Retsudvalget 2014-15 (1. samling)
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Policy Department C - Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
for the Committee on Legal Affairs
CIVIL LAW AND JUSTICE FORUM
Workshop with national Parliaments
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"Cross-border activities in the EU - Making life easier for citizens"
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Thursday, 26 February 2015
09:30-12:30 and 14:30-18:30
Room Altiero Spinelli 5 G 2, European Parliament, Brussels
09.00 - 09.30
Registration of participants
Altiero Spinelli building entrance (ASP)
09:30 - 10:00
OPENING
09:30 - 09:40
Welcome and opening remarks: What is it all about?
Pavel Svoboda, Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs
09:40 - 09:50
Using EU private international law to facilitate the free movement of
citizens
Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, Vice-President in charge of relations with national
Parliaments
09:50 - 10:00
The Latvian Council Presidency -agenda for the area of civil law
Inese Libina-Egnere, Vice-speaker of the Saeima and Vice-chair of the Legal
affairs committee
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With the support of the Directorate for relations with National Parliaments - Legislative Dialogue Unit
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10:00 - 12:30
SESSION I
LESS PAPER WORK FOR MOBILE CITIZENS
10:00 - 10:10
Opening remarks: Towards a European Code on Private International
Law?
Prof. Giesela Rühl, Jena University
Prof. Jan von Hein, Freiburg University
10:10 - 10:30
Promoting the free movement of citizens and businesses by simplifying the
acceptance of certain public documents in the EU and beyond
(Proposal for Regulation, COM(2013) 228)
Eve Potter, Notary, Estonia
[Dr.
Walter Pintens, Secretary General of the International Commission on Civil
Status, Professor at Leuven University, OR Peter M. Beaton, Expert/consultant
in European Civil and Private International Law, The Hague, OR Dr Sophie
Gaudemet, Paris-Sud University, Jean Monnet Faculty]
10:30 - 11:00
Debate,
opened by Mady Delvaux, MEP, rapporteur for the public documents
proposal
Coffee break
Towards European Model Contracts for Succession and Family Law?
Prof. Christiane Wendehorst, Vienna University
11:25 - 11.45
EU Regulation 650/2012 on successions and on the creation of a European
Certificate of Succession
Kurt Lechner, Notary Chamber of Palatinate, Germany
Prof. Patrick Wautelet,
Liège University, Law School (tbc)
11: 45 - 12:30
Debate
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:25
14:30 - 16:30
SESSION II
CROSS BORDER FAMILIES AND FAMILIES CROSSING-BORDERS
14:30 - 14:40
Opening remarks
Mairead McGuinness, Vice-President, European Parliament Mediator for
parental child abduction,
14:40 - 14:50
Presentation of study: "Cross-border parental child abduction"
Dr Ilaria Pretelli, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
14:50 - 15:20
The Brussels IIa Regulation: towards a review?
European Commission N.N.: presentation of the outcome of the public
consultation on Brussels IIa
Hans van Loon, The Hague, Member of
Institut de Droit International,
Former Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
15:20 - 15:50
Debate
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15:50 - 16:00
Name Law - is there a need to legislate?
Prof. Paul Lagarde, Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
16:00 - 16:30
Debate
16:30 - 18:30
SESSION III
BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS' CONCERNS
16:30 - 16:40
Opening remarks on private international law as a regulatory tool for
global governance
Dr Harm Schepel, Professor of Economic Law, Brussels School of International
Studies, University of Kent at Brussels
16:40 - 16:50
The European Small Claims Procedure and the new Commission proposal
Dr Pablo Cortés, University of Leicester
16:50 - 17:20
Debate,
opened by Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, MEP, rapporteur for the
review of the Small Claims regulation
17:20 - 17:30
Mediation as Alternative Dispute Resolution (the functioning of Directive
2008/52/EC on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial
matters)
Prof. Giuseppe De Palo ADR Center Srl
17:30 - 17:40
The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and the recast
of the Brussels I Regulation
Dr. Gottfried Musger, judge at the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH)
17:40 - 18:20
18:20 - 18:30
Debate
Conclusions
Pavel Svoboda, Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs
18:30
End of the Workshop