FIV, Alm.del - 2012-13 - Bilag 163: Invitation fra det Finske parlament vedr. EPTA Council meeting and Arctic seminar in Lapland 22.-24.9.2013

ASSESSMENT (EPTA) COUNCIL MEETING and ARCTIC SEMINAR22.-24.9. 2013 inKittiläLapland, Finland

WELCOMETO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY TECHNOLOGY

NOTHING ORDINARY-The Arctic BoomYou need to see this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCm5630kE-M

Registration:https://www.lyyti.fi/ilmoittaudu/eptameeting_2425Venue: Levi Summit, Kittilä Laplandhttp://www.levisummit.fi/index.php/en

ProgrammeSunday 22.9.2013Arriving and Check-InThe Samiland Exhibition, part of UNESCO Observatory Cultural Village programmein the Hotel Levi Panorama/Summit (open every day)17.0018.3019.0021.00Get Together Event, Hotel Levi Panorama “Summit”Busses /walk up to “Tuikku” RestaurantWelcome Party in “Tuikku” Restaurant.Busses back to the hotel or/and the village

Monday 23.9.20139.00EPTA-Council meeting Levi “Summit”, Hotel Levi PanoramaChair: MP Päivi Lipponen, Committee for the FutureAgenda:1. Welcome and openingChair of the Committee for the Future Päivi Lipponen, Parliament of FinlandThe Big Jump of Lapland, Secretary general Seppo Tiitinen, Parliament of FinlandSami Parliament (tbc)2. Approval of the agenda and minutes EPTA Council 20123. New and “renew” EPTA members, associate members and observers4. What’s new in member countries?5. Evaluations in different member-countries6. EU-project PACITA7. EPTA-Journal, EPTA web-page etc8. Any other matters9. EPTA Presidency 2014

10. Closing of the meetingThe only remaining indigenous people of EU, the Sami.13.30 Busses to the Reindeer Farm14.00 Lunch and activities: Arctic presentations, stories of reindeers, fishing, walking and admiringground foliage, picking mushrooms, sauna etc17.30 Busses to the Hotel19.00 Busses to 20-years Jubileum Dinner of Committee for the Future, “Sami-Kammi” LappishRestaurant19.30 Dinner ; Exotic Lappish songs and “Singing Senators”21.30 Busses to the Village (where all kind of discussions, singing and dancing) and to the HotelNorthern Lights if possibleTuesday 24.9.2013Main hall09.00 Welcome to the Seminar, MP PäiviLipponen: Is the Arctic Boom a BlackSwan? Release of the new publicationof the Committee for the Future09.15 Arctic Boom, Arctic Center09.45 Arctic Marine Industries,ArctechHelsinki Shipyard Inc.10.15 Arctic Mining Industries, Agnico-EagleFinland Oy (Kittilä Gold Mine)10.45 Atmosphere/Terrestrial Infrastructureat Sodankylä, Finnish MeteorologicalInstitute11.15 Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory,University of OuluAll Together11.45 Lunch at the Main Hall12.45 Busses to the Airport and 13.35-15.05 Flight to HelsinkiSeminar Hotel:Hotel Levi Panorama (http://www.levipanorama.fi/2009/index.php/en)Prices: Standard single 81 €,,Standard twin 108 €, Superior single 95 €, Superior twin 122 €,Jr Suite 1-2 persons 155 €, Standard Suite 1-2 persons 127 €, Deluxe Suite 1-2 persons 255 €Flights: FinnairSunday 22.9.2013Monday 23.9.2013Helsinki- Kittilä 11.30 -12.5510.40-13.1016.25 – 17.55More Information:[email protected]See you all in Lapland!Tuesday 24.9.2013Kittilä–Helsinki 13.35–15.05Auditorio09.15 Arctic Design, University of Lapland09.45 Ice Laboratory, Aker Arctic10.15 Arctic Testing Environments,Wintertestcenter Oy10.45 "Russia's Future Arctic Strategy".TheArctic and Geopolitical Interests, MrAleksandr Sergunin, St.PetersburgState University (Russia)11.15 Radical Finnovations: MP VilleVähämäki Committee for the Futurewith experts Mr Osmo Kuusi, Mr.Risto Linturi and Mr. Toni AhlqvistRelease of the newt publication of theCommittee for the Future

