Program 9th European CODIS User Conference (April 23, 2013, Bratislava, Slovakia) Chair: Kees van der Beek; Custodian Dutch DNA-database, NFI, The Netherlands 09.00 – 09.15 Welcome Ing. Ondrej Laciak, Director Institute of Forensic Science, Slovakia 09.15 – 10.00 CODIS update by the FBI Douglas Hares and Timothy Zolandz, FBI, USA 10.00 – 10.30 CODIS helpdesk update by SAIC Sean McGinnis, SAIC, USA 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea-break and group photo and CODIS demo’s 11.00 – 11.30 The use of CODIS in Slovakia Petra Panenková, Institute of Forensic Science, Slovakia 11.30 – 12.00 The use of CODIS 7.0 for the international exchange of DNA-profiles in Spain Maria Bueno Fernández, Cuerpo Nacional de Policia, Spain 12.00 – 14.00 Lunch and CODIS demo’s 14.00 – 14.30 Rapid DNA and CODIS in the US Douglas Hares, FBI, USA 14.30 – 15.00 What can the Prüm Helpdesk at Europol do for you Pierre van Renterghem, Europol, The Hague 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/tea-break and CODIS demo’s 15.30 – 16.00 The incorporation of forensic kinship testing in the Dutch DNA legislation Kees van der Beek, NFI, The Netherlands 16.00 – 16.30 DNA-database match reporting in Sweden Christina Widen, SKL, Sweden 16.30 – 16.45 Closing the conference