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34th Session Asser Institute Colloquium on
European law: “The EU Constitution: The Best Way
Forward?” An event on the calendar of the Dutch
presidency 13, 14, 15 and 16 October 2004
Venue: Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel,
The Hague, the Netherlands
THE EU CONSTITUTION:THE BEST WAY
FORWARD?R
egistration form
The Conference is preceded by the Final Conferenceof the Matra ‘Multi-Country’ project
‘The Hopes and Fears of New Member States and(pre)Candidate Countries’Views on the European Constitution
Wednesday 13 October 2004, 13.00 - 18.00 hrs.Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel
Program
Ω Plenary Opening Speech by Bert van Geel (Director Matra,Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague)
Ω Welcome Address by Alfred E. Kellermann (Project Director)Ω Parallel Sessions chaired by Ayse Saadet Arikan
(Director General, Ministry of Justice, Ankara, Turkey) andJaap W. de Zwaan (Vice President T.M.C. Asser Instituut,Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Ω Reporters: Jenö Czuczai (Hungary); Anneli Albi (Estonia);Kemal Baslar and Erdogan Ishakoglu (Turkey), Primoz Vehar,Marko Starman and Miha Pogacnik (Slovenia); EvgeniTanchev and Jenia Peteva (Bulgaria); Victor Duculescu(Romania); Dusko Lopandic and Slobodan Samardzic(Serbia and Montengro); Sinisa Rodin and Tamara Capeta(Croatia); Anita Usacka (Latvia); Vilenas Vadapalas(Lithuania); Nicholas Emiliou (Cyprus); Peter X. Xuereb(Malta); Jiri Zemanek (Czech Republic); Vlasta Kunova(Slovak Republic) and Stanislav Biernat (Poland)
Ω Special reporter: Steven Blockmans (T.M.C. Asser Instituut)
Participants to the 34th Session of the Asser InstituteColloquium on European Law can attend this gathering free ofcharge on a first come first serve basis. For further information,please contact Ms. Lyske de Vries at the Conference Secretariat,e-mail: [email protected] phone: +31 (0)70 342 0310
This 34th Session of the Asser Institute Colloquium on European Lawis sponsored by:Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The HagueNetherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations,The HagueNetherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, The HagueThe Municipality of The HagueThe European Parliament, The HagueStichting Levi Lassen, The HagueFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Amsterdam Barents & Krans, The HagueHouthoff Buruma, AmsterdamM.O.A.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, The Hagueand
The Organization Committeeprovisionally booked a limited number ofrooms in The Hague. Please contactthese hotels directly.
Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel*****Gevers Deynootplein 30
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Single room € 185 .00
Double room € 205 .00
City tax € 4 .53
Breakfast included
Carlton Ambassador Hotel****Sophialaan 2
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Single room € 165 .00
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Hotel reservation
Preceded by the Final conference of the Matra Multi Country Project ‘The
hopes and fears of new member states and (pre)candidate countries’
views on the EU Constitution
The participation of Dutch lawyers in the 34th Session of the Asser
Colloquium on European Law will be awarded with a maximum of 14
points by the Dutch Bar Association (Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten)
34th SESSION ASSERINSTITUTE COLLOQUIUMON EUROPEAN LAW 13 - 16 October 2004Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel, The Hague, the Netherlands
T.M.C. Asser Instituut (est. 1965), a renowned
interuniversity centre in the fields of
international and European law, organized the
first sessions of its Colloquium on European Law
in 1972. Since then, conferences on European
law have been held annually and quickly gained
the reputation of being a major event in the
European Union law calendar.
THE EU CONSTITUTION: THE BEST WAY FORWARD?
T.M.C. ASSER INSTITUUT
www.asser.nl
The upcoming 34th Session of the Asser Institute
Colloquium on European Law, organized as a major
conference to coincide with the EU Presidency of the
Netherlands in 2004, marks the occasion to make a
relevant and timely contribution to an on-going
debate about Europe’s Draft Constitution. On the
Agenda is the question if the Draft Constitution will
improve the democracy, the transparency and the
efficiency of the European Union decision-making
process.
The Conference offers a forum for debate on the EU
Constitution, with over 60 contributions by invited
experts from the European Institutions,
representatives of governments, parliaments,
judiciaries, and universities of the 25 Member States
and the 5 (pre) Candidate States, United States of
America, Switzerland and Russia. As usual, the
conference proceedings will be published.
The Conference will be of interest to officials of the
European Institutions and national governments,
members of parliaments, local authorities, policy
makers, judiciaries and practicing lawyers as well.
The topics will have a great impact on their future
professional activities.
