Thursday 2 March 2006
09:00 -10:00 am
Registration of the participants
10:00 -11:30 am
OPENING SESSION
Chair:
Keith WHITMORE, Chair of the Committee on Sustainable
Development of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of
the Council of Europe (United Kingdom)
Call for candidates for an editorial board of the Final Declaration
Addresses by :
Volodymyr UDOVYCHENKO, Mayor of the City of Slavutych, Member of the
Congress (Ukraine)
Viktor BALOGA, Minister for Emergencies and for the Protection of population
against the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe of Ukraine
Mykola PUKHTYNSKIY, President of the Foundation for Local Self-Government of
Ukraine
Eladio FERNANDEZ-GALIANO, Executive Secretary of EUR-OPA Major Hazards
Partial Agreement, Council of Europe
Walter SCHMIED, Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and
Local and Regional Affairs, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(Switzerland)
Yavuz MILDON, President of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of Local
and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (Turkey)
General introduction on the Chernobyl accident :
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Historical and political context:
Anders KNAPE, Vice President of the Congress (Sweden),
Rapporteur on Nuclear Safety and local and regional democracy
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Evaluation of the radiological, health and socio-economic impacts: findings of
the Chernobyl Forum
Volodymyr BERKOVSKYY, Division of Radiation, Transport & Waste Safety,
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
11:30 – 11:45 am Break
11:45 - 01:00 pm
CHERNOBYL: THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH, ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMICAL CONSEQUENCES 20 YEARS AFTER
1ST ROUND TABLE
Moderator: Robert PARSONS, Radio Free Europe Regional Expert, former BBC
correspondent in Moscow
With the participation of:
Volodymyr BEBECHKO, Professor of the Ukrainian Centre of Radiation Medicine
Volodymyr BERKOVSKYY, Division of Radiation, Transport & Waste Safety,
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Anders KNAPE, Vice President of the Congress (Sweden)
Yuriy KOSTENKO, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament
Yuriy SAENKO, Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology of the National
Academy of Science of Ukraine
Andriy SERDUK, Member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine,
Director of the Medical Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology
02:30 – 04:00 pm MOVING TOWARDS RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF LOCAL
AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DISASTERS
2nd ROUND TABLE
Moderator: Daniel RIOT, Director of the European Desk of France 3 Alsace
(France)
With the participation of:
Viktor LUK'YANENKO, former Deputy Mayor of the City of Prypiat (Ukraine)
Jan MANS, Member of the Congress, former Mayor of the City of Enschede
(Netherlands)
Marzio MARZORATI, Vice-Mayor of the City of Seveso (Italy)
Mykola PRYMACHENKO, President of the Kyiv regional council (Ukraine)
Arkhyp VOYTENKO, President of the Jytomyr regional council, Member of the
Congress (Ukraine)
04:00 - 04:30 pm
Break
04:30 – 06:30 pm COORDINATION OF THE DIFFERENT STAKE-HOLDERS IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF DISASTERS: THE EXAMPLE OF CHERNOBYL
3RD ROUND TABLE
Moderator: Robert PARSONS, Radio Free Europe Regional Expert, former BBC
correspondent in Moscow
with the participation of :
Pierre CHUILON, Head of Sector, Nuclear Safety Unit, EuropeAid Co-operation
Office, European Commission
Evguen GARYN, Director-coordinator of the Chernobyl Centre for Nuclear Safety,
Radioactive Waste and Radiology
Igor GRAMOTKIN, Director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Station
Volodymyr KHOLOCHA, Deputy Minister for Emergencies and for the Protection
of population against the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe of Ukraine
Viktor ODYNYTSYA, Director the Slavutych Community Development Centre
Victor POYARKOV, Executive Director and President of the Scientific Committee
of the European Centre of Technological Safety (TESEC), Ukraine, EUR-OPA
Major Hazards Partial Agreement
Mykola MOVCHAN, Expert, Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme,
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
08:00 pm
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Dinner offered by the Mayor of the City of Slavutych
Friday, 3rd March 2006
09:00 – 11:00 am
A STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF MAJOR HAZARDS:
TOWARDS REDUCING THE VULNERABILITY OF SITES
4th ROUND TABLE
Moderator:
Daniel RIOT, Director of the European Desk of France 3 Alsace (France)
With the participation of:
Vanik ASATRYAN, Mayor of the City of Spitak (Armenia)
Bill ETHERINGTON, Chair of the Sub-Committee on Sustainable Development,
Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (United Kingdom)
Jan MANS, Mayor of the City of Zaanstad, Chair of the European Forum Local and
Regional Disaster Management, Member of the Congress (Netherlands)
Elisabeth MOISY, European Union of Local Authorities Chief Executives (UDITE)
Volodymyr UDOVYCHENKO, Mayor of the City of Slavutych, Member of the Congress
Wim VAN GELDER, Member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union,
Queen’s Commissionner of Zeeland (The Netherlands)
11:00 – 11:30 am
Break
11:30 – 12:30 am
LAUNCHING OF THE "EUROPEAN FORUM - LOCAL AND REGIONAL DISASTER
MANAGEMENT"
Multimedia presentation by Jan MANS, President
Exchange of views
12:30 - 02:15 pm
Lunch offered by the President of the Chamber of Local Authorities of the Congress
02:15 -04:00 pm
CLOSING SESSION
Chair :
Ivan KULICHENKO, Vice President of the Congress,
Mayor of the City of Dnipropetrovs’k (Ukraine)
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Presentation of the draft declaration by the Chair of the editorial board
Discussion
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Adoption of the final declaration
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Conclusions:
Volodymyr UDOVYCHENKO, Mayor of the City of Slavutych, Member of the
Congress (Ukraine)
Ian MICALLEF, Vice President of the Congress, Representative of the Chamber of
Local Authorities (Malta)
Saturday 4 March 2006
9:00 – 05.00 pm
Visit of the city of Slavutych and the Chernobyl Nuclear Station
With the participation of:
Igor GRAMOTKIN, Director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Station
Volodymyr UDOVYCHENKO, Mayor of the City of Slavutych, Member of the Congress
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