Program (including presentations)

Annual Conference - 18 and 19 October 2010

EUFJE BRUSSELS CONFERENCE 2010 – THE ENFORCEMENT OF EUROPEAN BIODIVERSITY LAW AT NATIONAL LEVEL

Egmont Palace, Brussels

Provisional program

Monday, 18 October

9: 00 Board Meeting

9: 30 Registration of participants

10: 00 Welcoming – Luc LAVRYSEN, President EUFJE

10: 05 Opening address: Federal Minister for Climate & Energy or DG Roland MOREAU - European Environmental Policy under the Belgian Presidency

10:30 General Assembly

First session – Enforcement of European Law

11:00 CJEU Judge Koen LENAERTS – The general enforcement obligation of European (environmental) law (art. 4 TEU) – Case law of the Court (pdf, 343 KB)

11:30 Coffee

11:45 Roel MEEUS (Ghent University) – Specific sanctioning requirements in EU Environmental Directives (ppt, 390 KB)

12:15 Carole BILLIET (Ghent University/ Flemish Environmental Enforcement Court) – Specific sanctioning requirements in EU Environmental Regulations (ppt, 381 KB)

12:45 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

Second session – European Biodiversity Law

14:15 Linda NYLUND (DG Environment EC) – Interpretation and application of art. 6.4 Habitats Directive – The New Interpretation Guidelines (ppt, 2.35 MB)

14:45 Nicolas DE SADELEER (UCL) - European Biodiversity Law – Protection of Habitats (ppt, 377 KB)

15:15 Charles-Hubert BORN (UCL) - European Biodiversity Law – Protection of Species (ppt, 4.08 MB)

15:45 Discussion

16: 00 Coffee

Third session – Discussion on national reports

16:15 – 17:15 First item

- Carole M. BILLIET (Belgium) (ppt, 309 KB)

- Karin BRUZELIUS (Norway) ( text (pdf, 50 KB) / ppt (ppt, 141 KB) / Norwegian Nature Diversity Act 2009 (pdf, 1.45 MB))

- Françoise NÉSI (France) (pdf, 53 KB)

- William BIRTLES & Robert CARNWATH (UK) ( document 1 (pdf, 2.15 MB) / document 2 (pdf, 1.94 MB))

19:00 Diner: Le Cloître au Cinquantenaire

Tuesday, 19 October

Fourth session – Discussion on national reports (continued)

9:00 - 10:30 Second item

- Ludo DE JAGER (Belgium) (ppt, 1.12 MB)

- Carole M. BILLIET (Belgium) (ppt, 327 KB)

- Françoise NÉSI (France) (pdf, 100 KB)

- Kari KUUSINIEMI (Finland) (ppt, 139 KB)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 12:00 Third item

- Luc LAVRYSEN (Belgium) (ppt, 1.54 MB)

- Jan VAN DEN BERGHE (Belgium)

- Emiel VAN DEN BERG (The Netherlands) (ppt, 77 KB)

12:00 – 12:30 Conclusion and end of judges conference

12: 30 Lunch

Extraordinary session - Meeting with environmental prosecutors

13:30 Registration of public prosecutors

14.00 - 14.30 Julio GARCIA BURGUES (DG Environment – EC) – The implementation, application and enforcement of European Environmental Law – A Commission Perspective

14.30 - 15.00 Representative of UNEP – The UNEP Global Inititiative on Public Prosecutors and Environmental Law (ppt, 206 KB)

15.00 – 15.30 Prof. Dr. Ludwig KRÄMER, The criminal enforcement of European Environmental Law (ppt, 137 KB)

15:30 – 16.00 Coffee

16.00 – 17.30 Presentation of national experiences of public prosecutors specialised in environmental criminal law

Chair: Eric Staudt (Belgium)

- Mr. Gustaaf A. Biezeveld (The Netherlands) ( text (pdf, 66 KB) / ppt (ppt, 115 KB))

- Mr. Antonio Vercher Noguera (Spain)

- Ms. Bonomi Nóra Katalin (Hungary)

- Mr. Wouter Haelewyn (Belgium) (ppt, 8.31 MB)

- Mr. Jonathan Robinson (UK) (ppt, 1.58 MB)

17:30 Closing adress: Federal Minister for Climate & Energy or DG Roland MOREAU

18:00 Reception at Constitutional Court