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€ 225 Conference fee for staff members of

universities (and academic institutions)

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member states and (pre)candidate

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NOT included)

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€ 32 Luncheon 15 October

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€ 32 Luncheon 16 October

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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

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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


- 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


- 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


- 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

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