The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is proud to announce the conference on Environmental Democracy.

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

Environmental Democracy Conference

 

Date: 19th October, 2012, Friday

Venue: PázmányPéterCatholicUniversity, Hall John-Paul II (1088 Budapest, Szentkirályi u. 28., 2nd floor)

 

9.50 – 10.00 Opening: Prof. Balázs Schanda, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

 

Morning session:

Chair: Attila Pánovics, assistant professor, University Pécs, Faculty of Law

• 10.00 - 10.30 Prof. Gerd Winter (Forschungsstelle für Europäisches Umweltrecht, University of Bremen): Theoretical foundations of public participation
• 10.30 – 11.00. Prof. Gyula Bándi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence): Sustainable development and environmental rights
• 11.00 – 11.30 Prof. Marcel Szabó (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, EU Law Chair): The relationship of international and EU legal requirements related to public participation with an emphasis on international law
• 11.30 – 12.00 Prof. Jerzy Jendroska (Opole University, Member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee): Public participation under the Aarhus Convention: key legal issues and challenges in implementation
• 12.00 – 12.30 Ms. Márta Szigeti Bonifert (Executive Director, Regional Environmental Center - partner institution): Promoting public participation beyond the EU – the road to environmental democracy
• 12.30 – 13.00 Dr. Benedek Jávor (Research Fellow, Pázmány Péter Catholic University; Chairman of the Committee of Sustainable Development, Hungarian Parliament): Why or why not to participate? - Some social and political considerations of public participation

 

Afternoon session:

Chair: Prof. Gyula Bándi

• 14.00 – 14.30 Dr. Eva Kruzikova (EU Commission, MIME team, Principal lawyer): The experiences and problems of implementing EU legal requirements related to public participation
• 14.30 – 15.00 Prof. Yvonne Scannell (Law School, Trinity College Dublin): Experiences with extensive citizen participation, enforcement and access to justice– the good and the bad
• 15.00 – 15.30 Dr. Csaba Kiss (Director, Environmental Management and Law Association - partner institution): Problems, questions of public interest litigation in Hungary and in the CEE region
• 15.30 – 16.00 Prof. Verena Madner (Department of Socioeconomics – WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business): More than the usual suspects. Public participation and Access to justice in Austria
• 16.00 – 16.30 Dr. Sándor Fülöp (Former Deputy Commissioner of Fundamental Rights Responsible for the Rights of Future Generations (former Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations – partner institution): The rights and interests of future generations and the Hungarian attempts to represent and protect them
• 16.30 – 17.00 Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence research staff: Some specific issues of public participation within EU law

 

17.00 – 18.00 Discussion

 

The conference is supported by the European Commission under the Jean Monnet program.