After 16 months of debate and deliberation and more than7,000 proposed amendments, the efforts of the EuropeanConvention, have resulted in a draft Treaty for theConstitution of the European Union. The Draft sets out theterms for a Bill of Rights, a Foreign Minister and even aPresident of the European Council. In the words of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the President ofthe European Convention, the Draft represents “themaximum that could be achieved to day withoutundermining the fragile structure of the EU”. On June 20,2003 he delivered the first version of the draft Treatyestablishing a Constitution for Europe to the EuropeanCouncil at the meeting in Thessaloniki, where it wasdecided that the draft Constitution should also be signedby the new Member States immediately after they wouldjoin the EU on May 1, 2004.The Draft however is only the beginning of an ongoingprocess of negotiations and compromises. Afterunanimous approval and consent of the Draft text by all EU Members, it will take still another year and a half toconvince the national parliaments and citizens (referenda)in 25 Member States to ratify the New Constitution. Perhaps the European citizens should look at America’sfounding fathers, who spent a full year after they haddrafted the U.S. Constitution to persuade the thirteenyoung colonies to ratify it.
The European Convention consisted of 105 Members(President: Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and two Vice-Presidents: Giuliano Amato and Jean-Luc Dehaene; withrepresentatives from the 15 EU Heads of State andGovernment; 13 from the candidate countries; 30 from thenational parliaments of the EU countries; 26 from thenational parliaments of the candidate countries; 16members from the European Parliament and 2 from the EUCommission)
The conclusions, recommendations and
suggestions of this event will be
forwarded to the Dutch EU Presidency.
ProgramWednesday 13 October 200417.00 - 20.00 Registration participants to the conference
18.00 - 20.30 Joint Opening Reception for Participants of the
34th Asser Institute Colloquium on European
Law and the Matra Multi Country Conference,
hosted by the Mayor of The Hague,
Wim J. Deetman
Thursday 14 October 2004PLENARY SESSION ITHE PROCESS AND IMPACT OF EU Constitution -MAKING: VOICE AND EXIT
Chair: Deirdre Curtin, Chairperson of the Commission for
European Law of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
09.00 - 09.05 How to convince the European citizens to ratify
the EU Constitution? by Alfred E. Kellermann,
General Secretary T.M.C. Asser Instituut
09.05 - 09.10 Introduction to the subject by Deirdre Curtin,
Professor University of Utrecht
09.10 - 09.30 The EU Constitution and the European
Parliament, by the President of the EuropeanParliament (Strasbourg, Brussels) (to be invited
after election by Sjerp van der Vaart, Director
Hague Office European Parliament)
09.30 - 10.00 Keynote Speech by Joseph H.H. Weiler,
Professor New York Law School, New York
The process of EU Constitution-making and the
voice of the citizens
10.00 - 10.30 The process of ratification and the exit options:
a legal perspective, by Bruno de Witte, Professor
European University Institute (EUI), Florence
10.30 - 10.55 Questions / discussion
10.55 - 11.25 Coffee / Tea
11.25 - 12.15 Panel and General Discussion:
- Anne Peters, Professor University of Basel
- Jo Shaw, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair,
University of Manchester
- Peter-Christian Müller-Graf, Professor
University of Heidelberg
- Evgeni Tanchev (Member of the
Constitutional Court, Sofia)
12.15 - 13.45 Luncheon
14.00 - 14.30 The EU Constitution and the experiences of the
Irish Presidency, by Dick Roche, Minister of
State with responsibility for European Affairs at
the Department of the Taoiseach, Dublin
14.30 - 15.00 The EU Constitution and the Priorities of the
Dutch Presidency, by Atzo Nicolai, State
Secretary of the Netherlands for European
Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
PLENARY SESSION IITRANSPARENCY AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE EUCONSTITUTION
Chair: Jenö Czuczai, Vice-President European Law Academy
Budapest, Jean Monnet Professor College of Europe, Bruges
15.00 - 15.20 New legal instruments, by Armin vonBogdandy, Professor University of Heidelberg
and Juergen Bast, Director resp. Staff Member
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and
International Law, Heidelberg
15.20 - 15.40 Executive acts and control mechanisms, by
Michelle Everson, Birbeck College, London.
15.40 - 16.00 Coffee/ tea
16.00 - 16.20 Operational collaboration on justice, security
and policing in the constitutional framework, by
Steve Peers, Professor University of Essex
16.20 - 16.40 Drawing the threads together from parts 1 and
111 of the EU Constitution, by Jan Wouters,
Professor Leuven University
16.40 - 17.30 Panel and General Discussion:
- Piet Eeckhout, Professor Kings College
London
- Jörg Monar, Professor University of Sussex
- Nicholas Emiliou, Permanent Representative
for Cyprus, Council of Europe,
- Sinisa Rodin, Professor University of Zagreb
Conference Dinner Thursday Evening 20.00 hoursSuggested Speakers
- Piet Hein Donner, Minister of Justice of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague
- Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Warsaw, member of
the European Parliament, Strasbourg
(invited)
Friday 15 October 2004PARALLEL SESSION III ATHE DEMOCRATIC LIFE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Chair: Walter van Gerven, Former Advocate General European
Court of Justice, Luxembourg
09.00 - 09.30 The role of parliaments in the EU constitutional
framework: partnership or rivalry?
