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Third Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
3 October 2014 - 4 October 2014
Final Program
The Third Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium took place on 3 and 4 November in Brussels. It continues the series of European expert meetings, which started in 2011 with the so-called Kick-off Meeting and was followed by the Second Consultative Meeting in 2013. Both events took place under the Council Decision 2010/799/CFSP.
The aim of the consultative meetings is to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of views on non-proliferation and disarmament matters for European experts, researchers, academics and practitioners.
The Third Consultative Meeting took place under the Council Decision 2014/129/CFSP and will be followed by a fourth and fifth meeting in 2015 and 2016, respectively. The meeting was attended by 91 participants coming from the External Action Service (15), other EU Institutions (4), the EU Member States (28), International Organizations (1), the EU think tanks and the EU academic world (40), as well as from three independent experts from Norway (1) and Switzerland (2).
20 EU Member states were represented by (at least) one official delegate at the meeting. It was the highest number of EU MS at the consultative meetings, so far. Also the new EU Member Croatia sent one delegate from the capital.
Monday, November 3, 2014
- Welcome and Introduction into the Meeting
- 9:30 – 10:30 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
- 10:30 – 10:15 : Welcome and Introduction to the Meeting
- Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
- Jacek Bylica, European External Action Service (EEAS)
- Session 1 Repercussions of the Ukraine Crisis
- 10:45 – 12:30 : Chair/ Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
- Implications of the Ukraine crisis on the nuclear non-proliferation regime
- Speaker: Łukasz Kulesa, European Leadership Network (ELN)
- Challenges for the global arms control regime and cooperative security with Russia
- Speaker: Jiří Schneider, Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI)
- Speaker: Paolo Foradori, University of Trento
- Session 2: Controlling Unconventional and Conventional Arms in the Middle East and in North Africa (MENA)
- 14:00 – 15:30 : Light at the end of the tunnel? The Syrian chemical weapon programme and the Iranian nuclear dossier
- Chair: Erzsébet Rózsa, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA)
- Speaker (Syria, CW): Ralf Trapp, Independent Consultant
- Speaker (Iran, E3+3): Dina Esfandiary, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
- 16:00 – 17:30 : Tracking the flow of conventional weapons to state and non-state actors in MENA
- Chair: Thanos Dokos, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
- Speaker (EU arms transfers): Jan Grebe, Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC)
- Speaker (spread of arms to non-state actors): Ali Arbia, Small Arms Survey
- 14:00 – 15:30 : Light at the end of the tunnel? The Syrian chemical weapon programme and the Iranian nuclear dossier
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
- Session 3: Arms Control Issues for the European Union
- 9:30 – 10:45 : Implementation of the EU SALW Strategy in the light of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
- Chair: An Vranckx, Group de recherche et d’ information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP)
- Speaker: Nils Duquet, Flemish Peace Institute
- Comment: Lina Grip, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- 11:15 – 12:30 : Ensuring a successful outcome of the 2015 NPT Review Conference: steps to an EU Common Position
- Chair: Tom Sauer, University of Antwerp
- Speaker: Tarja Cronberg, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
- Comment: Camille Grand, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)
- 9:30 – 10:45 : Implementation of the EU SALW Strategy in the light of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
- Session 4: Emerging Issues in Arms Control
- 14:00 – 15:15 : Lethal autonomous weapons (“killer robots”) and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): is it time for an EU Common Position?
- Chair: Nicholas Marsh, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
- Speaker: Noel Sharkey, International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC)
- Speaker: Milena Costas Trascasas, Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights
- Comment: Niklas Schörnig, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
- 15:45 – 17:00 : Rapid advances in biotechnology and chemistry and their challenge to the BWC and CWC regime
- Chair: John Hart, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- Speaker (bio): Caitríona McLeish, University of Sussex
- Speaker (chem): Michael Crowley, University of Bradford
- Comment: Richard Guthrie, CBW Events
- 14:00 – 15:15 : Lethal autonomous weapons (“killer robots”) and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): is it time for an EU Common Position?
- 17:00 – 17:15 : Closing of the meeting
- Joëlle Jenny, European External Action Service (EEAS)
- Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
