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EUROPEAN SEMINARTuesday 14th - Wednesday 15th November 2006
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To download the program and the registration form to format PDF SGIs are a subject of a lot of debates going on within the European Union. Part of these services are regulated by sector-specific directives in transport, energy, posts and telecommunications. The task of defining what constitutes public service obligations is the responsibility of Member States within the Union. Nevertheless, in the case of local services just as in the social sector, the Court of Justice of the European Communities plays a key role without, however, ensuring the parties concerned - public authorities, operators, consumers and citizens, company staff - sufficient legal certainty as regards their activities nor the guarantee of their fundamental rights, territorial cohesion, economic and social cohesion. For years, the principal organisations of the civil society at the European level, such as political forces, have been calling for the creation of a transversal substantive law on SGEIs. European institutions are either hesitant or they question the feasibility and the added value of such transversal texts. Certain Member States and political forces are strongly opposed to this idea. In recent months a number of civil society organisations and political forces have expressed the need to illustrate the usefulness and the contribution of such texts. They have written draft framework directives or bills all of which converge on the essence. The goal of the seminar will be to examine common contributions of these drafts, identify convergences and possible mobilisations so as to come up with a concrete European conception of services of general interest, emerging from fifteen years of debates, legislative activity and case law at the Union’s level. Tuesday 14th November - 1:30 am : Reception of the participants 1rst Session 2:30 – 5:30 pm : Law – Framework Directive … Which content ? Chair : Claire ROUMET, CECODHAS 2:30 pm : Welcoming by Michel DELEBARRE, President of the Committee of the Regions 2:45 – 3 pm : Chronological account of the idea of framework directive and transversal legislation. Political and social context. Report : Pierre BAUBY, Secretariat of the CELSIG 3 – 3:30 pm : Content and convergences of the various projects 3:30 – 5:30 pm : Debate with the audience – Expression of the European NGOs and networks 1 5:30 pm : Reception for the publishing of the 200th of the CELSIG's News Letter« Nouvelles-News-Europe » Wednesday 15th November Chair : CIRIEC Introduction : Jean-Claude BOUAL, Secretariat of the CELSIG Debate with the audience et definition of modes of actions. Conclusions : Jean-Claude BOUAL, Secretariat of the CELSIG 3rd Session 2:30 – 5:30 pm : Promoting SGI for everyone … Which future ? Chair : Heidi HESSKE, EUROCITIES Introduction : Katherine VARIN, Secretariat of the CELSIG Panel : Representatives from the European Institutions 5 pm : Conclusions : Katherine VARIN, Secretariat of the CELSIG Working languages : EN, FR, DE Participation fee : 100 € including participation, documents, reception of the 14th , lunch of the 15th (*) to be confirmed |
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