by Heidi Hautala, ex-MEP and member of
Finnish Parliament
09.30 - 10.00 Theory and reality of public access to EU
information, by Lorenzo Cotino, University of
Valencia
10.00 - 10.30 Giving substance to participation; the social
model, by Adelina Adinolfi, University of
Florence (not yet confirmed)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00 - 11.30 The European Ombudsman and the European
Constitution, by Nikiforos Diamandouros(European Ombudsman), Strasbourg
11.30 - 12.30 Panel and General Discussion:
- Tom Eijsbouts, In defence of the European
Parliament, Professor of European
Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam
- Roel Fernhout, Ombudsman of the
Netherlands, The Hague
- Gerard van der Wal, Houthoff Buruma,
Brussels
12.30 - 14.00 Luncheon
PARALLEL SESSION IIIBIMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY OFLEGISLATION EXPANSION OF EXECUTIVE, JUDICIALAND LEGISLATIVE POWERS
Chair: Francis Jacobs, Advocate General European Court of
Justice, Luxembourg
9.00 - 9.30 The evolution in the role and powers of the
European Council and the Council of Ministers,
by Jan Werts, European Correspondent in
Brussels
9.30 - 10.00 The evolution in the role and powers of the
European Commission, by Michel Petite,
Director General Legal Service of the European
Commission, Brussels
10.00 - 10.30 The expanding role of the European Parliament,
by Kieran Bradley, Member of the Legal Service,
European Parliament, Luxembourg (not yet
confirmed)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / tea
11.00 - 12.30 Panel Discussion
- Paul Craig, Professor University of Oxford
- Stanislav Biernat, Professor Jagiellonian
University, Cracow, Poland
- Christiaan W.A. Timmermans, Judge at the
European Court of Justice
- Miguel Maduro, Advocate General Court of
Justice, Luxembourg
12.30 - 14.00 Luncheon
PLENARY SESSION IVACCESS TO JUSTICE AND THE EU CONSTITUTION
Chair: Prof. Sacha Prechal, Professor University of Utrecht
14.00 - 14.30 The workload of the Luxembourg Courts and
the citizens right to a judge, by DenisWaelbroeck, Brussels
14.30 - 15.00 The expanding role of the national courts and
the EU constitutional system, by Jutta Limbach,
President of the Goethe Institute, München;
former President of the
Bundesverfassungsgericht, Karlsruhe
15.00 - 15.30 The complementary roles of Strasbourg and
Luxembourg, by Rick Lawson, Professor
University of Leiden
15.30 - 16.00 Tea Break
16.00 - 16.30 The expanding jurisdiction of the Court of
Justice, by Ad Geelhoed, Advocate General
European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
16.30 - 17.30 Panel and General Discussion:
- Arjen Meij, Judge in the Court of First
Instance, Luxembourg
- Anita Usacka, Staff Member ICC, The
Hague; Former Judge Constitutional Court,
Riga, Latvia
- Piet van Nuffel, Brussels
- Onno Brouwer, CCBE (Council of the Bars
and Law Societies of the EU), Chairman of
the Permanent Delegation to the European
Court of Justice
20.00 - 22.00 Conference Dinner Friday Evening
Suggested speakers:
- Thom de Graaff, Vice-Prime Minister of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague
- János Martonyi, former Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Hungary and Hungarian
representative in the European Convention,
Budapest
Saturday 16 October 2004FINAL SESSION
Chair: Jan Jans, Professor University of Amsterdam
09.00 - 9.30 Coffee / tea
9.30 - 10.30 Summaries and reports of the Plenary Sessions
I, II and IV and the Parallel Sessions IIIA and
IIIB, by Deirdre Curtin, Jenö Czuczai, Waltervan Gerven, Francis Jacobs and Sacha Prechal
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / tea
11.15 - 12.45 Round Table chaired by Deirdre Curtin.Suggestions and Recommendations by:
- Ayse Saadet Arikan, Ankara (view of
(pre)candidate countries)
- Jaap de Zwaan, Professor Erasmus University
Rotterdam (view of New Member States)
- Paul Magnette, Professor Universite Libre
Brussels, Belgium
- Marko Starman, State Secretary, Ministry of
Justice, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Mark Entin, Professor Moscow State Institute
for International Relations, Director
European Law Institute MGIMO, Moscow
(view from a neighbouring non-Member
State) and representatives of the European
Court of Justice, Council and Commission
12.45 -13.00 Closing remarks and follow-up, by
Alfred E. Kellermann, General Secretary,
T.M.C. Asser Instituut
13.00 - 15.00 Closing Luncheon