European Consumer Day "Consumption without borders"

Friday 18 March 2011
Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism
9-11 Alkotmany Street
1054 Budapest

DRAFT PROGRAMME

8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 10.30 Opening ceremony
Welcome address by Dr Endre Horváth, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry for National Economy
Addresses by:
• Mr Staffan Nilsson, President of the EESC
• Mrs Pareskevi Michou, Director, DG JUST, European Commission introducing a recorded message of Mrs Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Mrs Jacqueline Minor, Director, DG SANCO, European Commission introducing a recorded message addressed by Mr John Dalli, Member of the European Commission
• European Parliament (to be confirmed)
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 11.15 "Consumption without Borders" – point of view of the European Commission
Mrs Pareskevi Michou, Director, DG JUST, European Commission
Mrs Jacqueline Minor, Director, DG SANCO, European Commission
11.15 - 11.55 Workshop 1 - Consumer contracts in the framework of Common Framework of Reference
Moderator: Mr Ivan Voleš, CESE
Rapporteur: Mr Jorge Pegado Liz, CESE
Participants:
• Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke, European Legal Studies Institute, Osnabrück, Germany
• Mrs Pareskevi Michou, Director – "Civil Justice", DG Justice, European Commission
• Mrs Fatma Sahin, Adviser on Internal market & Consumer Affairs, EuroCommerce
• Mrs Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director General, BEUC
• Mr Luc Hendrickx, Director Enterprise Policy and external Relations, UEAPME
11.55 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 - 15.15 Workshop 2 – Consumer rights in the digital environment
Moderator: Mrs Benedicte Federspiel, EESC
Rapporteur: Group II, EESC
Participants:
• Mrs Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Manager Regulatory Policy, Microsoft (to be confirmed)
• European Parliament (to be confirmed)
• Mr Jérome Chauvin, Director, Legal Affairs Department, Internal Market Department, BUSINESSEUROPE
• Mr György Morvay, President, National Association for Consumer Protection in Hungary
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.30 Discussion
16.30 – 17.00 Closing session
Main points and conclusions by rapporteurs
Conclusions by Mr Bryan Cassidy, President of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, EESC.
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