The excellent bilateral relations between the two countries are extended in-depth time. Since 1980 there has been signed a bilateral Agreement for the improvement of their economic, industrial and technical collaboration (Athens, 24.09.1980), on the basis of which they were realised nine Mixed Interministerial Committees in Athens and Budapest alternately, with no concrete engagement in the sector of agriculture.

In June 2001, the two homologous Ministries initialized a draft Agreement for the economic, scientific and technical collaboration in agricultural sector. However, the final signature of the said Agreement was not realised, taking into account that Hungary was fully integrated as a member of the European Union in 2004 and since then, the collaboration of the two Ministries develops in the frame of Community procedures and consultations.

In July 2003, two representatives of the Hungarian Ministry realised a visit in Athens and they received information by the competent services on the structure and the operation of Payments Organisation (OPEKEPE).

In May 2007, a large Hungarian delegation consisting of members of the Administration and the Hungarian organization of "Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation" paid a visit to our Ministry. The members of the delegation had the occasion to be fully informed and discuss with the Ministry's experts about the current situation of the Greek agriculture and the Greek experiences out of the Greek integration process, as well as CAP and rural development issues of common interest.

At Community level, the two homologous Ministries have a common stance in a range of important issues of common interest, like the level and the measures of support in agricultural production, their negative stance on the authorisation and placing on the European markets of products from genetically modified organisms, etc.