22nd of November: 9.00 – 18.00

9.00 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 11.15

• Opening session
  Mr. Ferruccio Dardanello, Vice-President of Unioncamere
  
• Mr. Vito Giannella, President of ECRF
• New perpectives for Commerce Registers in Europe, Mr. Federico Tassinari, Notary, Italy

Session 1: Administrative simplification and the new technologies
Chairman: Mr. Vittorio Macchitella, Deputy Secretary General, Unioncamere

1a) EU perspectives:

• Societas Europaea: Ms. Françoise Blanquet, Advisor,European Commission, DG-Internal
  Market
• Proposal for new EC directive on Company law: Mr. Daniel Ruppert, Ministry of Justice,
  Luxembourg

1b) ECRF activities:

• Benchmarking the Administration of start-ups: Mr. Michael Coyne, European Commission,
  DG-Enterprise and Mr. Roine Amonsson, Manager, Patent and Registration
  Office, Sweden

14.30 – 18.00

Session 1: Administrative simplification and the new technologies (cont.)

1b) ECRF activities (cont.)

• Electronic filing in Europe, Italy: Mr. Vincenzo Pitino, InfoCamere

A view on developments in e-filing in Europe:

• Mr. Alberto Schena, Director Studies
  and Strategies Department, Info-
  Camere, Italy
• Mr. Joaquin Rodriguez, Colegio de
  Registradores de la Propriedad y
  Mercantiles de Espana
• Mr. Siep Mulder, The Dutch Association
  of Chambers of Commerce
• Mrs. Aleksandra Klava, Head of Legal
  Division of Register of enterprises,
  Latvia

• A proposal for the adoption of a standard for the exchange of data in respect of enterprises: Paul Farrell, Registrar, Companies Registration Office, Ireland

• Closing remarks: Mr. Marco Conte, Unioncamere, Italy
  

23rd of November: 9.00 – 13.00

Session 2: Business Register, an administration for enterprises: what is going on outside the EU?

Chairman: Erik Fossum, General Director, Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway

Speeches:

• Can a court register be comfortable for clients?
  The Estonian experience - Mr. Viljar Peep, Ministry of Justice, Estonia
• The Registration of Companies, Public Company Information and Court Registration Proceedings on Hungary - Mr. Laszlo Gatter, President of the
  Capital Court, Hungary
• Current developments in the Commerce Register of the Republic of Slovenia - Mr. Niko Schlamberger, State Under Secretary, Statistical Office, Slovenia
• The new law for registration of legal entities in the Russian Federation - Mr. Roal Lebedinskiy and Mr. Igor
  Aleksandrov, Moscow Registration Chamber, Russian Federation
• The new Polish business register - Mr. Jerzy Kielbowicz, Director, Ministry of Justice, Poland
• The Trade Register- the essential assistance in the Romanian business community - Mrs. Lucia Topor, Director, National Trade Register, Romania
  

11.00 – 12.30

Session 3: From the Business Register to new services

Chairman: Mr. Alberto Schena, Director Studies and Strategies Department, InfoCamere, Italy

Opening Speech: Mr. Cesare San Mauro, Chief Technical Advisor for the Italian Minister for Public
Administration, Italy

Speeches:

• Infoimprese.it - Ms. Maria Teresa Capacchione, Marketing Manager, InfoCamere, Italy
• Infomerciales - Mr. Eric Vaingnedroye, Marketing Manager, ORT, France
• EBR – Trust and Internet Confidence Service - Mr. Vito Giannella, Director, EBR - European Business Register EEIG
• KontaktN - Mrs. Annika Bränström, Project Manager, PRV, Sweden
• The management of the .im domain name - Ms. Jane Bates, Head of Companies Supervision, Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission, Isle of Man
• An analysis of corporate shareholding in the Italian companies - Mr. Claudio Gagliardi, Director-
  Center of Research and Economic
  Analysis, Unioncamere, Italy
• XML & Business Register’s Services - Mr. Jiri Roudny, Mr. Jiri Langrans Mrs. Jikta Karpinska, Ministry of Finance-IT Systems Integration, Czech Republic

12.30 – 13.00

Closing of the Conference

• Mr. Giuseppe Tripoli, Secretary General, Unioncamere
• Mr. Vito Giannella, President ECRF
  
• Mr. Erik Fossum, General Director, Brønnøysund Register Centre