43 RD CPMR GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4/6 November 2015 Florence (Tuscany, Italy)

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E3 CONFÉRENCE DES RÉGIONS PÉRIPHÉRIQUES MARITIMES D EUROPE CONFERENCE OF PERIPHERAL MARITIME REGIONS OF EUROPE 6, rue Saint-Martin, 35700 RENNES - FR Tel.

1 E3 CONFÉRENCE DES RÉGIONS PÉRIPHÉRIQUES MARITIMES D EUROPE CONFERENCE OF PERIPHERAL MARITIME REGIONS OF EUROPE 6, rue Saint-Martin, RENNES - FR Tel. : + 33 (0) Fax : + 33 (0) secretariat@crpm.org web : 43 RD CPMR GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4/6 November 2015 Florence (Tuscany, Italy) Meeting Venue: Firenze Fiera (Conference Centre), Piazza Adua 1, Florence (Italy) AGENDA (5/11/2015) WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER : Side meetings (no interpreting provided) Working groups and national delegations wishing to meet on the afternoon of 4 November are invited to submit their request to the CPMR Secretariat (secretariat@crpm.org) before 15 October After this date, meeting rooms cannot be guaranteed. Meeting of the CPMR Working Groups Meeting of the Maritime Working Group Room 1 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the Macro-regions Task Force Room 2 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the Cohesion Core Group Room 2 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the Migration Task Force Room 3 (2 nd floor) Meetings of national delegations Meeting of the Swedish Regions Room 3 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the Norwegian Regions - Room 2 (2 nd floor) : Coffee available 19.30: Welcome Reception (Meeting Venue - Firenze Fiera) THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2015 Working languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek Side meetings (no interpreting) Meeting of the BBSRC Tourism Working Group - Room 1 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the EUSAIR Task Force - Room 2 (2 nd floor) Interpreting (En, It) Meeting of the Finnish Regions - Room 3 (2 nd floor) Meeting of the UK Regions Room 3 (2 nd floor) NSC thematic group Advisers meeting - Room 2 (2 nd floor) Meeting on the WEBLA Project - Room 2 (2 nd floor) Geographical Commission Meetings Islands Commission (Fr, En, It, Es, Gr) General Assembly Room (1 st floor) Atlantic Arc Commission (Fr, En, Es) General Assembly Room (1 st floor) North Sea Commission (En) Room 1(no interpreting) (2 nd floor) Baltic Sea Commission (En) Room 1(no interpreting) (2 nd floor) Intermediterranean Commission (Fr, En, Es, It, Gr) - General Assembly Room (1 st floor) Balkan & Black Sea Commission (En, Gr) - General Assembly Room (1 st floor) : Coffee break : Buffet on site v. E3 Page 1

2 14.30 OPENING SESSION - Mr Enrico Rossi, President of Tuscany Region and Vice-President of the CPMR - Mr Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries by video - Mr Vasco Cordeiro, President of the CPMR and President of the Government of the Azores Approval of the minutes of the Umeå General Assembly (September 2014) Approval of the General Assembly Agenda SESSION 1: CPMR ACTIVITY REPORT AND OUTLOOK Presentation of the Activity Report by Mrs Eleni Marianou, Secretary General of the CPMR. Launch of the new CPMR and Geographical Commissions website. - Debate - Summing up by Mr Vasco Cordeiro, President of the CPMR and President of the Government of the Azores - Adoption of the Activity Report and the draft Policy Position Decentralised Cooperation and the Regional Dimension in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development SESSION 2: A GLOBAL INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MIGRATION: NEEDS, ROLE AND PROPOSALS FROM THE REGIONS Introduced by Mrs Eleni Marianou, Secretary General of the CPMR Moderator: Mr Paolo Pardini, Editor in Chief of Rai di Firenze - Keynote address by Mr Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management - Participants: Mrs Christiana Kalogirou, Regional Governor of North Aegean Region Mr Apostolos Katsifaras, Regional Governor of Dytiki Ellada Region Mrs Federica Roccisano, Regional Minister, Calabria Region Mr Georgios Hatzimarkos, Regional Governor of South Aegean Region Mrs Serena Angioli, Regional Minister, Campania Region Presentation of the draft Policy Position on Migration Management by Mrs Annika Annerby Jansson, Vice-President of Region Skåne and Vice-President of the CPMR Debate and vote 17.00: Coffee break Meeting of the Final Declaration Overview Group (Room 3, 2 nd floor) : MEETING OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU (Members only) Agenda distributed in Florence 19.30: Gala Dinner (Venue: Istituto degli Innocenti, Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 12, Florence - 15 min walk) Delegates should keep their badges to ensure access to the dinner venue v. E3 Page 2

