Symposium 2013 Programme

Thursday, 6 JuneWorkshops

18.00

Welcome drink at FRA

19.30 

Evening reception

at Restaurant Arco, Marokkanergasse 3, Vienna

Friday, 7 JuneWorkshops

08.15 – 09.00

Registration and welcome coffee

Plenary moderation provided by Friso Roscam Abbing, FRA Head of Communication department.
09.00 – 09.10

Welcome by Morten Kjaerum, FRA Director

09.10 - 09.25 Keynote speech by Katheleen Lynch, Irish Minister of State, Department of Health and Department of Justice, Equality & Defence 
09.25 - 10.00

Presentations by keynote speakers:

  • Rui Tavares, Member of the LIBE Committee, European Parliament 
  • Emmanuel Crabit, Head of Unit ‘General justice policies and judicial systems’, European Commission
10.00 – 10.30

Q & A session

10.30 - 13.00

3 parallel working groups

  • Working  group  I – The EU: what role for the rule of law

- Rule of law, justice and fundamental rights requirements within the European Union

- Basis for monitoring the rule of law in the European Union

Moderator: Jonas Grimheden, FRA Head of Sector ‘Access to Justice’

Rapporteur: Constance Grewe, Professor emeritus of Public law, University of Strasbourg and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

  • Working  group  II – Indicators: measuring performances and trends

- Links between the rule of law, justice and fundamental rights

- What indicators could best measure the rule of law?

Moderator: Joanna Goodey, FRA Head of Freedoms and Justice Department

Rapporteur: Deaglán Ó Briain, Irish Presidency, Chair of the Working Party of the Council of the EU on Fundamental Rights, Citizens Rights and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP)

 

  • Working  group  III – Mechanisms: synergies amongst existing monitoring schemes and further developments

- How can existing mechanisms be used?

- How to develop synergy and refinement between existing mechanisms?

Moderator: Martin Gramatikov, Senior Justice Sector Advisor at HiiL The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law

Rapporteur: Tatiana Termacic, Head of Support to Human Rights National Implementation Unit, Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.50

Plenary
Reporting from the rapporteurs of the working groups
Q&A 

15.50 - 16.00

Concluding remarks by Morten Kjaerum, FRA Director

16.00 - 16.30

Farewell coffee

There will be simultaneous interpretation English-French.