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Workshop 1
Direct tax rules and the EU fundamental freedoms: origin and scope
of the problem; national and Community responses and solutions
General Rapporteur: Paul Farmer is a Barrister at
Pump Court Tax Chambers, London, where he practises in the field
of EU single market law, with a particular emphasis on EU tax law.
Recent ECJ cases include Kretztechnik, the Marks & Spencer group
relief case, the Losses Group Litigation (GLO), ACT GLOs, FII GLO,Thin
Cap GLO and CFC GLO. Before entering practice at the Bar, Paul Farmer
worked as an EU official and held posts as Legal Secretary to Advocate
General Jacobs at the ECJ and Head of Direct Taxation at the European
Commission. He holds visiting academic posts at Queen Mary College,
London, and the University of Bologna.
Community Rapporteur: Dennis Weber (1970),is a professor of European Corporate Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is in charge of the international aspects of the research and European tax legislation research that has been accommodated at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) of the UvA. As a visting professor, he teaches the European Tax Studies course at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, at the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam) and at the International Tax Center of Leiden (LL.M Program in International Taxation). As a tax lawyer, he is affiliated with Loyens & Loeff, where he is in charge of the European tax law team. As part of his duties, he is involved in numerous proceedings in the field of European tax law for Dutch courts and the European Court of Justice (such as the Verkooijen and the D-case), as well as acting as a consultant, mainly to multinational organisations.
Weber is the author of a book entitled ‘Tax avoidance and the EC treaty freedoms’ (2005), and has published more than 30 articles on European fiscal law in national and international professional journals, such as the Weekblad Fiscaal Recht (Tax Law Weekly), FED Fiscaal weekblad (FED Tax Weekly), European Taxation, EC Tax Review and Intertax. He is also the author of more than 150 published columns about taxes in a number of Dutch newspapers. Weber is coordinator of the International and European Tax Law course of the Nederlandse Orde van Belastingadviseurs (NOB, Netherlands Association of Tax Lawyers) and a member of the NOB’s European tax law section. He is also a member of the European Tax Law Group, an independent group of tax lawyers focusing on European tax law. Weber is a deputy judge at the Den Bosch Court of Appeal, where he is primarily involved in cases related to European tax law.
Coordinator: Panikos N. Tsiailis, Partner, Leader Tax & Legal Services, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Workshop 2
State Aid: The effective application of EU state aid procedures:
From a plan to grant aid to the recovery of illegal aid - the role
of national law and practice
General Rapporteur: Paul F. Nemitz, is Head of Legal Affairs at DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs of the European Commission. Formerly a Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Nielson and of the Legal Service of the Commission, he has represented the Commission in litigation on numerous state aid cases and other subjects before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of First Instance. His extensive publications include "La protection du justiciable dans le droit des aides d'état et la responsibalité globale d'ordre constitutionnel du Tribunal de première instance", presented at the colloquium for the 10th anniversary of the Court of First Instance (published in: Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Le Tribunal de première instance des Communautés européennes 1989 - 1999, Luxembourg 2000). Before joining the European Commission, Nemitz was a teaching assistant at the University of Hamburg, where he studied and was admitted to the bar. He also holds degrees in Comparative Law from Strasbourg University and the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Community Rapporteur: Francisco Enrique Gonzàlez Díaz is since October 2003, a partner in Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP, based in the Brussels office. Prior joining the firm,
Mr Gonzàlez Díaz held a number of positions within the European
Institutions. Between 1998 and 2003, he headed one of the enforcement
units of the European Commission’s Merger Task Force and led
the European Commission in its review of a number of large and complex
cases in a wide array of market sectors. He also represented the
European Commission in a number of important legislative projects
relating to mergers and acquisitions and the application of Articles
81 and 82 EC. Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Gonzàlez Díaz clerked for
Judge Garcia Valdecasas at the European Court of First Instance
in Luxembourg. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Gonzàlez Díaz was a member
of the European Commission’s Legal Service. His responsibilities
included providing legal advice to the European Commission before
the European Courts in Luxembourg in a significant number of cases
on a wide range of issues arising under the EC Tready. He was a
lecturer in Private International Law at the University of Alicante
from 1985 to 1989. He has law degrees from the University of Granada,
the Free University of Brussels and Harvard University.
Coordinator: Judge C.W.A Timmermans, President of the second
chamber, European Court of Justice.
Workshop 3
External Relations of the EU and the Member States: Competence,
Mixed Agreements, International Responsibility, and Effects of International
Law
General Rapporteur: Professor Piet Eeckhout is a Professor
of European Law at King’s College London since 1998, and directs
the Centre of European Law. He is an associate academic member of
Matrix Chambers, London. Before joining King’s he held academic
positions at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels (Belgium), and
worked in the Chambers of Advocate General Jacobs, European Court
of Justice (1994-1998). His academic interests and activities cover
many different areas of EU law, including external relations, the
internal market, state aid, judicial protection, the constitutionalization
process, and fundamental rights protection. He is also very active
in the field of international economic law, in particular WTO law.
He is editor, with Prof Tridimas, of the Yearbook of European Law
(Oxford University Press) and is the author of External Relations
of the European Union – Legal and Constitutional Foundations
(Oxford EC Law Library, Oxford University Press 2004) and of The
European Internal Market and International Trade – A Legal
Analysis (Oxford University Press 1994).
