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Programme

 

 

DAY III – FRIDAY, MAY 19

 

REPORTING THE RESULTS OF ROUNDTABLES 3 AND 4

[10:30]

 

Coffee break [15 min]

 

PLENARY SESSION 3: INNOVATING THE ROLE OF ACAs IN PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY’S FINANCIAL INTERESTS AND ANCHORING THEIR ACTIVITIES IN CIVIL SOCIETY

[11:00-13.00]

Véronique Pujas (IEP Grenoble, France) “The Difficult First Steps of the European Anticorruption Office (OLAF)”

Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia) “The Transfer of Anti Corruption Agencies: Coercion, Mimesis and Training”

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Norway) “Anti-corruption and anti-corruption agencies: The Utstein approach”

Ben Elers (TI-Secretariat, Germany) “Empowering people to become involved in the fight against corruption”

 

Lunch [13:00-15:00]

 

ROUNDTABLE 5: BUILDING INTEGRATED STRATEGIES

“PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY’S FINANCIAL INTERESTS”: DOES IT MATTER?

WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF COOPERATION AND COMMON INITIATIVES BETWEEN EUROPEAN ACAs?

WHAT IS THE ROLE FOR THE OLAF: LEADERSHIP, COORDINATION, INTERFACE?

ARE EU INSTRUMENTS FIT TO ASSIST NATIONAL EFFORTS IN COMBATING TRANSNATIONAL CORRUPTION?

[15:00-16:15]

 

Chair: Miguel Poiares Maduro (ECJ, Luxembourg)

Rapporteur: Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE, Portugal)

 

Coffee break [15 min]

 

ROUNDTABLE 6: ANCHORING CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN CIVIL SOCIETY

DEALING WITH THE PRESSURE OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR VISIBLE RESULTS

MAKING STRATEGIC ALLIANCES WITH THE MEDIA

BOOSTING DETECTION THROUGH THE USE OF ICT

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE CITIZENS’ WATCHDOG ROLE AND INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES

THE ROLE OF ANTICORRUPTION “OBSERVATORIES”

[16:30-17:45]

 

Chair: Juanita Olaya (TI-Secretariat, Germany)

Rapporteur: Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU, Australia)

 

Coffee break [15 min]

 

NEXT STEPS: 10 GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON HOW TO INNOVATE THE ROLE OF ACAs IN PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY’S FINANCIAL INTERESTS AND ANCHOR THEIR CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN CIVIL SOCIETY

[18:00-18.15]

 

Final conclusions from rapporteurs:

Luís de Sousa (CIES-ISCTE) and Peter Larmour (APSEG/ANU)

 

CLOSING ADDRESS

[18:15]

Chair: Euclides Dâmaso Simões (DIAP Coimbra, Portugal)

 

Stuart C. Gilman, Head of Anti-Corruption Unit and the Global Programme against Corruption of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Austria) “The Promise of the UN Convention against Corruption: Translating Words into Concrete Policy and Action”

 

Cheese and wine / networking

 

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WORKSHOP DIRECTOR:

Luís Sousa (CIES-ISCTE)

e-mail: luis.sousa@iscte.pt

 

 

WORKSHOP STAFF:

Carla Salema (Secretariat)

e-mail: carla.salema@iscte.pt

 

Ana Ferreira (Secretariat)

e-mail: ana.ferreira@iscte.pt

 

João Triães (Research Assistant)

e-mail: joao.triaes@iscte.pt

 

Vera Henriques (Assistant)

e-mail: vera.henriques@iscte.pt

 

Tiago Lapa (Assistant)

e-mail: tiago.lapa@iscte.pt

 

 

ORGANIZATION:

Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-ISCTE)

 

CO-FINANCED BY:

Hercule Grant Programme, European Antifraud Office (OLAF)

 

IN COOPERATION WITH:

The Australian National University (ANU)

 

OTHER SPONSORS:

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, FCT e Público

 

PARTICIPANTS:

Heads of European Anti-Corruption Agencies (EU Member States, Candidate Countries and Associated Countries), foreign ACA officials, international organization officials, NGO representatives and academics

 

 

 

CIES – Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia

Av. Forças Armadas - ISCTE

1649-026 Lisboa - Portugal

 

Tel.: 217 903 077

217 941 404

Fax: 217 940 074

E-mail: cies@iscte.pt