DRAFT AGENDA

European Conference on Preventing and Combatting
Trafficking in Human Beings

 
   
 

Global Challenge for the 21st Century
Under the High Patronage of H.R.M. the King of the Belgians

18-20 September 2002
Hemicycle (Spaak building, 3rd floor)
European Parliament
Rue Wiertz, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Wednesday 18th September 2002

Thursday 19th September 2002
Friday 20th September 2002

Wednesday 18th September 2002

8:00 - 9:00     Registration

9:00 - 10:30   Opening Ceremony:                      
Chairperson/ opening speech:

Mr. Renzo Imbeni, Vice-president, European Parliament
Statements by:
Mr. Brunson McKinley, Director General, International Organization for Migration
(IOM)
Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister, Belgium
Ms. Henriette Kjaer, Minister for Gender Equality of Denmark on behalf of the
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish EU Presidency
Ms. Margherita Boniver, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Italy
Mr. Jan Kubiš, Secretary General, Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe (OSCE)
Mr. Antonio María Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Drug
Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP)


10:30 - 12.30     European Union Policies and Outlook on Combating Trafficking in Human
                        Beings
                        Chairperson and Key Note Speaker:

Mr. Antonio Vitorino, Member of the European Commission, Justice and Home
Affairs
Statements by:
Ms. Laurette Onkelinx, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and
Equal Opportunities, Belgium
Ms. Monika Lamperth, Minister of Interior, on behalf of Mr. Péter Medgyessy,
Prime Minister of Hungary
Mr. Pavel Rychetsky, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Czech
Republic
Ms. Ana Karamanou, Member of the European Parliament, Chairperson of the
Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities
Mr. Ján Carnogurský, Minister of Justice, Slovak Republic
Dr. Edith Niehuis, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for
Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Germany
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Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe
Mr. Zenon Kosiniak Kamysz, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Interior,
Poland
Ms. Helga Konrad, Chair of the Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in
Human Beings

12:30 - 15:00     Lunch break

15:00 - 16.00     Panel on Prevention of Trafficking
                       Chairperson:

Ms. Anne-Marie Lizin, Senator, President of the Commission for Interior
and Administrative Affairs, Belgian Senate and Mayor of the City of Huy
Panellists:
Ms. Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General, IOM
Ms. Doris Pack, Member of the European Parliament, Chairperson of the
Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South-East Europe
Ms. Glenys Kinnock, Member of the European Parliament, Co-president of
the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Mr. Rado Bohinc, Minister of Interior, Slovenia
Mr. Kari Tapiola, Executive Director, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Mr. Soren Christensen, Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers
Rapporteurs:
Mr. Marco Gramegna, Head of Counter Trafficking Services, IOM
Mr. Alexandru Farcas, State Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Romania
Ms. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Judge, Criminal Court of Rome, Italy,
Legal Expert to the Council of Europe


16:00 - 18:30     Plenary debate on Prevention of Trafficking

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Thursday 19th September 2002

9:00 - 10:00     Panel on Victims Protection and Assistance
                      Chairperson:

Ms. Maj-Britt Theorin, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-president of the
ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Panellists:
Ms. Anna Diamantopoulou, Member of the European Commission, Employment
and Social Affairs
Mr. Marc Verwilghen, Minister of Justice, Belgium
Ms. Margareta Winberg, Minister for Equal Opportunities, Sweden
Dr. Tonio Borg, Minister for Home Affairs, Malta
Ms. Patsi Sorensen, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and of
the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities
Mr. Paul Wille, Senator, President of the Commission on Trafficking in Human
Beings, Belgian Senate
Rapporteurs:
Mr. Paul Holmes, International Law Enforcement Coordination Expert, United
Kingdom
Ms. Renate Augstein, Deputy Head of Department for Equal Opportunities,
Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth,
Germany
Ms. Roberta Angelilli, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs

10:00- 12:30     Plenary debate on Victims Protection and Assistance

12:30 - 15:00    Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:00    Panel on Police and Judicial Cooperation
                      Chairperson:

Baroness Sarah Ludford, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs
Panellists:
Mr. Antoine Duquesne, Minister of Interior, Belgium
Mr. Pierluigi Vigna, Prosecutor General and President of the National Anti
Mafia Directorate, Italy
Ms. Ingrida Labucka, Minister of Justice, Latvia
Dr. Krisztina Berta, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Interior, Hungary
Mr. Ion Morei, Minister of Justice, Republic of Moldova
Mr. Willy Bruggeman, Deputy Director General, Europol
Rapporteurs:
Mr. Serge Brammertz, Federal Prosecutor, Belgium
Mr. Emanuele Marotta, Director of the Office of International Relations,
Ministry of Interior, Italy


16:00 - 18:30     Plenary Debate on Police and Judicial Cooperation
19:00                Reception hosted by the International Organization for Migration
                        in the European Parliament (Forum Bar)

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Friday 20th September 2002

9:00 - 10:30     THE BRUSSELS DECLARATION and the Perspectives of Preventing
                      and Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings in the Enlarged Europe
                      Chairperson:

Mr. Elmar Brok, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the
Committee for Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and
Defense Policy
Statements by:
Ms. Željka Antunovic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence,
Croatia
Mr. Mircea Geoana, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Romania
Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Director
of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S Department
of State
Ms. Anita Gradin, Chairwoman, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social
Research, Sweden
Mr. Sylweriusz Królak, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Poland
Ms. Maria Paola Colombo Svevo, President of the International Social
Service, Italy



10:30 - 10:40     Statement by Mr. François-Xavier de Donnea, The Minister of the
                        Regional Government of Brussels Capital

10:30 - 12:00    THE BRUSSELS DECLARATION, Conclusions and recommendations
                        Chairperson:

Rapporteurs:
Ms. Renate Augstein, Deputy Head of Department for Equal Opportunities,
Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth,
Germany
Ms. Roberta Angelilli, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the
Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs
Mr. Serge Brammertz, National Prosecutor, Belgium
Mr. Alexandru Farcas, State Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Romania
Ms. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Judge, Criminal Court of Rome, Italy, Legal
Expert to the Council of Europe.
Mr. Marco Gramegna, Head of Counter Trafficking Services, IOM
Mr. Paul Holmes, International Law Enforcement Coordination Expert, United
Kingdom
Mr. Emanuele Marotta, Director of the Office of International Relations,
Ministry of Interior, Italy


12:00 - 12:30     Closing statement by the Danish EU Presidency

Ms. Vibeke Abel, Deputy General Secretary, Minister for Gender Equality,
Denmark
Mr. Brunson McKinley, Director General, IOM
Mr. Adrian Fortescue, Director General Directorate General - Justice and
Home Affairs, European Commission.
Mr. Jorge Salvador Hernández Mollar, Member of the European Parliament,
Chairperson of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice
and Home Affairs

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