The Regional Rural Development Standing

Working Group (SWG) in SEE

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SWG – organizational structure Mr. Boban Ilic,

SWG Secretary General

Organizational structure

SWG Assembly

SWG Secretariat

Ministers of Agriculture from SWG

member countries

SWG Secretary General

Organizational structure

SWG Assembly

2 delegates from each SWG member

institution

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Member Institutions

-Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection, Albania

-Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, -Bosnia and Herzegovina -Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina -Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina -Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Bulgaria -Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Macedonia -Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Montenegro -Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management, Serbia -Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Kosovo* Kosovo* "This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence."

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Observer Institutions

-Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria -Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Germany -Ministry of Rural Development, Hungary -Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, Italy -Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Slovenia

- Ministry of Agriculture, Croatia - Provincial Secretariat of Agriculture Water Management and Forestry, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia

Organizational structure SWG Head Office/ Secretariat- Departments

SWG Secretary General

Project Department

SWG Out-Posted operations / Project Management Units

Financial Department

Administrative Department

SWG Head of Operations

• Balkan Rural Development Network

• South-East Organic Network

• Initiative for Balkan Advisory Services Network

Stakeholder rural club

Constitutional

• SWG Statute

• Agreement on the status and activities of SWG in the

Republic of Macedonia

Operational

• SWG Strategy for 2011-2015

• SWG Manual

Major documents

www.seerural.org

www.seerural.org is the official web site of the

Regional Rural Development Standing Working

Group.

www.seerural.org is an internet platform

promoting cooperation for sustainable rural

development

in South-East Europe.