Community Rapporteur: Marise Cremona holds, since
January 2006 the Chair of European Law at the European University
Institute, Florence. Formerly, she was Professor of European Commercial
Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University
of London. She has had many years' experience of teaching and writing
on European Union law, specializing in the external relations law
of the EU and the European Internal Market. Marise Cremona has a
particular interest in the relationships between the EU and its
near neighbours, including the countries of central and eastern
Europe, the western Balkans and the emerging economies of the former
Soviet Union. She is particularly interested in legal integration
within the wider dimension of the EU's external relations and the
foundational constitutional dimension to EU commercial policy and
external policy more generally. She has acted as consultant on European
integration for governments including Romania, Cyprus, Croatia and
Ukraine. Marise Cremona is editor of a series of textbooks published
by Palgrave, the EC law editor for Goode, Consumer Credit Law and
Practice (Butterworths) and is on the Advisory Board of the European
Foreign Affairs Review.
Coordinator: Dr. Kypros Chysostomides, Member of the House of Representatives, Member of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs.
Plenary Session
Debate and Discussion on Justice and Home Affairs
Chair of the Panel: Vassilios Skouris, President of
the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Born 1948; graduated
in law from the Free University, Berlin (1970); awarded doctorate
in constitutional and administrative law at Hamburg University (1973);
Assistant Professor at Hamburg University (1972-77); Professor of
Public Law at Bielefeld University (1978); Professor of Public Law
at the University of Thessaloniki (1982); Minister of Internal Affairs
(1989 and 1996); Member of the Administrative Board of the University
of Crete (1983-87); Director of the Centre for International and
European Economic Law, Thessaloniki (from 1997); President of the
Greek Association for European Law (1992-94); Member of the Greek
National Research Committee (1993-95); Member of the Higher Selection
Board for Greek Civil Servants (1994-96); Member of the Academic
Council of the Academy of European Law, Trier (from 1995); Member
of the Administrative Board of the Greek National Judges' College
(1995-96); Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (1997-99); President of the Greek Economic and Social
Council in 1998; Judge at the Court of Justice since 8 June 1999;
President of the Court of Justice since 7 October 2003
Member of Panel: Christos Artemides President of the
Supreme Court of Cyprus. Born in Nicosia on 15 January 1941. After
completing his secondary education at the Pancyprian Gymnasium,
he studied law at Lincoln’s Inn, London, and became barrister.
He then followed a course leading to a diploma in Public International
Law. After completing his service in the National Guard, he practised
as an advocate in the private sector from 1966 to 1972. He was elected
General Secretary of the Cyprus Bar Association, a post he held
until his appointment as District Judge on 10 January 1972. On 15
October 1980 he was promoted to Senior District Judge and on 1 January
1982 to District Court President. On 12 November 1988 he was appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court and on 1 March 2004 President of the
Supreme Court. Christos C. Artemides is literary writer. He mostly
writes poetry. His first poetry book ‘Paratirisis’ 1983
was awarded first prize by the National Association of Literary
Writers, and his second ‘Metathesis’ 1985 received a
prize by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and
Culture. Other works: ‘Pafsi’ 1990, ‘Erminia’
1995 and ‘Apo to Psaltiri’ 2003. He is also painting
and has presented his work in two private exhibitions. Since his
appointment as a President of the Supreme Court of the Cyprus Republic,
he has represented the judiciary in many international conferences,
seminars and official functions.
Member of Panel: Michel Petite, Director-General,
Legal Service, European Commission.
Michel Petite studied law at the Paris University (1965–1972)
and qualified at the Paris Bar in 1973. He practised in a law-firm
and was Lecturer of Law from 1973 to 1979. He joined the European
Commission in 1979, and occupied since then a number of assignments:
company law and accounting harmonisation (1979–1984); Cabinet
of the Commissioner Lord Cockfield, where he is in charge of the
Internal Market program, then VAT harmonisation (1985-1989); set
up the new European Merger Regulation (1990); Legal Advisor to J.
Delors, President of the Commission (1991-1995); Director for the
negotiation of the Amsterdam Treaty (1995-1997); a sabbatical year
of teaching at Harvard; Director of State Aids in the Competition
services (1998-1999); Chief Advisor, then Head of Cabinet of the
President of the European Commission R. Prodi (1999-2001); since
June 2001, Director General of the Legal Service of the European
Commission, his present function.
Member of Panel: Allan Rosas, President of the Third
Chamber, European Court of Justice.
Born 1948; Doctor of Laws (1977) of the University of Turku (Finland); Professor of Law at the University of Turku (1978-81) and at the Abo Akademi University (Turku/Åbo) (1981-96); Director of the latter’s Institute for Human Rights (1985-95); various international and national academic positions of responsibility and memberships of learned societies; coordinated several international and national research projects and programmes, including in the fields of EU law, international law, humanitarian and human rights law, constitutional law and comparative public administration; represented the Finnish Government as member of, or adviser to, Finnish delegations at various international conferences and meetings; expert functions in relation to Finnish legal life, including in governmental law commissions and committees of the Finnish Parliament, as well as the UN, UNESCO, OSCE (CSCE) and the Council of Europe; from 1995 Principal Legal Adviser at the Legal Service of the European Commission, in charge of external relations; from March 2001, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission Legal Service; Judge at the Court of Justice since 17 January 2002.
Note: Further members of Panel to be announced
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