COLLOQUIES, SEMINARS, FORUMS

Chamber of Regions

CPR/CONF/ HELSINGBORG (2006) 1 prov
13 April 2006

Seminar on regionalisation and regional self-government in Sweden 

Helsingborg (Sweden), 12 May 2006

DRAFT PROGRAMME

9:00- 9:30 Registration of participants

9:30-9:50 Opening session

§ Opening speech by Uno Aldegren, President of the Executive Board, Region Skåne (Sweden)
§ Opening speech by Yavuz Mildon (Turkey), President of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of the Council of Europe

9:50 -10:50 Congress report and Recommendation 163 (2005) on local and regional democracy in Sweden

Chair: Uno Aldegren, President of the Executive Board, Region Skåne (Sweden)
§ Presentation of the report by Karsten Behr (Germany), Vice-President of the Institutional Committee of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of the Council of Europe, and Prof John Loughlin (Ireland), Member of the Group of independent experts on the European Charter of local self-government

10:50-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Congress report and Recommendation 163 (2005) on local and regional democracy in Sweden – continuation

§ Comments on the report by Ph.D. Torbjörn Larsson (Sweden), University of Stockholm Department of Political Science, and Lennart Nilsson (Sweden), University of Gothenburg

§ The view of Region Skåne on the report by Ms. Monika Yngvesson, Director Regional Development, Region Skåne (Sweden)

12:00-13:45 Lunch, Dunkers Kulturhus, Host Ms. Carin Wredström, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee, Helsingborg

13:45-14:30 Draft Convention for Regional Self-Government of the Council of Europe
Chair: Yavuz Mildon (Turkey), President of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of the Council of Europe

§ Mr Bernd Semmelroggen (Germany), Expert of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
§ Prof. Joakim Nergelius (Sweden), Professor in Law, University of Örebro Discussion

14:30:15:30 Tendencies in Regionalisation in Europe

Presentation by Prof Dian Schefold, Vice-President of the Group of independent experts on the European Charter of local self-government

National experiences:

§ Italy – presentation by Prof Francesco Merloni, President of the Group of independent experts on the European Charter of local self-government
§ Poland – presentation by Prof. Grzegorz Grzelak, Politology Institute, Gdańsk University

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45- 16:30 National experiences – continuation

§ Denmark – presentation by Erik Lohmann-Davidsen, Director, Roskilde Region (to be confirmed) § Norway – presentation by Ms Hege Johansen, ECON Analysis

Discussion

16:30-17:00 Conclusions and closing session

Dinner, Host Mr. Uno Aldegren, President of the Regional Executive Board