REGISTRATION

Due to limited space, only one person per European organisation can participate. Please register online  by 30 June 2015. For questions please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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DRAFT AGENDA

8.30-9.00 Registration and coffee

9.00-9.20 OPENING SESSION

Moderator: Riccardo PRIORE, Coordinator of the Turin process, Department of the European Social Charter, Council of Europe

• European Economic and Social Committee (tbc)

• Anna RURKA, President of the Council of Europe’s INGOs Conference

• Jana HAINSWORTH, President of Social Platform

• Jean-François AKANDJI-KOMBÉ, General Coordinator of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights

9.20-11.30 SESSION I

THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER’S COLLECTIVE COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

Session I will provide updated information on the abovementioned procedure in the framework of the normative system of the Charter and its implementation, also in relation to other international instruments / procedures dealing with fundamental social rights at the international level. Opportunity will be given for questions and answers during the session.

Chair: Anna RURKA, President of the Council of Europe’s INGOs Conference

Implementation of the Collective Complaints Procedure in the framework of the normative system of the European Social Charter and the related case-law of the European Committee of Social Rights

• Riccardo PRIORE and Karin LUKAS, Member of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe

Dutch experiences with the proceedings and decisions adopted by the European Committee of Social Rights

• Roeland BÖCKER, Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights,  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

10.10-11.00 Discussion, initiated by Jean-François AKANDJI-KOMBÉ

Towards an enhanced implementation of the Collective Complaints Procedure: a key objective of the ‘Turin process’

• Michele NICOLETTI, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, General Rapporteur of the High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter (Turin, 17-18 October 2014)

11.30-12.00 Networking break

12.00-13.30 & 14.30-16.00 SESSION II

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES AMONG INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE COLLECTIVE COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE
Session II will take place in the form of two consecutive sets of two parallel workshops: workshops 1 & 2 will take place from 12.00 to 13.30; workshops 3 & 4 will take place after the lunch break (13.30 – 14.30), from 14.30 to 16.00. All workshops will focus on different themes, and specific provisions of the European Social Charter. In this context, selected INGOs will share the experience gathered with respect of the Collective Complaints Procedure. The themes of the workshops will be tailored to reflect the issues raised by INGOs when they register.

16.00-16.30 Networking break

16.30-17.30 SESSION III

FROM INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION TO CONCRETE ACTION
Session III will consist of an exchange between representatives of INGOs and experts of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC), moderated by the Coordinator of ANESC with the assistance of the workshops’ moderators. It will focus on concrete issues related to the implementation of the Collective Complaints Procedure still to be discussed, worked out or clarified following the information, exchanges, examples provided and debated during Session I & II.

17.30-18.00 CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Jana HAINSWORTH, President of Social Platform

• Anna RURKA, President of the Council of Europe’s INGOs Conference

18.00-19.00 Reception