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To mark the official launch of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area), Charlie McCreevy (Internal Market and Services Commissioner, European Commission), Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell (Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank) and Gerard Hartsink (Chairman, European Payments Council) are organising this high-level event with distinguished guests from the EU payments market.
Venue:
Charlemagne Building
Rue de la Loi 170
Brussels, Belgium
| 18.00 – 18.05 | Welcome Jörgen Holmquist (Director General, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission) |
| 18.05 – 18.30 | Speeches Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell (Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank – ECB) en Charlie McCreevy (Commissioner, European Commission) en Gerard Hartsink (Chair, European Payments Council – EPC) en |
| 18.30 – 19.15 | High-level panel discussion Chair: Jean-Michel Godeffroy (Director General, Payments and Market Infrastructure, European Central Bank – ECB) en Panel representatives: Michel Pébereau (Chair, European Banking Federation – EBF & Chairman, BNP Paribas) en Jean-Paul Gauzès (Rapporteur of the Payment Services Directive, Member of the European Parliament) en Rasmus Kjeldahl (President, European Consumers' Organisation – BEUC) en Christopher Pleister (President, European Association of Cooperative Banks – EACB) en Peter Nyberg (Director General, Ministry of Finance, Finland) en Heinrich Haasis (President, European Savings Banks Group – ESBG) en Oliver Brissaud (Chairman, European Associations of Corporate Treasurers – EACT) en Henning Kagermann (CEO, Business Software Solutions Applications and Services – SAP) |
| 19.15 – 19.20 |
Conclusions Žiga Lavrič (State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Slovenia) en |
| 19.20 – 19.30 |
Press point |
| 19.20 |
Cocktail |
