Minister Iztok Jarc

e-mail: minister(at)gov.si

Iztok Jarc was born in Novo mesto on 21 August 1963. He studied at the Faculty of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism at the University of Ljubljana. He graduated in 1987, receiving a degree in international relations.

From 1989 to 1993 he was employed by the Committee of International Cooperation of the RS (which later became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), after which he moved to the European Commission (Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General – SME Policy).

From 1993 until 1996 he officiated at the then Ministry for Economic Relations and Development as a negotiator for agreements on the establishment of a free-trade area with the countries of the former Yugoslavia, the CEFTA and EFTA countries.

He was also a member of the negotiation delegation for the Association Agreement with the EU and for Slovenia's admission to the World Trade Organization.

In 1996 he went to Brussels to work as an economic advisor with the Slovenian Mission to the European Union. He was there until 2000, at which time he transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, where he worked as the head of the Division for European Integration and Economic Relations. In the same year the Government of the RS named him a member of the Core Negotiating Team for the Accession of the RS to the EU. In 2001 he was named State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food; he held this position until 2004, at which time he became Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the RS to Israel.

Iztok Jarc was appointed as the minister for agriculture, forestry and food on 6 March 2007.

Minister is fluent in English, German, French, Croatian and Russian.

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

SECRETARIAT

Adrijana Frelih

phone: +386 1 478 9102

fax: +386 1 478 9013

e-mail: a.frelih(at)gov.si

State Secretary Branka Tome

e-mail: branka.tome(at)gov.si

Branka Tome was born on 3 September 1969 in Ljubljana. In 1994, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. In 1994 and 1995, she continued her post-graduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and received her master's degree in European Economic Studies. In 1996, she worked as an intern at the European Commission in Brussels.

Since the beginning of her career, she has performed tasks relating to the activities of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. From 1995 to 1998, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on devising the Pre-accession Strategy and Association Agreement, and monitored the EU structural policy and policies on agriculture, environment, and consumer protection.

In 1998, she began working for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. Between March of the same year and August 2003, she was employed at the Mission of the Republic of Slovenia to the EU (now Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the EU), where she was responsible for agriculture, fisheries, and consumer protection.

Between September 2003 and April 2007, when she was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, she worked at the Directorate General of the European Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development on rural development programmes.

Branka Tome is fluent in English, French, German and Croatian.

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

SECRETARIAT

Dominika Vesel

phone: +386 1 478 9103

fax: +386 1 478 9013

e-mail: dominika.vesel(at)gov.si