The British Law Centre and the CEEMC present the

CEEMC 20TH

ANNIVERSARY

EUROPEAN LAW

CONFERENCE 2014 APRIL 24

TH WARSAW, POLAND, SALA A3, LIPOWA 4

THE EU AND ITS JUDICIARY

A Celebration of Judicial Synergy An overview from six perspectives to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement.

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20 th

CEEMC ANNIVERSARY

CONFERENCE

A welcome note from the British Law Centre

The Central and Eastern European Moot Competition is no stranger to

the conference circuit, with an academic conference almost always

preceding the competition. The primary aim of the CEEMC, throughout

its 20 years of existence, has essentially been to bring students from

Central and Eastern European countries closer to the European Union

through its laws and judicial institutions, so the opportunity to use the

great legal brains that annually congregate together to judge at the

CEEMC was too good an opportunity to miss, with this celebratory

conference being the natural result. We hope that academics and

practitioners from the region will take the opportunity to be a part of a

high quality legal discussion and debate on European law that would

not normally be available to them.

2014 is for us a particularly special year. Not only will the CEEMC be

celebrating its 20th year as a competition in the CEE region but 2014

also marks the 10th anniversary of the largest enlargement , and with

it the biggest shift in the axis of power in the history of the European

Union. For these two reasons alone we have brought to Warsaw, the

phoenix city of the British Law Centre and Clifford Chance (CEEMC

primary sponsors), a number of the region’s finest academics,

practitioners and lawyers to discuss one of the most important

contemporary topics since ratification of the Lisbon Treaty: the role

played by judges, both national and at the European Union level and

together and alone, in ensuring the highest level of protection

available under European Union law.

We look forward to meeting you in Warsaw.

For more information on the 2014 CEEMC Conference and to register your place, please check

the BLC website at http://britishlawcentre.co.uk/ceemc-conference-2014

CEEMC 2014 WARSAW Conference Co-Chairs:

Eleanor Sharpson QC

Advocate General UK,

CJEU

Prof. Maciej Szpunar

Advocate General Poland,

CJEU

Held under the

patronage of

The Ministry of Justice of

the Republic of Poland

The Right Honorable

Robin Barnett,

Ambassador of the United

Kingdom to Poland

Prof. Marek Safjan, the

Polish judge at the

European CJEU

GIODO, Inspector General

for Personal Data

Protection in Poland

The Faculty of Law,

University of Cambridge

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

‘THE EU AND ITS JUDICIARY- A Celebration of Judicial Synergy ‘

In celebration of CEEMC 20th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of 2004 EU enlargement

Thursday 24th April

10.00—10.25

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference

Denise Ashmore MBE—British Law Centre

Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Warsaw

MORNING SESSION CHAIRED BY MACIEJ SZPUNAR AG

I: OVERVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE CJEU IN NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEMS

Perspectives of academia, Member State, NGOs and EU

10.25—11.05 Professor Rosa Greaves

The increasing importance of CJEU

jurisprudence and the integration of the

Member States national courts- the early

years

Carsten Zatschler

The CJEU as legislator

NATIONAL VIEWPOINT: POLAND

11.05—11.35 Dr Wojciech Wiewiorowski (GIODO)

Judicial Review of European Privacy Law

HE Beata Jaczewska

The CJEU as last instance for policy making by

national government

THE CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT DECADE

11.35—12.15 Advocate General Maciej Szpunar

The EU and its courts, - A decade of challenges faced and overcome, looking to the future

12.15—12.30 Panel Discussion and Questions

12.30—14.00 LUNCH BREAK

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday 24th April AFTERNOON SESSION CHAIRED BY ELEANOR SHARPSTON AG

II: AN EU LEGAL SYSTEM THE CHALLENGE FOR NATIONAL COURTS

Perspectives of academia, practitioner and National and EU courts.

14.00—14.30 Judge Stanislaw Biernat

The Constitutional Court’s competence to

check that EU secondary legislation

complies with the Polish Constitution.

Judge Jan Passer

The National Hierarchy of courts within the

European Union judicial structure (the Landtova

case)

14.30—15.00

Professor Tomasz Koncewicz

Polish Constitutional Court and EU law.

Actor or Spectator?

Professor Michal Bobek

What role for Constitutional Courts within the EU

Judicial Structure?

15.00—15.10 TEA BREAK

III:THE EUROPEAN UNION COURTS—HOW TO ENSURE EFFICIENCY AND CONSISTENCY AND

STILL EMBRACE LEGAL, CULTURAL, EMPIRICAL AND LIGUISTIC DIVERSITY?

15.10—15.40 David Guild

The challenge of harmonizing a wealth of

languages.

Catherine Howdle

The role of the legal secretary (référendaires)

15.40—16.35 Przemyslaw Rosiak

Some sensitive/current issues related to

EU courts from a practitioner’s view

Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston

A tribute to collaboration and harmonization?

