Joint Partnership Project CEFTA - DIHK
AGENDA
Regional conference
PROGRESSIVE AND EFFECTIVE OPENING OF THE CEFTA PUBLIC
PROCUREMENT MARKET
17 February 2015
Holiday Inn Hotel, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Time Subject
9.30 - 10.00h Registration of participants
Moderator Biljana Peeva Gjurikj, Director of Directorate of
Branch Associations, Economic Chamber of Macedonia and CEFTA
Coordinator
10.00 11.15h Welcome address and introduction
Welcome speech and introduction to the Conference - Mr. Branko
Azeski, President of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia
Importance of the efficient implementation of the public
procurement system in the Region, H.E. Dr. Christine D. Althauser,
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of
Macedonia
The Republic of Macedonias public procurement system, Mr.
Aleksandar Argirovski, Director of the Public Procurement Bureau of
RM
The public procurement system of the Federal Republic of
Germany, DIHK representative
11.15 -11.30h Coffee break
Statements for the media
Time Subject
11.30 13.00h Legal frameworks for public procurements and
effectiveness of
existing systems in CEFTA countries
Implementation of public procurement processes in practice:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Moldova and
Kosovo - representatives of Chambers
The experience of foreign investors in public procurement
procedures in the Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Juan Pedro Jimenez
Navarro, President of the Foreign Investors Council
Legal solutions and practices on equal treatment and
non-discrimination of entities participating in public procurements
- Mr. Aleksandar Argirovski, Director of the Public Procurement
Bureau of RM
13.00 13.30h Lunch
13.30 15.30h Legal and institutional framework for public
procurement
Protecting the rights of economic operators in an appeals
procedures - Mrs. Maja Malahova, President of the State Commission
for Public Procurements Appeals
EU directives on public procurements - representative of the
Delegation of the EU in Skopje
Towards efficient mechanisms for public procurements in the
Region - Ms. Sabina Fakic, Centre for Civil Communications
15.30 16.00h Discussion and conclusions
