ZAGREB, April 16, 2018 – The Croatia-Ukraine Commission on Economic Cooperation held its first meeting in Zagreb on Monday, under the co-chairmanship of the Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts, Martina Dalić, and Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze.
The two sides exchanged information on prospects for bilateral economic cooperation, especially in areas such as industry, entrepreneurship and crafts, energy, transport, labour, agriculture, education, science and technology, youth and sport, tourism, metrology, cooperation between the two chambers of commerce, and transfer of knowledge, the Ministry of Economy said in a statement.
Dalić and Klympush-Tsintsadze signed the protocol of the Commission meeting. Also signed were a memorandum of understanding between the Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy and the Ukrainian State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving on cooperation in energy efficiency, renewable energy and alternative fuels, and a cooperation agreement between the Croatian Employment Service and the Ukrainian State Employment Service.
The Croatian delegation included representatives of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy, the Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, the Ministry of Labour and Pension System, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Science and Education, the Ministry of Tourism, the Central State Office for Sports, the Financial Agency, the State Office for Metrology, the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, and energy-sector companies.