16.35—16.45 Panel Discussion and Questions

16.45—17.00

AG SHARPSTON AND AG SZPUNAR

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

17.30—19.00

DRINKS RECEPTION

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND IN POLAND (BY INVITATION ONLY)

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Maciej Szpunar is the Polish

Advocate General at the

CJEU. Maciej is a qualified

polish advocate and in the

past has held the position of

Polish Vice-minister of

Foreign Affairs and joined

the judging panel of CEEMC

in Gdansk in 2003.

Stanisław Biernat is the Vice-

president of the Polish

Constitutional Court as well

as being a Professor of

European Law at Jagellonian

University and co-hosted the

CEEMC when held in Krakow

in 1999.

Carsten Zatschler is a

UK Barrister and

former Head of Cabinet

for Judge Vajda, the UK

judge at the European

CJEU and a judge on

CEEMCsince 2004

Judge Jan Passer is

a member of the

Supreme

Administrative

Court of the Czech

Republic and

joined the judges

panel of the

CEEMC in Brno in

2013.

Eleanor Sharpston has been the UK

Advocate General at the CJEU since

January 2006. Before becoming AG,

Eleanor was a successful QC and Head of

Chambers in England and Wales and has

been the President of the CEEMC since

2009.

Wojciech

Wiewiorowski is the

Inspector General of

GIODO, the Polish

Data Protection

Agency and was a

member of the

Gdansk team

mooting at the

CEEMC in 1997.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Professor Rosa Greaves is

Professor of European Law,

specialising in European

commercial law, at the

University of Glasgow and a

judge at CEEMC.

Her Excellency Beata Jaczewska

was the Polish Vice-Minister for

the Environment from 2011 to

December 2013 where she

assisted in organizing and chairing

the COP-19 UN Climate Change

Conference in Warsaw in

December 2013. She is a BLC

alumna and competed in the

CEEMC in Plovdiv in 2002.

Professor Tomasz Koncewicz

is the Professor of Law and

Director of the Chair of

European and Comparative

Law of the Faculty of Law and

Administration of the

University of Gdansk

Michal Bobek is the Professor

of European Law at the

College of Europe in Bruge,

Belgium. As from 2013, he has

been nominated by the Czech

Republic as an ad hoc judge to

the European Court of Human

Rights . He is a BLC alumni,

competed in the CEEMC in

2003 and now is a regular

member of the CEEMC judicial

panel.

Przemysław Rosiak is

a Polish advocate at

KPMG D. Dobkowski

Law Office. He has

more than 15 years

of experience in EU

competition law and

state aid and is a BLC

alumni.

Cath Howdle is working at

the Legal and Executive

Affairs Unit at the EFTA

Surveillance Authority.

David Guild is the Head of

the English-language

translation unit at the CJEU

to the European Union.

20 th

CEEMC ANNIVERSARY

CONFERENCE

The British Law Centre

The BLC started as a joint venture between the Law Faculties of the

University of Cambridge and Warsaw. The primary objective was to provide a

corps of Polish lawyers with sufficient knowledge of English law to meet the

needs of English and Polish law firms. Since then its popularity and prestige

have increased considerably and has led to its course being recognised, by its

students and law firm sponsors, as ideal preparation for legal practice in an

international law firm.

The need for lawyers who have a background in European Union law, as well

as a working knowledge of different national legal systems was seen as an

essential element of contemporary legal practice. Since its inception the BLC

has seen more than 2000 students pass through its centres, gaining on the

way a background in both English law and EU law. Those graduates, whilst

pursuing varied careers in EU institutions, national government ministries,

universities or law firms (both national and international) have each in their

own way assisted in the transition of their countries during the early years of

membership in the European Union. In helping to prepare them, the BLC has

made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the political and

legal transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.

CEEMC 2014 WARSAW Testimonial

AG Eleanor Sharpston

“Working within any legal

system requires

both linguistic precision and

deep immersion in

that system’s legal culture.

Young lawyers from Central

and Eastern Europe who

have studied with the British

Law Centres of JAS therefore

have an immense ad-

vantage when it comes to

dealing with English-

speaking colleagues from

common law systems.”

Testimonial

Sir Konrad Schiemann

UK Judge at the CJEU

'Juris Angliae Scientia and its

British Law Centres based

throughout Central and

Eastern Europe have made a

magnificent contribution to

legal education throughout

the region.'

THE CEEMC

The Central and East European Moot competition (CEEMC) was founded in

1996 by the British Law Centre and simulates a preliminary reference from a

fictional Member State of the European Union to the European CJEU.

Teams from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,

Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia,

Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine have taken part in past competitions, to find

themselves competing before a panel of judges comprised of experts from

the European CJEU and the European Commission, the world of academia

and professional legal community

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