Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa ASIA-EUROPE DEMOCRATISATION AND JUSTICE SERIES NEW TRENDS IN POLITICAL FINANCING REGULATION IN ASIA AND EUROPE: THE NEW ROLE OF MONITORING & ENFORCEMENT BODIES Lisbon, 18-19 February 2010 Auditório Edifício Novo, Assembleia da República CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATORS: ORGANIZATION: Luís de Sousa, ICS/UL and Natalia Figge, ASEF Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon and Asia Europe Foundation. Council of Europe, GRECO – Group of States against Corruption, Assembleia da República Portuguesa, Transparency International and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. 35 Asian and European experts from relevant bodies in ASEM ministries, practitioners in the field of political financing and representatives from international and regional institutions (such as relevant bodies in the Council of Europe, the ASEAN Secretariat, the EC) national and international NGOs, the academe, think tanks, research institutes and the media. COLLABORATION: PARTICIPANTS: DRAFT PROGRAMME DAY I, THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY REGISTRATION (9:00) WELCOME TO PARTICIPANTS (9:30) Jorge Vala (Director of ICS/UL, Portugal) Sol Iglesias (Director of the Intellectual Exchange Department, ASEF) and Luís de Sousa (ICS/UL, Portugal) KEYNOTE ADDRESS (10:00) President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court, Mr. Rui Moura Ramos (TBC) SESSION 1. SETTING STANDARDS IN COUNTRIES UNDERGOING POLITICAL TRANSITION (10:45-12:45) Chair: António Costa Pinto (Chairperson of the Portuguese Political Science Association) Rei Shiratori President of the Institute for Political Studies, Japan “Party System Emergence and Consolidation in Transitional Countries in Asia” 1 Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa Goran Fejic Senior Adviser to the Secretary-Generals Office, IDEA, Sweden “Democracy and the challenge of illicit political financing” Michael Janssen GRECO Secretariat “Political financing: an overview of shortcomings and best practices identified in GRECO country reports so far” Debate Lunch SESSION 2. INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION, PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING (14:15-16:00) Chair: Luís de Sousa (ICS-UL Portugal) Tai-Hwan Lee Senior Research Fellow at Regional Studies Program, Sejong Institute, Korea “Enforcement aspects in Asian Political Financing Regulatory Regimes” Miguel Fernandes Former President of the Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos, Portugal “Political Financing Supervisory Bodies as Innovative Responses to Political Financing” Coffee break Navin B. Chawla Chief of Election Commissioner of India "Monitoring and enforcement of campaign financing in India" Debate ROUNDTABLE 1. THE ROLE OF SUPERVISORY BODIES: MISSION, COMPETENCES, INDEPENDENCE, GUARANTEES, INTERINSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION AND ENFORCEMENT (16:00-17:30) Chair: Luís de Sousa (ICS/UL, Portugal) Roundtable PFSB participants (see list below) Q&A ******************** 2 Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa DAY II, FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY SESSION 3. THE WATCHDOG ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY: POTENTIAL, APPLICATION AND LIMITS (9:00-11:00) Chair: Balint Molnar (Freedom House Europe) Balint Molnar Freedom House Europe “Research Notes on Hungarian Project” Navraj Singh Ghaleigh Law School, University of Edinburgh, UK “New Media – A Tool to Help Civil Society Monitoring Political Financing?” Coffee break Justin Fisher Director of Magna Carta Institute, Brunel University, UK “The Limits of Civil Society in Monitoring Political Finance” Debate ROUNDTABLE 2. ANCHORING THE MONITORING AND REGULATORY ACTION OF POLITICAL FINANCING SUPERVISORY BODIES IN CIVIL SOCIETY (11:00-12:30) Chair: Tinatin Ninua (Transparency International – Political Corruption Programme) Roundtable PFSB participants (see list below) Q&A Lunch SESSION 4. COMPARATIVE AND REGIONAL REGULATORY REFORMS (14:00-15:40) Chair: Goran Fejic (Senior Adviser to the Secretary-Generals Office, IDEA, Sweden) Eswaran Sridharan Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), India “Regulatory reforms on party and election financing in India and Asian in comparative perspective” Tinatin Ninua Transparency International – Political Corruption Programme 3 Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa “Political finance regulations: bridging the enforcement gap. Comparative findings from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal” Wojciech Gagatek Institute of Political Science, Warsaw University, Poland “Political financing regulation at the supranational Level: lessons drawn from the EU” Debate Coffee break CONCLUSIONS (16:15-16:40) Rapporteur: Natalia Figge (ASEF) “Presentation of main outcomes of the various plenary sessions and roundtables discussions” NEXT STEPS: 10 GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITATION OF SUPERVISORY BODIES (16:40-17:00) Rapporteur: Luís de Sousa (ICS/UL, Portugal) CLOSING REMARKS (17:00-17:30) Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Khanh ASEF’s Deputy Executive Director ************************ 4 Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa LIST OF ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS EUROPEAN PFSB ASIAN PFSB UNITED KINGDOM Stephen Rooney, Director of Communication, The Electoral Commission INDIA Navin B. Chawla Chief, Election Commissioner of India IRELAND David Waddell, Secretary, Standards in Public Office Commission INDONESIA Syamsul Bahri, General Election Commission (KPU) LATVIA Natalja Titova, Division of Control of Financing of Political Parties, Latvian Anti-Corruption Bureau (KNAB) JAPAN Rei Shiratori, President of the Institute for Political Studies PORTUGAL Margarida Salema, Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos, Tribunal Constitucional SLOVENIA Igor Šoltes, Chairman, Court of Audit 5