Programme

		Celebration of 20 years of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities 25 September 2009
		From 20 to 2020 Building the CFI of tomorrow on solid foundations

Programme

10:00 :
Welcome speeches
Mr Vassilios Skouris, President of the Court of Justice, and Mr Marc Jaeger , President of the Court of First Instance
(Main Courtroom of the original Palais of the Court of Justice)

10:30 - 12:30 :
Workshops
(Courtrooms of the original Palais of the Court of Justice)

Workshop 'Quality of Justice'	Workshop 'Access to Justice'
Workshop chairman : Jean-Marc Sauvé (Vice-President of the French Conseil d'État) Theme : Quality of justice - Quality criteria	Workshop chairman : Jürgen Schwarze (Professor at Freiburg University) Theme : Access to the courts under the rule of law
Speaker : Georges Ravarani (President of the Administrative Court of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)	Speaker : Mario Siragusa (Lawyer, Rome)
Speaker : Péter Paczolay (President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court)	Speaker : Josef Bejček (Professor at Brno University)
Speaker : Marc Pittie (Lawyer, Brussels)	Speaker : Alice Guimaraes-Purokoski (Director of the European litigation unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland)

14:30 - 16:00 :
Continuation of the proceedings
(Courtrooms of the original Palais of the Court of Justice)

Workshop 'Quality of Justice'	Workshop 'Access to Justice'
Main speaker : Anthony M. Collins (Barrister, Dublin) Theme : The time factor in proceedings	Main speaker : Paul Lasok (Barrister, London) Theme : Nature of judicial control
Speaker : Carlos J. Moreiro González (Professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid)	Speaker : Clemens Jabloner (President of the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court)
Speaker : Anna Falk (Agent of the Government representing Sweden before the Court of Justice)	Speaker : Luis Miguel Pais Antunes (Lawyer, Lisbon)

16:30 - 17:15 :
Joint meeting of the two workshops
Presentation of the proceedings by the rapporteurs
(Main Courtroom of the original Palais of the Court of Justice)

• Workshop 'Quality of Justice'  
  Rapporteur :
  Onno Brouwer (Lawyer, Amsterdam, and President of the CCBE delegation to the Court of Justice)
    
• Workshop 'Access to Justice'
  Rapporteur :
  Lembit Uibo (Director of the Community litigation Division at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

18:00 :
Formal closing session in the presence of HRH Grand Duke Henri and HRH Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume
Speeches :

Mr François Biltgen , Minister for Justice of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Mr Jean-Luc Dehaene , Member of the European Parliament

Mr Marc Jaeger , President of the Court of First Instance
(Main Courtroom of the original Palais of the Court of Justice)