hellenic Russian trading relations and approach of the russian market for the Greek Olive Oil enterprises"
Introducer: Elena Kontratova, General Director of the Hellenic-Russian Chamber of Commerce

17.00-17.15 Subject: "The role of quality in the promotion of the olive oil of Messinia"
Introducer: Efstathios Anastasopoulos, Chemist, PhD Candidate, Harokopio University, Vice-prefect of Messinia

19.00 Inauguration of Exhibition
Coordinators:
- Manousos Manousakis, Stage Director, President of the Organising Committee of the 2nd Festival of Olive Oil and Olive
- Stavros Markatos, Vice-prefect for Primary Production, Prefecture of Piraeus , Member of the Organising Committee of the 2nd Festival of Olive Oil and Olive
- Apostolos Kyritsakis, President of the Organizing Committee of the Conference for Olive Oil and Olive, Director of the Food Technology and Nutrition Department, A-TEI of Thessaloniki
- Giorgos Anastopoulos, General Secretary EOSP
- Nia Koborozou, President of the Union of Regional Press

Greetings:
- Giannis Michas, Prefect of Piraeus
- Stavros Arnaoutakis, Member of European Parliament
- Manousos Manousakis, Director, President of the Organising Committee of the 2nd Festival of Olive Oil and Olive, Member of EOSP
- Awarding Lesvos, Honoured Region of the 2nd Festival of Olive Oil and Olive 2008
- Awarding the Celebration of Olive Oil and Olive of Sellasia, Lakonia Region

Saturday 10th May 2008

09.30-10.00 Participants' Arrival

Coordinators:
- Nikos Kokkas, Mechanical Engineer
- Grigoris Panonidis, Agronomist
- Andreas Varouchakis, former Mayor of Kissamos, Member of EOSP
- Ioannis Theodorakopoulos, Vice-president of 3rd Municipal Partition of Athens

10.00- 10.15 Greeting
Stavros Markatos, Vice-prefect of Primary Production, Prefecture of Piraeus, Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Festival of Olive Oil and Olive

E' MODULE "Olive pressers"
10.15-10.30 Subject: "Seed-oil presses"
Introducer: : Manolis Giannoulis, President of the Association of Greek Seed-oil pressers

10.30-10.45 Subject: "Investment Incentives Law"
Introducer: Grigoris Panonidis, Agronomist

10.45-11.00 Subject: "Operation and problems of the Greek Olive presses"
Introducer: Antonis Korakakis, President of the Pan-Messinian Association of Olive pressers

11.00-11.15 Subject: "Tax System for the olive presses"
Introducer: Panagiotis Karagiannis, IT Director of EDESMA S.A., Development Director, PPA Development

11.15-11.30 Subject: "New technologies in the modernisation of the oil presses"
Introducer: Antonis Antonopoulos, Chemist.Sc., Responsible of the Olive Department, BIODYNAMICS S.A.

F' MODULE "The Olive and Olive Oil production sector in the framework of the Agricultural Policy of the European Union"
12.00 12.15 Subject: "The development of the Countryside, for the period 2007 - 2013"
Introducer: Evaggelos Divaris, Economist, Alternate Head of the Directorate of Agricultural and Rural Development of the European Commission

12.15-12.30 Subject: "The olive oil and the table olive in the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)"
Introducer: Panagiotis Barzoukas, Economist, Supervisor of the Olive Oil Department of the European Commission

12.30-12.45 Subject: "The 27 years of Greece in the Common Agricultural Policy"
Introducer: Andreas Korakas, Economist, former Director of the European Commission and General Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture

12.45-13.00 Subject: "The World developments in the Olive Product Markets and Olive Industry structures"
Introducer: Mimis Christodoulou, Agronomist - Jurist, Director of Economic Studies and Assessments of the International Olive Oil Council

G' MODULE "Table Olive"
13.00-13.15 Subject: "New ways of packing the table olive"
Introducer: Stathis Panagou, Agronomist, Lecturer of the Agricultural University of Athens, Scientific Collaborator of National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF)

13.15-13.30 Subject: "Concerns regarding the application of the traceability of table olives of the country"
Introducer:: Georgios Doutsias, Dr. Agronomist Food Technologist, former General Director of Elaiourgiki

13.30-13.45 Subject: "Greek table olive: National Treasure...with expiry date? "
Introducer: Charis Siouras, Member of the Board of Directors of the Pan-Hellenic Association of Table Olive Processors, Packers & Exporters

13.45-14.00 Subject: "Alterations of Olive Paste and Microbiological Deteriorations"
Introducer: Despina Keskini, Food Technologist, A-TEI of Thessaloniki

Sunday 11th May 2008
H' MODULE "Management of the Liquid Waste of the Olive Presses"

09.30-10.00 Participants' Arrival

- Nikos Kokkas, Mechanical Engineer
- Efstathios Papachristopoulos, Chemical Engineer, Member of EOSP
- Evaggelos Christofilakis, Economist, former Mayor of Ano Liosia, Member of the Board of Directors of Local Union of Municipalities & Communities of Attica Region

10.00-10.30 Greeting - Introduction
Introducer: Evaggelos Baltas, General Secretary of YPEXODE
Greeting: Efstathios Papachristopoulos, Chemical Engineer, Member of EOSP

10.30-10.45 Subject: "Integrated Waste Management for the oil presses aiming the recovery of products with high added value"
Introducer: Alexios - Leandros Skaltsounis, Professor of the National University of Athens, Division of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products

10.45-11.00 Subject: "Electrolytic waste management of the oil presses"
Introducer: Nikolaos Kalogerakis, Professor of the Technical University of Crete, Department of Environmental Engineers, Member of the Scientific Committee of EOSP

11.00-11.20 Subject: "Integrated management of the by-products of oil presses"
Introducers: Kostas Aggelopoulos, Assistant Professor of the University of Patras - Athina Theodorakopoulou, Researcher of the University of Patras