PROTECTING VICTIMS IN THE EU: THE ROAD AHEAD

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1 PROTECTING VICTIMS IN THE EU: THE ROAD AHEAD Organised by the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union with the support of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights March 2011 Budapest, Károlyi-Csekonics Residence, Múzeum u. 17. PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY, 23 MARCH 13:00-13:40 Visiting the Hungarian Parliament (optional program) 14:00-15:00 Registration 15:00-15:30 OPENING CEREMONY Tibor Navracsics, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice, Hungary Morten Kjaerum, Director, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) 15:30-16:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Video message from Mme. Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship New legislation package on a European victim support system (Victim Package) presented by Françoise Le Bail, Director General for Justice, European Commission 16:00-16:15 Coffee break

2 16:15-18:15 CASE STUDIES FROM THE EU MEMBER STATES This session will present good practice examples from Member States. I. Case study from the United Kingdom Javed Khan, Chief Executive, Victim Support England & Wales II. Presentation of the Court Introduction and the CURE project Anna Wergens, Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority, Sweden III. Developments of the victim support system Prof. Jan Van Dijk, International Victimology Institute Tilburg, Netherlands IV. Vulnerable victim groups: children as victims Marzena Mazur, Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Poland V. Case study: compensation Elisabeth Moiron-Braud, Judge, Head of the office for victims, France 19:30 Gala dinner for participants (Museum of Ethnography, Kossuth Lajos tér 12.) THURSDAY, 24 MARCH 9:15-9:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The situation of the Hungarian victim support system and the Hungarian government s conception about the new European victim support system. Introduction of the Roadmap. Ferenc Zombor, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, Hungary

3 10:00-12:00 PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS I. RECOGNITION The victim definition; provide training to all professionals; protecting the privacy of victims. Underreporting by victims and the lack of awareness Joanna Goodey, Head of Department Freedoms and Justice, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Training programs for officials involved in the crime process David McKenna, President, Victim Support Europe Preventive protection Rianne Letschert, Professor International Law and Victimology, Deputy Director, International Victimology Institute Tilburg Rapporteur: Hans Nilsson, Head of Unit Criminal Judicial Cooperation, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union II. PROTECTION AND SUPPORT Providing psychological and practical aid for victims; effective cooperation between services; victim support organisations; immediate support; language problems. Providing empowering support for victims Rosa Logar, Executive Director, Domestic Abuse Intervention Centre Vienna Victims in Europe Joao Lazaro, President, Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV) Protecting victims in practice Ibolya Vojnovics, Government Office of the Capital of Victim Support, Victim Support Department, Hungary Rapporteur: Szilvia Gyurkó, National Institute of Criminology, Hungary Coffee will be served in the working groups

4 12:00-13:15 Lunch 13:15-15:15 PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS III. ACCESS TO JUSTICE Right of the victim to be informed timely of court hearings and allowing them or their legal counsel to receive information about the proceedings and their outcomes; strengthening the victim s rights to participate in criminal proceedings. Providing information to victims Prof. Andrew Sanders, Head of the Birmingham Law School, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Challenges and opportunities in accessing justice Jonas Grimheden, Programme Manager Legal Research, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Strengthening the victim s role in the crime procedure John Thomas, Lord Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary, United Kingdom Rapporteur: Péter Csonka, JHA Coordinator, Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU IV. REPARATION AND RESTORATION Encouraging the recourse to restorative justice and alternative dispute resolution methods; existing mechanisms; minimum standards. Breaking the cycle Projects towards restoration, responsibility-taking and reintegration in Hungary Borbála Fellegi, Executive director, Foresee Research Group, Hungary National experience in compensation Robert Cario, Prof. dr. of Criminology, Head of Jean Pinatel Criminal Sciences Department, University of Pau and Adour countries, France The recommended minimum standards of restorative justice Levent Altan, European Commission, DG Justice

5 Rapporteur: Aarne Kinnunen, European Forum for Restorative Justice 15:15-15:45 Coffee break 15:45-16:30 EUROPEAN PROTECTION ORDER (EPO) The present situation of the EPO Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Member European Parliament, Spain Civil law protection Jörg Filipponi, Desk Officer, Ministry of Justice, Germany Administrative protection Katariina Jahkola, Ministry of Justice, Finland 16:30-17:00 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS FROM THE WORKING GROUPS Panel debate with the 4 working group rapporteurs General rapporteur: Joanna Goodey, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 17:00-17:30 CLOSING CEREMONY Róbert Répássy, Minister of State, Hungary Igor Dzialuk, Undersecretary of State, Poland Juan Carlos Campo Moreno, Secretary of Justice, Spain Simultaneous interpretation will be provided from/into English, French Hungarian.