The Conference dedicated to the Building a Black Sea Basin Network of Traditional Products and the final International Conference of the project “Local Development and Cross-Border Cooperation in the Area of Agricultural Products and Traditional Food (LOC FOOD)” took place on December 8-9, 2022, in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, funded with the support of the Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2014-2020.
The Conference was attended by representatives from Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and Romania. From the Republic of Moldova, the members of the PA “Association of Tourism Development in Moldova” (ADTM) and a group of representatives of state institutions, educational institutions, representative associations and entrepreneurs participated, including we were honored by the support of the promotion of local products from the Republic of Moldova, on the part of the Ambassador of Moldova in Greece, Andrei Popov.
These events came to complete the activities of the LOC FOOD project, laying the foundations of an International Network of local producers for the further promotion of both traditional products and food and local producers, who want to develop the sector of traditional products in the Black Sea Basin region (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine), and also to provide in this way the sustainability of the results obtained following the implementation of the project.
At the same time, the partners presented the results obtained in the process of identification and registration of local products from Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova.
Marina Miron, the ADTM representative, mentioned that as a result of an intense activity, a list of 300 traditional local dishes, specific to certain areas of the Republic of Moldova and prepared according to original recipes, were identified. Five of these dishes are in the process of being registered, with AGEPI, as traditional specialties guaranteed: Mushroom Borscht, Boiled Meat of Suvai, Fish Stew, Ghitman and Bride Pie.
At the event, the State Agency on Intellectual Property was represented by Victoria Pulbere, deputy head of the Trademarks and Industrial Design Department, who presented the Map of Traditional Moldovan Products http://harta-ig.agepi.gov.md/, which includes the Map of Potential GIs and the Map of Protected GIs, which is to be completed with new Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG).
