Agenda
Please find details of the provisional conference agenda below
Please note, speakers to be confirmed are marked with an asterix
For more information about the the event, please contact Kirstie Fagan on +44 2920783026 or kirstie.fagan@forum-europe.com
Tuesday 1 March, 2011
Morning
08:30 – 09:15
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:15 – 09:40
Opening Keynote Presentation
Frank Hoffmeister,
Deputy Head of Cabinet, Commissioner de Gucht,
European Commission
09:40 – 11:10
Session 1: Overcoming increasing pressures on the planet’s key resources
Europe is facing tough global competition for the supplies of the raw materials that fuel its manufacturing industries, with availability increasingly under pressure. Is Europe’s Raw Materials Initiative providing an adequate response to this crisis, and does the Commission’s recent communication sufficiently address the challenges that still remain? How dependent are European companies on raw materials from outside the EU and from some of the most unstable regions of the world? Is the world beginning to run out of some of the more industrially important minerals and how level is the playing field for access to minerals? What policy measures can be taken to overcome supply risks and to ensure continued access for European companies to ‘critical’ raw materials?
Moderated by:
Judith Merkies MEP,
Member,
European Parliament
09:40 – 09:55
Introductory Keynote Presentation
Teresa Presas,
Chair,
Alliance for a Competitive European Industry
09:45 – 11:00
Panel Discussion
Gwenole Cozigou,
Director, Chemicals, Metals, Mechanical, Electrical and Construction Industries; Raw materials, DG ENTR,
European Commission
Bogdan Baltazar,
Financial Consultant,
Anthony Cox,
Head of Economy and Environment Integration Division,
OECD
Wulf-Peter Schmidt,
Manager, Sustainability,
Ford - Vehicle Environmental Engineering
11:10 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Session 2: Balancing sustainability and access to raw materials
Industry today is faced with the challenge of balancing the need for finding raw materials that are relatively cheap and easy to access with the EU’s desire to ensure that the environment, health and safety aspects of the extraction and processing of materials will be assured. Can the EU continue to source competitively priced raw materials whilst maintaining a leadership role in sustainability issues such as recycling and sustainable mining and processing? How can the EU help to foster a sound investment climate that helps increase sustainable supplies of raw materials? Is technology beginning to create new composite materials as substitutes, or is the runaway growth of some new technologies now aggravating shortages of essential minerals and rare earths? How can the EU encourage increased recycling and research into substituting and improving resource efficiency? What measures can be taken to help ensure sustainable supplies of valuable secondary raw materials for Europe?
Moderated by:
Christian Egenhofer,
Senior Research Fellow,
CEPS
11:30 – 11:45
Introductory Keynote Presentation
Christian Hagelüken,
Head of Business Development & Market Research, Precious Metals Refining Unit,
Umicore
11:45 – 13:00
Panel Discussion
Renzo Tomellini,
Head of Unit - Added-Value Materials,
DG RTD, European Commission
Reinhard Bütikofer MEP,
Member,
European Parliament
Kevin Bradley,
President,
The Nickel Institute
Raymond Van Ermen,
Executive Director,
European Partners for the Environment
Afternoon
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Session 3: Co-operation not conflict: how can we head-off the possibility of global “resource wars”?
How real are the dangers of “resource wars” of either a commercial or military nature and what needs to be done politically to head off these risks? What rules should be applied to those industrial competitors that refuse to respect environmental rules or human rights when buying or extracting raw materials? How best should the WTO deal with these issues and do the present good governance rules and guidelines go far enough to ensure responsible behaviour by the extraction industries? How can Europe’s policymakers continue to foster bilateral co-operation with external countries in line with development policies, whilst also helping industries in the EU to enjoy continued access to raw materials?
Moderated by:
Daniel Caspary MEP,
Member,
European Parliament
14:30 – 14:45
Introductory Keynote Presentation
Rufus Yerxa,
Deputy Director-General,
World Trade Organisation
14:45 – 16:00
Panel Discussion
Peter Klein,
Head of Unit - Industrial Sectors, DG TRADE,
European Commission
Mogens Peter Carl,
Senior Advisor,
Kreab Gavin Anderson
Ambassador Ali Mchumo,
Managing Director,
Common Fund for Commodities
John Mair,
General Manager,
Greenland Minerals
Craig Maclachlan,
Minister and Deputy Head of Mission ,
Australian Mission to the European Union
16:00 – 16:15
Final Questions & End of Conference
Logistics
When
Tuesday 1 March, 2011
08.30 to 16.15
CET
Where
Rue du Chatelain 17
1000
Brussels
Tel: +32 (0) 2 646 00 55
Fax: +32 (0) 2 646 00 88
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