Second Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Final Program

Monday, June 17, 2013

• Welcome and Introduction into the Meeting
  • 9:00 – 10:00 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
  • 10:00 – 10:15 : Welcome Address and Introduction to the Meeting
    • Joëlle Jenny, Director for Security Policy and Conflict Prevention, European External Action Service – Directorate K
    • Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
• 1. Session: Regional Proliferation Challenges and Options for the EU
  • 10:15 – 11:15 : The illicit spread of SALW in areas of weak and fragile statehood, especially MENA
    • Chair: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
    • Speaker: Patrick McCarthy, United Nations Coordinating Action on Small Arms
    • Comment: Roy Isbister, Saferworld
  • 11:15 – 12:15 : Implementing the EU Common Position on arms exports: challenges and options
    • Chair: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
    • Speaker: Sibylle Bauer, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
    • Comment: Nils Duquet, Flemish Peace Institute
  • 12:15 – 13:45 : Lunch
  • 13:45 – 15:45 : The European Union and programmes of key proliferation concern
    • Chair: Benjamin Hautecouverture, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
    • Speaker (North Korea): Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies
  • 15:45 – 16:15 : Coffee Break
  • 16:15 – 18:00 : Syria’s multiple proliferation challenges and the European Union’s options
    • Chair: Erzsébet Rózsa, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs
    • Speaker: Dina Esfandiary, International Institute for Strategic Studies
    • Comment: Jean Pascal Zanders, Director, The Trench

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

• 2. Session: Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • 9:00 – 10:15 : Reflections on the CWC Review Outcome and the BTWC Intersessional Process
    • Chair: Giorgio Franceschini, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
    • Speaker (CWC): Alexander Kelle, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
    • Speaker (BTWC): Una Becker-Jakob, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
  • 10:15 – 11:30 : Options to Facilitate the CTBT Entry into Force
    • Chair: Giorgio Franceschini, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
    • Speaker: Rebecca Johnson, Acronym Institute
    • Comment: Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
  • 11:30 – 12:00 : Coffee break
• 3. Session: Space and Missiles
  • 12:00 – 13:15 : The Hague Code of Conduct and the EU Space Code of Conduct: long-term challenges and cross-cutting issues
    • Chair: Ambassador Carlo Trezza, Chairman Designate of MTCR
    • Speaker: Lucia Marta, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
    • Comment: Max Mutschler, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
  • 13:15 – 14:45 : Lunch
• 4. Session: EU WMD Policies
  • 14:45 – 16:15 : The EU WMD Strategy after ten years: a critical appraisal and options for amendment (Panel discussion)
    • Chair: Camille Grand, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
    • Panelists: Ian Anthony, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
    •  Łukasz Kulesa, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
    •  Gerrard Quille, European Parliament
  • 16:15 – 16:30 : Further development of the network
    • Speaker: Camille Grand, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
  • Closing of the meeting
    • Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
    • Jacek Bylica, Principal Adviser and Special Envoy for Non-proliferation and Disarmament, European External Action Service