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conference:
THE NEW EUROPEAN MARITIME POLICY

- The Political Green Paper Debate -
 

 Thursday 23 November 2006, Brussels
 

Brussels Marriott Hotel

 

     

Thursday 23 November 2006

     
08.00   Registration
 
09:00  

Welcome by the Conference chairman
Niko Wijnolst
Chairman Dutch Maritime Network

 

09:05
Stavros Dimas
Keynote address 1:

Stavros Dimas
EC Commissioner for Environment
Environmental challenges and the Future European Maritime Policy
 

session 1
 

European Parliament and Member States Parliament Perspectives


 

09:25 Introduction to the session
by the Session Chairman
Niko Wijnolst
Chairman Dutch Maritime Network


speakers:
09.30 Paolo Costa
Chairman, Transport and Tourism Committee
 
09:45 Corien M. Wortmann-Kool
Member European Parliament
 
10:00 Willi Piecyk
Green Paper Rapporteur European Parliament
 
10:15 coffee break
 
10:45 Miltiadis Varvitsiotis
Member of Parliament, Greece
 
11:00 Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen
Member of Parliament, Norway
 
11:15  Forum Discussion between speakers and audience participants on the following theme:
 
The New European Maritime Policy
An shared vision for Europe?

 
12:15 Lunch
 

session 2
 

The European Maritime Industry Perspective

 

13:30 Introduction to the session
by the Session Chairman
Julian Bray
Chief editor, Lloyd’s List


speakers:
13:35 Corrado Antonini
Chairman
Italian Maritime Cluster
 
13:45 Alkiviades John Corres
Member of the Board of the
Greek Short Sea Union of Shipowners and
Chairman
Association of Maritime Economists of Greece
 
13:55 Paul Greaves
European Marine Equipment Council
Head of Research & Technology – Marine, Rolls-Royce
 
14:05 Patrick Verhoeven
Secretary General,
European Seaports Association
 
14:15 Saskia Richartz
Greenpeace European Unit
 
14:25 Rob Stevens
Chairman, European Union Recreational Marine Industry Group
 
14:35 Marguerite Sequaris
CEO, European Hotel and Restaurant Association (HOTREC)

 
14:45 Carl Gustaf Lundin
Director, IUCN Marine Program (World Conservation Union)
 
14:55 

Forum Discussion between speakers and audience participants on the following theme:
 

Critical Success Factors of an integrated European Maritime Policy

 

15:45 Tea break
 
  session 3

From Green Paper to a European Action Plan

 


Keynote address 2:
16:00
Joe Borg
Joe Borg
Commissioner Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
The European Maritime Policy, from Green Paper to a European Action Plan
 
16:20 Niko Wijnolst
Conference Chairman
Chairman Dutch Maritime Network
Structuring the debate
 
16:25 John Richardson
Chairman EU Maritime Policy Task Force
Defining the major issues for the debate
 
16:35 Fotis Karamitsos
Director Maritime Transport, DG TREN
Maritime transport’s priorities
 
16:45 Forum Discussion between speakers and audience participants on the following theme:
 
From Green Paper to a European Action Plan
 
17:45 Concluding remarks
Niko Wijnolst
Conference Chairman
Chairman Dutch Maritime Network

 
18:00- 19:00 Reception
Networking event with the members of the Green Paper Taskforce
 

 

We look forward to welcoming you in Brussels,

 

Niko Wijnolst
Conference Chairman
Chairman Dutch Maritime Network

 

 

Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director

Mare Forum

 



 

INFORMATION
For further information on the conference please contact:

Mare Forum
Beurs – World Trade Center
P.O. Box 30027
3001 DA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 10 281 0655
F: +31 10 270 9870
E:
info@mareforum.com