Draft programme

1. Workshop: Linking Fair Trade producers to SMEs: existing initiatives and challenges 16:30 Opening by MEP Bernd Lange

16:40 The producers’ perspective: a case study from Uganda, Jane Katahwire Mbabazi, Vice Chair of the Ankole Coffee Producers Cooperative Limited – ACPCU

16.50 The SMEs’ perpective: a case study from Italian SMEs sourcing from Fair Trade, Eleonora Dal Zotto, General Manager at Equo Garantito

17.05 A case study from Brazil, Emily Rees, Head of EU Affairs at the Brazilian trade and investment promotion agency

17.15 A case study from the Netherlands, Eva Smulders, CSR Manager at the Dutch Centre for the Promotion of Imports

2. Panel Discussion moderated by Dr. Sanoussi Bilal, Head of the Economic

Transformation and Trade Programme at ECDPM: How can the EU and EU MS better support the matchmaking between Fair Trade producers and EU SMEs?

• Ms Jolana MUNGENGOVÁ, Cabinet of Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Trade How can the sustainable development chapters and the SMEs’ provisions in free trade agreementd facilitate the matchmaking between Fair Tarde producers and SMES? How can we create synergies between trade agreements and devolopment cooperation funds?

• DG DEVCO (speaker tbc) In view of the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework, how can development cooperation funds and instrumentes pro-actively support an enabling environment for Fair Trade?

• Linda Mc Avan, Chair of the European Parliament DEVE Committee How can the European Consensus on Development and the 2030 Agenda boost an EU enabling policy environment for Fair Trade?

• Sergi Corbalán, Executive Director of the Fair Trade Advocacy Office What support do Fair Trade producers need from the EU and the Member States?

• Claudio Cappellini, CNA (Member of UEAPME) What support do SMEs need from the EU and the Member States?

18:10 Debate with the audience 18:20 Concluding remarks by MEP Dita Charanzova

3. Fair Trade cocktail (from 18.30)