3 FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2015 Working languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek 9.00 Keynote speech by Mr Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Parliament SESSION 3: CONNECTING EUROPE PERIPHERIES: ACCESSIBILITY IS STILL AN ISSUE Chaired and introduced by Mr Wulfran Despicht, Vice-President of Nord-Pas de Calais Region Debate Moderator: Mr Antonello Riccelli, Director, TeleGranducato - Ms Ines Ayala Sender, Member of the European Parliament - Mr Herald Ruijters, Head of Unit Trans European Network, DG MOVE-European Commission - Mr Wulfran Despicht, Vice-President of Nord-Pas de Calais Region, on Motorways of the Sea and Maritime Transport: proposals from the maritime Regions - Mr Erik Bergkvist, President of Region Västerbotten: Grey areas of the TEN-T - Mr Marc Pons I Pons, Consejero de Presidencia, Balearic Islands Government, on the consideration of island priorities Summing up by Mr Wulfran Despicht, Vice-President of Nord-Pas de Calais Region : Coffee break SESSION 4: PERIPHERAL AND MARITIME REGIONS AT THE HEART OF THE DEBATE ON POST-2020 COHESION POLICY REFORM Chaired and introduced by Mr Claudio Martini, Italian Senator and former CPMR President Moderator: Mr Dario Carella, Deputy Director, RAI3 - Opening speech by Mr Enrico Rossi, President of Tuscany Region and Vice-President of the CPMR in charge of Regional Policy - Mr Jan Olbrycht, Member of the European Parliament - Mr Mikel Landabaso, Director, DG REGIO-European Commission Presentation of the findings of the CPMR study on the role of the Regions in Cohesion Policy - Mr Pedro Antonio Sánchez López, President of Murcia Region - Mr Francesco Pigliaru, President of Sardinia Region - Mr Julian German, Cabinet Member for Economy and Culture, Cornwall Council Debate introduced by Mr Kostas Bakoyannis, Regional Governor of Sterea Ellada Region (Central Greece) Summing up by Mr Claudio Martini, Italian Senator and former CPMR President : Buffet Lunch on site v. E3 Page 3

