Programme
8.45 – 9.30 am
Welcome coffee
9.30 – 10.30 am
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Opening session
Welcome
Accountability in the EU – A personal reaction to the ECA landscape review,
Mr Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Commissioner
Introductory comments on EU accountability arrangements,
Mr Vítor Caldeira, ECA President
‘Gaps, overlaps and challenges, EU Accountability and Public Audit Arrangements’,
Mr Kevin Cardiff, ECA reporting Member and Mr Jacques Sciberras, team leader
Questions and answers
10.30 – 11.20 am
Accountability within the EU
Chair: Mr Henrik Otbo,
ECA Member
Parallel 1
10.30
10.45
11.00
Parallel sessions 1 & 2
Parallel 2
Accounting for performance – How to account
for policy and regulatory impact?
Ms Nadia Calvino, Director General, DG Budget,
European Commission
How should accountability for shared
management be addressed at Member State
and EU level? Mr Igor Šoltes, MEP
Discussion
Discussant: Dr Julie Smith, Lecturer in European
politics, Cambridge University
10.30 Accountability of central banks and supervisory
bodies – What should be the remit of auditors at
EU and national level? Mr Claes Norgren,
Auditor General, Swedish National Audit Office
10.45 ECB and accountability to the European
Parliament, Professor Mark Hallerberg, Hertie
School of Governance
11.00 Discussion
Discussant: Mr Gilles Noblet, Deputy Director
General International & European Relations of
the ECB
11.20 – 11.40 am
Coffee break
11.40 – 12.30 pm
Parallel sessions 3 & 4
Accountability for crisis and post crisis
structures, Chair: Mr Gay Mitchell,
former MEP, author of ‘By Dail Account,
auditing of government, Past, Present and
Future’
EU governance structures, post crisis,
Professor Brigid Laffan, European University
Institute
European but not EU – the special case of
ESM/EFSF, Mr Kalin Anev Janse, Secretary
General of ESM
Discussion
Parallel 3
11.40
11.55
12.10
12.30 pm
Parallel 4
Accountability for leveraging of EU funds
with outside participation, Chair: Mr Gijs
de Vries, St Antony's College Oxford,
former ECA Member
11.40 Democratic
control
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Public-Private
Partnerships, Professor Christopher Bovis,
University of Hull
11.55 EIB - using Europe’s leverage and how to
account for it, Mr Jonathan Taylor, VicePresident of EIB
12.10 Discussion
Closing session
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1.00 pm
Accountability of central banks and
supervisors, Chair: Mr Neven Mates, ECA
Member
Where next for EU accountability structures?
Dr. Ingerborg Grässle, Chair of CONT Committee, European Parliament
Summary and conference conclusions
Standing lunch
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