CONFERENCE
OF DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS

 

CDCC

 

from 18 to 19 march 2007

in Berlin

 

 

 

DRAFT PROGRAMME (as at: 1. march 2007)

 

 

 

Sunday, 18 March 2007

 

 

14.00 - 15.30 hrs                  Hotel Marriott

                                               Opportunity for conference participants to register

 

15.30 hrs                               Proceed to the Reichstag Building, East Entrance

                                               Opportunity for conference participants to register

 

16.00 - 17.30 hrs                  Visit to the plenary chamber and guided tour of the Reichstag Building (in German, English and French)

                                               – history, architecture, art –

 

17.30 hrs                               Opening of the conference

 

Welcome by Gerda Hasselfeldt, Vice-President of the German Bundestag and

Thilo Hoppe, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag

 

3rd floor of the Reichstag Building (parliamentary groups' level)

 

Thereafter                              Reception

 

                                               with light meal and music

                                               Opportunity to visit the dome of the Reichstag Building

 

3rd floor of the Reichstag Building (parliamentary groups' level)

 

21.30 hrs                               Collection and transport to the Hotel Marriott


Monday, 19 March 2007

 

 

 

8.30 hrs                                 Collection and transport to the German Bundestag
(Paul Löbe Building)

                                               Opportunity for conference participants to register

 

                                               Please take your luggage with you!

 

 

9.00 - 9.40 hrs                      Development policy in Parliament

 

                                               - for whom?

                                               - with what values?

                                               - with what means?

 

                                               Statements by:

Thilo Hoppe, Chairman of the Bundestag’s Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development

Malcolm Bruce, Chairman of the development and cooperation committee in the British House of Commons

Solomon Passy, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of Bulgaria

 

- Discussion-

 

                                               Paul Löbe Building 4900 (Europasaal)

 

 

9.40 - 10.00 hrs                    Coffee break

 

10.00 - 11.00 hrs                  Exchange of experiences in groups

Group 1, moderated by Thilo Hoppe

(Paul Löbe Building 4900)

Group 2, moderated by Sibylle Pfeiffer, Vice-Chairperson of the Bundestag’s Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development (Paul Löbe Building E800)

Group 3, moderated by Ute Koczy development-policy spokesperson for the green party (Bündnis 90/die Grünen) in the Bundestag (Paul Löbe Building 2700), in English language

                                               Group 4, staff members of the secretariats of the committees and chairpersons, moderated by Thomas Pflüger, head of secretariat of the committee (Paul Löbe Building 4800), in English language

 

11.15 - 11.40 hrs                  Groups report back in the Europasaal


11.40 - 12.00 hrs                  At the intersection between trade, the economy and

development: the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the ACP states (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific)

                                               - Part 1 -

 

                                               Jürgen Wiemann,

                                               German Development Institute

-  Introduction  -

 

                                               Paul Löbe Building 4900 (Europasaal)

 

 

Thereafter                              Walk to the Reichstag Building

 

 

12.15 - 13.30 hrs                  Lunch

                                               Members’ restaurant

 

                                               Reichstag Building

 

13.45 hrs                               Photo

 

Thereafter                              Walk to the Paul Löbe Building

 

14.00 - 15.15 hrs                  At the intersection between trade, the economy and
development: the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the ACP states (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific)

                                      - Part 2-

 

 

                                               Statements by:

                                               Karl-Friedrich Falkenberg, Vice- General Director, European Commission

                                               S. E. Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, Ambassador of Burkina Faso in Brussels

                                               Bertram Zagema, representative of Oxfam Novib, Den Haag

 

                                               - Discussion-

 

                                               Paul Löbe Building 4900 (Europasaal)

 

 

15.15 - 15.30 hrs                  Coffee break

 

 

 

15.30 - 17.00 hrs                  Development-policy priorities of the German
EU Council Presidency

 

                                               Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development

 

- Discussion-

 

                                               Paul Löbe Building 4900 (Europasaal)

 

 

17.00 hrs                               End of the conference