The Tisza River Development Program
Third Working Group Meeting

January 20. 2007 Hungary Budapest, Best Western Lido Hotel

Minutes of meeting

• Signing of the foundation papers for the 5 offices in Serbia will be arranged in Backi Petrovac on the 15 of February 2007.
• Signing of the foundation papers for the 5 offices in Ukraine will be arranged in Kiev on the 17 of February 2007.
• Signing of the foundation papers for the 5 offices in Slovakia will be arranged in Kosice on the 19 of February 2007.
• Signing of the foundation papers for the 15 offices in Hungary will be arranged in Budapest on the 22 of February 2007.
• Signing of the foundation papers for the 18 offices in Romania will be arranged in Cluj Napoca in the middle of March 2007.
• The participants agreed that the attached "Tisza River Development Program paper" is to be approved by experts invited from all EU member states plus experts from:
  Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Croatia, Serbia, Paraguay, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Switzerland and U.S.A.
  This will be arranged in Brussels as a one-day presentation and a two days workshop in April from the 23. to the 25. The title of the arrangement will be "IHLET Tisza River Development Program - local to global workshop"
• Signing of the IHLET charter will be arranged in Cluj Napoca on the first of June 2007.

Provisional Agenda

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Opening by Bela Jarolics, Director, IHLET

10:10 AM - 1:00 PM

Project status review and working group discussions moderated by Bela Jarolics:

• Review project status summary overall and by country.
• Review of the work plans for the 48 network offices in the five countries.
• Review next steps by the country representatives for the upcoming three months, leading to the signing of the Charta.
• Discussion about the signing of the Charta, logistics and other operations aspects.
• Review other pending matters.

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Conclusions and closing remarks by Bela Jarolics.