Committee for the Future, Finnish Parliament

European Parliamentary TechnologyAssessmentObjectivesThe EPTA Partners advise parliaments on the possible social, economic and environmental impact of newsciences and technologies.The common aim is to provide impartial and high quality accounts and reports of developments in issuessuch as for example bioethics and biotechnology, public health, environment and energy, ICTs, and R&Dpolicy.Such work is seen as an aid to the democratic control of scientific and technological innovations, andwas pioneered in the 1970s by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the US Congress.EPTA aims to advance the establishment of technology assessment as an integral part of policyconsulting in parliamentary decision-making processes in Europe, and to strengthen the links betweenTA units in Europe.

OrganisationThe EPTA network was formally established in 1990 under the patronage of the President of theEuropean Parliament, Mr Enrique Baron Crespo. The network has a light structure, guided by the EPTACouncil and by meetings of the Directors of the EPTA partner organisations.The EPTA Council is the steering committee of the EPTA network, and consists of members of Parliamentor representatives of the advisory boards for the respective EPTA organisation. The council decides onorganisational matters such as co-operation within the network and the status of members andassociates.The presidency of EPTA moves each year. The tasks of the EPTA member organisation holding thepresidency are to coordinate the EPTA network activities and to host the annual EPTA Conference,Council Meeting and Directors' meeting.

MembersThe members of the EPTA network are European organisations, which carry out TA studies on behalf ofparliaments.The following criteria for full EPTA membership were accepted at the Council Meeting in Helsinki inOctober 2001:"Regular EPTA membership can be obtained by a unit that pursues TA activities and

Operates in Europe,Is devoted to TA or related activities,Serves the parliament,Has its own budget and secretariat,Has a competence regarding issues with a scientific and technological component,and

Submits a written membership application."

Europe is by EPTA regarded as the geographical Europe as defined by The Council of Europe. Associatemembership can be granted to salient TA units, which have a TA programme and resources to realise it,but do not fully live up to other criteria for full membership. Associates are involved in all EPTA activitiesbut are not represented in the EPTA council. Further, units interested in the work of EPTA can act asobservers.Parliamentary TA is institutionalised in different ways, ranging from permanent parliamentarycommittees for TA; separate TA units as part of the parliamentary administration; to independentinstitutions with a mandate to serve as a permanent consulting institution for the parliament.

EPTA projectsEPTA can decide to make 'common EPTA projects', in which EPTA members and associates can joinforces and make trans-European TA activities. EPTA projects are based upon the'Joint EPTA Project

Framework', which makes use of a bottom-up principle, according to which three or more memberscan initiate a project if it is open for active participation from other EPTA members. The project isdecided during a Directors' meeting or Council Meeting after being scrutinised by the boards of themembers. The outcome of an EPTA project is the sole responsibility of the participating members.

Member Organisations of the EPTA CouncilScientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA), European ParliamentTeknologirådet - Danish Board of Technology (DBT)Committee for the Future, Finnish Parliament - TulevaisuusvaliokuntaInstituut Samenlevingen technologische (IST) - Institute Society and Technology, FlemishParliament, BelgiumOffice Parlementaire d'evaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST) -Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options, French ParliamentBüro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB) - Office of TechnologyAssessment at the German ParliamentCommittee on Technology Assessment, Greek ParliamentComitato per la Valutazione delle Scelte Scientifiche e Tecnologiche (VAST) - Committee forScience and Technology Assessment, Italian ParliamentRathenau Institute, NetherlandsTeknologirådet - Norwegian Board of Technology (NBT)Zentrum für Technologiefolgen-Abschätzung - Centre for Technology Assessment at the SwissScience and Technology Council (TA-Swiss)Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), UKCAPCIT (Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia) - The Advisory Board of theParliament of Catalonia for Science and TechnologyThe Parliamentary evaluation and research unit, Swedish Parliament

Associate membersSub-Committee on Science and Ethics of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,StrassbourgInstitut für Technikfolgenabschätzung (ITA), AustriaBelgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technological and Cultural Affairs (OSTC), BelgiumThe Bureau of Research (BAS), Polish ParliamentU.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), USA