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Programme 10 years of EMU Lawyers conference January 2009 en
| 09:00-09:30 | Opening of the conference and Opening speech Mr. L. Bini Smaghi, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank |
| 09:30-13:00 | Module 1. Institutional structure of EMU Chair: Mr. J.C. Piris, Director General, Legal Service, Council of the European Union |
| 09:30-10:15 | (1) Introduction: EMU and the EU: Short history of EMU;
EMU within the EU treaties; EMU and the Four freedoms
and internal market; the two parts of EMU: the E and
the M en Mr. J.V. Louis, Professor of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 10:15-11.:00 | (2) ESCB: ECB and NCBs; the Eurosystem; ECB’s decision making bodies; ECB’s legal acts en Mr. H. Le Guen, Departmental Director, Legal Department, Banque de France (France) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:15 |
(3) Governance of EMU: Roles of Ecofin, Eurogroup, EFC, European Commission and European Parliament en Ms. R. Lastra, Professor of International Financial and Monetary Law, University of London |
| 12:15-13:00 |
Discussion |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-18:00 |
Module 2.The single currency: the euro Chair: Mr. B. Krauskopf, General Counsel, Deutsche Bundesbank (Germany) |
| 14:30-15:15 | (1) Economic and legal convergence: economic criteria, legal criteria and assessment process en Mr. J. Doherty, Head of Legal Service, General Secretariat Department, Legal Unit, Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Ireland) |
| 15:15-16:00 |
(2) Introduction of the euro in EU Member States; opt-outs; legal differentiation within the Union; official use of the euro by non-EU countries and territories en Ms. C. Zilioli, Head of the Legal Advice Division of the Directorate General Legal Services, European Central Bank |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30-17:15 |
(3) Banknotes: issuance, changeover, common logistics, counterfeiting and protection of euro banknotes en Mr.T.Wagner, Deputy Head of Legal Division, Legal Division, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austria) |
| 17:15-18:00 |
Discussion |
| 20:00-23:00 |
Dinner at the Frankfurter Hof Hotel, in the room: “Festsaal”, hosted by
Mr. A. Sáinz de Vicuña, General Counsel of the European Central Bank Keynote speech:“10 Years of the Euro: Reflections from the IMF” en Mr. S. Hagan, General Counsel of the International Monetary Fund |
| 09:00-13:00 |
Module 3. Modus operandi of the Eurosystem Chair: Mr. J. Santos, Senior Legal Advisor, Legal Department, Banco de Portugal (Portugal) |
| 09:00-09:30 | (1) Objectives and tasks of the Eurosystem.Other national tasks of central banks en Mr. D. Servais, Head of International & Eurosystem Coordination, International & Eurosystem Coordination; and Mr. J. DeWolf, General Counsel, Legal Department, Nationale Bank van België/Banque National de Belgique (Belgium) |
| 09:30-10:00 |
(2) Decentralisation and specialisation in the Eurosystem en Mr. E. de Lhôneux, Secretary General, Head of Department, Secretariat General, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg (Luxembourg) |
| 10:00-10:30 | (3) Operations: monetary policy, payments systems and foreign exchange management en Mr. J. Priego, Head of the Legal Department, Legal Department, Banco de España (Spain) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
(4) Financial stability and prudential supervision en Mr. F. Elderson, Director Legal Services Division, Legal Department, De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherlands) |
| 11:30-12:00 |
(5) Infrastructures for the euro markets 1.09 MB en Mr. M. Perassi, Head of Legal Department, Legal Department, Banca d’Italia (Italy) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Discussion |
| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 |
Module 4. External dimension of EMU Chair: Ms. M. Nieminen, Legal Counsel, Legal Affairs, Suomen Pankki (Finland) |
| 14:30-15:15 |
(1) International representation of EMU: Roles of the Council of the EU, the European Commission and the ECB; external representation of the Eurosystem; IMF;Technical assistance
en, Presentation .
en, Paper Mr. R. Smits, Jean Monnet Professor of the Law of the Economic and Monetary Union, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| 15:15-16:00 |
(2) Other monetary unions: are there lessons to be learned from our experience? en Mr. A. Sáinz de Vicuña, General Counsel, European Central Bank |
| 16:00-16:30 | Closing discussion and end of conference |
Cultural programme for conference participants: tour of the Museum of Money & tour of the City of Frankfurt, ending with a luncheon (optional)
| Conference dates | Thursday, 29 January – Friday, 30 January 2009 |
| Conference location | European Central Bank, Eurotower – Conference room CIV Kaiserstrasse 29, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Tel.: +49 69 1344 0, Fax: +49 69 1344 6000 E-mail: info@ecb.europa.eu; www.ecb.europa.eu |
| Cultural programme | Saturday, 31 January 2009 (optional)
Tour of the Museum of Money and tour of the City of Frankfurt, ending with a luncheon |
| Conference language | English |
| Conference organisation | ECB Directorate General Legal Services Leggroupst@ecb.europa.eu Fax: +49 (0) 69 1344 7198 ECB Directorate Communications, Publishing, Events and Protocol Division evp-events@ecb.europa.eu Tel.: + 49 (0) 69 1344 7523 |
