Technical Programme

Friday, 13 April 2012Salzburg Congress (Europa-Saal)
08:15Registration of participants and admission
09:00

Opening

Michael Umfahrer
President of the Austrian Notarial Academy

Wilfried Haslauer
Deputy Governor of the Province of Salzburg

Tilman Götte
President of the Council of Notariats of the European Union (CNUE)

Evelyn Regner
Member of the European Parliament, Vice-chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, European Parliament

Ludwig Bittner
President of the Austrian Chamber of Civil-Law Notaries

Viviane Reding (to be confirmed)
Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship

Beatrix Karl
Federal Minister of Justice

09:45

Citizens and the Law - A European Challenge.

Erhard Busek
Former Vice-Chancellor and former minister for science and education, Head of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna (A)

10:15-10:45Coffee Break
10:45

EU Citizenship, a new driver for juridical policy?

Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson
University Panthéon-Assas, Paris (F)

Followed by a panel debate:

Christian Baldus
Institute of Legal Science History, Ruprecht-Karl-University Heidelberg (D)

Christine Doerner
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Luxemburg Parliament, civil-law notary (L)

Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson
University Panthéon-Assas, Paris (F)

Eva Lichtenberger
Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels (F/B)

General debate & summary

12:15-13:00Buffet lunch
13:00

European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Perspectives for the preventive administration of the law by notaries.

Verica Trstenjak
Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxemburg (L)

Followed by a panel debate :

Michael Lunzer
Vice-president of the Chamber of Civil-Law Notaries for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, civil-law notary, Vienna (A)

Niraj Nathwani
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna (A)

Walter H. Rechberger
Head of Department of Civil Procedure and head of Department of the Research Institute for Legal Policy/Development, Vienna University (A)

Verica Trstenjak
Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxemburg (L)

General debate & summary

14:30-15:00

Coffee break

15:00European citizens and their rights: Legal certainty without borders ?

Rembert Süss
German Notary Institute, Würzburg (D)

Followed by a panel debate :

Christoph Beer
Civil-law notary, Vienna (A)

Erhard Busek
Former Vice-Chancellor and former minister for science and education, Head of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna (A)

Antonio López-Istúriz White
Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels (F/B) (to be confirmed)

Rembert Süss
German Notary Institute, Würzburg (D)

Alexandra Thein
Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg/Brussels (F/B)

NN/Representative of the European Commission

Directorate-General Justice (to be confirmed)

General debate & summary

16:30Final summary

NN/Representative of the European Commission

Directorate-General Justice (to be confirmed)

Conclusion:

Michael Umfahrer
President of the Austrian Notarial Academy

approx. 17:00

End of meeting

Moderation
Benedikt Kommenda
Die Presse, Vienna (A)

Simultaneous translation: German, English, French


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