Chairman: Rupert Wolff, Vice-President of the Austrian Bar Association, Chairman of CCBE PECO Committee

09.00 - 09.45     Registration of participants

10.00 - 10.30     Welcome address

• Bernard Vatier, CCBE President
• Georghe Amihalachioaie, President of the Moldovan Bar Association

 10.30 - 11.00     CCBE - Europe - Moldova

Chairman: Rupert Wolff, Vice-President of the Austrian Bar Association, Chairman of CCBE PECO Committee

• CCBE: role and activities
  Speaker: Bernard Vatier, CCBE President
• Europa - Moldova
  Speakers:
  • Marianne Mikko, Member of the European Parliament, Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Chairwoman (Estonia)
  • Fiona Mc Lean, Head of the European Commission Tacis Branch Office in Moldov [speech sent to the CCBE but not presented at the conference]

• Discussion 

11.00 - 13.00     Theme 1: Access to Justice

Chairman: Calin-Andrei Zamfirescu, President of Romanian Bar Association, Member of CCBE Moldova task force

• Access to Justice
  Speaker: David Dolidze, Administrator, Private Law Department, DG I Legal Affairs, Council of Europe
• Legal aid in Europe
  Speaker: Marcin Radwan-Röhrenschef, Member of the CCBE Legal Aid Working Group (Poland)
• Legal aid in Moldova
  Speakers:
  • Victor Muntaneu, Soros Moldova Foundation
  • Corinne Smith, ABA CEELI
  • Tatiana Vizdoaga, Member of the Moldovan Bar and Chief of the State University Bar

• Discussion

13.00 - 14.30     LUNCH

14.30 - 17.00     Theme 2: The lawyer and the state

Chairman: Jeroen H. Brouwer, Immediate Past President of the Netherlands Bar Association, Member of CCBE Moldova task force

• The concept of an independent lawyer
  Speaker: David Keating, Co-Chairman of the CCBE PECO Committee (United Kingdom)
• The administration of justice: the lawyer, the courts and the police
  Speakers:
  • Ministry of Justice and Minister of Interior of the Republic of Moldova (tbc)
  • Wojciech Hermelinski, Member of the CCBE Moldova task force (Poland)

• Discussion

17.00 - 17.30     Conclusion

19.00                 Dinner (registration required)

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