4 13.30 SESSION 5: ENERGY AND CLIMATE Chaired and introduced by Mr Rogier Van Der Sande, Regional Minister of Zuid-Holland and Vice-President of the CPMR in charge of Climate Change ENERGY: HOW DOES THE ENERGY UNION APPLY TO PERIPHERAL AND MARITIME REGIONS? Moderator: Mr Mauro Bonciani, Director, Il Corriere della Sera-Corriere Fiorentino - Mr Fabio Refrigeri, Regional Minister, Lazio Region - Mr Steven Heddle, Convenor of Orkney Islands Council and President of the CPMR Islands Commission - Mr Richard Sjölund, Regional Councillor, Ostrobothnia CLIMATE: WHAT ROLE FOR THE REGIONS IN THE POST-2020 GLOBAL CLIMATE AGREEMENT? Debate Moderator: Mr Dominique Ramard, Regional Councillor for Energy and Chair of Environment Committee, Brittany Region - Mr Ronan Dantec, Senator of Loire-Atlantique & UCLG s spokesperson on climate - Mr Jari Sainio, Vice-President of Helsinki-Uusimaa Region and President of the Baltic Sea Commission - Mr Javier Aguirre, Director, Basque Government Summing up by Mr Dominique Ramard, Regional Councillor for Energy and Chair of the Environment Committee, Brittany Region SESSION 6: INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY Europe of the sea to deliver sustainable blue growth Debate Chaired and introduced by Mr Georges Alexakis, Regional Councillor of Crete and Vice-President of the CPMR in charge of Maritime Affairs Moderator: Mr Omar Monestier, Editor of il Tirreno newspaper - Speech by Mr Haitze Siemers, Head of Unit, DG MARE-European Commission - Speeches by Regional Representatives focusing on key examples of CPMR involvement in maritime issues: Mr Cees Loggen, Regional Minister of the Province of Noord-Holland Mrs Kerstin Brunnström, Councillor-Region Västra Götaland and Vice-President of the North Sea Commission Mr François Maïtia, Vice-President, Aquitaine Region Mr André Lubrano, Regional Councillor, Languedoc-Roussillon Region Mr Theodoros Galiatsatos, Regional Governor of Ionian Islands Summing up by Mr Georges Alexakis, Regional Councillor of Crete and Vice-President of the CPMR in charge of Maritime Affairs : Coffee break SESSION 7: EXAMINATION AND VOTE ON THE FINAL DECLARATION Presentation by Mr Vasco Cordeiro, President of the CPMR and President of the Government of the Azores, and Mrs Eleni Marianou, Secretary General of the CPMR v. E3 Page 4

5 17.15 SESSION 8: BUDGET DECISIONS by Mrs Gunn Marit Helgesen, First Vice-President and Treasurer of the CPMR Presentation and vote on the 2014 annual accounts Update on the implementation of the 2015 budget Presentation and vote on the 2016 draft budget 17.30: SESSION 9 - EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1/ Ratification by the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Amendment to Point 7.3.b of the CPMR Statutes regarding Candidates for the post of CPMR President : Original version: Only Presidents or Vice-Presidents of member regions, full members of the Political Bureau, may be elected. Version proposed and validated by the Political Bureau in Crete (GR) on 12 June 2015 Only Presidents -or in regions where the President is appointed, the highest ranking elected Vice-Presidents- of member regions, full members of the political bureau, may be elected. 2/ Proposed amendment to Point 4.2.a of the CPMR Statutes regarding CPMR Membership for Associate Members: Original version: Any region of the States belonging to the Union for the Mediterranean Proposed new version: Any region of the States belonging to the Union for the Mediterranean as well as national unions of regional authorities SESSION 10: PRESENTATION OF NEW CPMR MEMBER REGIONS - Tirana (Albania) - 19 County Councils of the Republic of Moldova - Association of Greek Regions (Associate Member)(Greece) FORTHCOMING CPMR MEETINGS Political Bureau - February 2016: Amsterdam (Netherlands) City tbc - 17 June 2016: Kymenlaakso (Finland) Date tbc - February 2017: Gozo (Malta) - June 2017: City tbc General Assembly - October 2016: Azores (Portugal) - October 2017: Helsinki-Uusimaa (Finland) Closing speech by Mr Vasco Cordeiro, President of the CPMR and President of the Government of the Azores End of proceedings 19.30: Dinner/Buffet (Venue: Tuscany Region, Piazza Duomo 10, Florence, 15 min walk) Delegates should keep their badges to ensure access to the dinner venue SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015: Excursion ( ) Guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery (in French or English) Registration for the guided tour is now closed (deadline 15 October 2015). NB: Entry Tickets are to be collected from the EXCURSION Saturday on Thursday 5/11 and Friday 6/11 at the meeting venue (Please make your own lunch arrangements, free afternoon) v. E3 Page 5

DRAFT AGENDA (As of 19 September 2014)

DRAFT AGENDA (As of 19 September 2014) A3 CONFÉRENCE DES RÉGIONS PÉRIPHÉRIQUES MARITIMES D EUROPE CONFERENCE OF PERIPHERAL MARITIME REGIONS OF EUROPE 6, rue Saint-Martin, 35700 RENNES - FR Tel. : + 33 (0)2 99 35 40 50 - Fax : + 33 (0)2 99 35