Agenda
Lawmaking, social rights and the local dimension of the EU Charter
23 November
09:30 – 10:00 The virtual meeting room opens
10:00 – 10:10 Opening and welcome
- Sanja Jovičić, Legal Expert FRA
10:10 – 10:20 Keynote address
- Sirpa Rautio, Director, FRA
- Ana Gallego, Director-General, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Presentation will be recorded
10:20 – 11:20 Incorporating the EU Charter in regulatory impact assessments
This session will discuss how to ensure effective fundamental rights impact assessment for legislation implementing EU law. It will provide examples of tools and promising practices. This session is especially relevant to policy makers, such as staff of national parliaments and governments, as well as EU staff involved in regulatory impact assessment.
Moderated by: Maria Mousmouti, Professor, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London
Contributions by: Bairbre Meaney, Head of Participation, Play and Recreation Unit, Department of Children Disability and Equality, Ireland; Hanna Rönty, Senior Legal Expert, Ministry of Justice of Finland; Andriana Efthymiadou and Katharina Eisele, Ex-ante Impact Assessment and Ex-post Evaluation units, European Parliament Research Service (EPRS).
Panel will be recorded
11:20 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:20 Social rights in the EU - aligning the protection under the EU Charter and the European Social Charter
Considering the increased interaction between European Union law and the Council of Europe standards, this session will discuss challenges and opportunities in aligning social rights protection under the EU Charter and European Social Charter.
Moderated by: Moderated by: Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, Head of Equality, Inclusion and Sustainability Unit, FRA
Contributions by: Aoife Nolan, President, European Committee of Social Rights, Olivier De Schutter, Professor of Law at UCLouvain, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and on extreme poverty
Panel will be recorded
12:20 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 13:20 Local lab: How cities and civil society cooperate to make the EU Charter work locally
How can cities use self-assessment tools to understand their compliance with fundamental rights in practice? How can they turn fundamental rights commitments into action, improve coordination and collaboration across departments and with civil society, or build a stronger evidence base for policy and planning? This Charter lab for local and regional authorities, civil society and academia will explore these questions through practical experience of two cities from the EU RIGHTS CITIES project. The lab will showcase the implementation of the EU Charter Strategy and the EU Civil Society Strategy at local level.
Moderated by: Morten Kjaerum, Honorary Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
Contributions by: TBC
Session will be recorded
13:20 – 13:10 Day 1 wrap up
- Sanja Jovičić, Legal Expert FRA
The Charter in the digital world and enlargement
24 November
09:30 – 10:00 The virtual meeting room opens
10:00 – 10:05 Opening and welcome by European Commission
- Femke Gremmelprez, Legal Officer, European Commission
10:05 – 11:00 Horizontal effect of the EU Charter in the digital arena
This panel discussion will reflect upon the horizontal effect of the Charter provisions in the application of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), This session targets legal practitioners.
Moderated by: Carine Kaunes, Executive Director, Centre for AI and Digital Humanism
Contributions by: Robert Spano, Partner and Barrister, Gibson Dunn, former president of the European Court of Human Rights; Gianclaudio Malgieri, Full Professor of Law, Chair in AI, Data Governance and Fundamental Rights, Maastricht University; David Reichel, Head of Data and Digital Sector, FRA; Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General, Court of Justice of the EU (TBC).
Panel will be recorded
11:00 – 12:00 Illegal and other harmful content online – how the EU Charter protects children
Considering FRA’s recent findings on social media age restrictions, as well as FRA’s ongoing research on current risks and harms for children online (gamification of crime; incel culture; grooming; doxing, incitement to nihilistic violence and much more), this session will discuss the first experiences of legal professionals in applying the Digital Services Act (DSA) together with the EU Charter to protect children online.
Co-moderated by: European Commission, DG CNECT (tbc) and Sara Sighinolfi, Project Officer, Data and Digital Sector, FRA.
Contributions by: Iverna McGowan, Advisor on Tech & Human Rights, United Nations; Julia Radanova, Head of DSA Dispute Settlement Service, ADR Centre; His Honour Judge Geoffrey Shannon SC, Judge, Circuit Court, Ireland.
Panel will be recorded
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 13:15 EU Charter enlargement lab - the (potential) role of the Charter
This session will explore experiences in aligning national human rights protection systems with the EU Charter by current EU Candidate Countries. The discussion of this session will focus on approaches taken and lessons learned, such as in relation to legislative reforms, national human rights structures and effects on national case law.
Moderated by: Najada Shundi, Ministry of Justice, Albania, FRA National Liaison Officer
Contributions by: Vanja Dabižinović, Deputy Head of the Working Group for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, Ministry of European Affairs of Montenegro; Oleksandr Vodiannikov, Judge, Constitutional Court of Ukraine
Session will be recorded
13:15 – 13:30 Conclusions
- Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Head of Charter, Rule of Law and Democracy Sector, FRA