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European Economic and Social Committee

EESC-2014-07296-00-08-TCD-TRA (ES) 1/4

The European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean: common challenges and shared opportunities
8th Meeting of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean Organised Civil Society
11 and 12 March, 2015
European Economic and Social Committee
Room 62, Jacques Delors Building, 99 Rue Belliard, Brussels

Draft Programme

11 March
8.30 -9 a.m. / Registration of participants
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. / Preparatory meetings of the groups
  • Room 60 — Preparatory meeting of the Employers' Group
  • Room 62 — Preparatory meeting of the Workers' Group
  • Room 61 — Preparatory meeting of the Various Interests Group

1 - 2.30 p.m. / Lunch break
2.30 - 4 p.m. / Opening session
Chaired by Paulo Barros Vale, President of the Latin America Follow-up Committee, EESC
  • Roland Schäfer, Director for the Americas, European External Action Service
  • Marcus Cornaro, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
  • Rebeca Grynspan, Iberoamerican General Secretary
  • Erika Guzmán, Connect programme manager, EU-LAC Foundation
  • Pablo Villagómez Reinel, Ambassador of Ecuador to the European Union (tbc)
  • Luis Guillermo Coto Moya, Chairman of the Board of the Consultative Committee of the Central American Integration System
  • José María Zufiaur, President of the European Economic and Social Committee's External Relations Section.

4 - 4.30 p.m. / Coffee break
4.30 - 6.30 p.m. / Topical item - The role of civil society in climate change
  • Moderator: Francisco Alberto Galán Sarmiento, Executive Director of Patrimonio Natural [Natural Heritage Fund]
  • Speaker: Anne Bergenfelt, International and Inter-institutional Relations Unit, Directorate-General for Climate Action
  • Antonio Jara, coordinator of the Argentina Section of Mercosur's Economic and Social Consultative Forum (General Confederation of Labour)
  • Lutz Ribbe, EESC Member and President of the Sustainable Development Observatory
  • María Elena Sol Trujillo, Chair of the Environment and Development Sectoral Committee of the Consultative Committee of the Central American Integration System (CC-SICA)
  • Discussion

6.30 - 8 p.m. / Reception
Venue: EESC Atrium, 6th floor
12 March
9 -11 a.m. / Session 1 - Opportunities: Towards an economic cooperation strategy beneficial to both continents
  • Moderator: Kathleen Walker Shaw, EESC Member
  • Speaker: Osvaldo Rosales, Head of International Trade and Integration at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Mario Soares, EESC member
  • Flavia Cherry, Chair of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
  • Nancy Elisabeth Fonseca Caldera, Director for International Affairs of the Employers' Confederation of the Republic of Mexico (COPARMEX)
  • Discussion

11 - 11.30 a.m. / Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. / Session 2 - Challenges: Inequality
  • Moderator: Ricardo Patah, member of the Mercosur Economic and Social Consultative Forum and of the Brazilian Economic and Social Development Council (UGT)
  • Speaker: Beethoven Herrera Valencia, Doctor in Economics, Emeritus Professor at the National University of Colombia and Senior Lecturer at the Externado University of Colombia
  • Víctor Báez, Secretary-General of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA)
  • Orazio Belletini, President of the Ecuadorian Confederation of Civil Society Organisations
  • José Isaías Rodríguez García-Caro, EESC member
  • Discussion

1 - 2.30 p.m. / Lunch break
2.30 - 4 p.m. / Session 3 - Challenges: The shadow economy
  • Moderator: Amanda Claribel Villatoro, Secretary for Trade Union Policy and Education of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
  • Speaker: Frédéric Lapeyre, Head of the Informal Economy Unit, ILO
  • Fabiola da Silva Nader Motta, Director of Institutional Relations of the Organisation of Brazilian Cooperatives (TCO) (tbc)
  • Giuseppe Iuliano, EESC member
  • Roberto Antonio González Rojas, Director of projects of the National Confederation of the Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise of Chile (CONAPYME)
  • Discussion

4 - 4.30 p.m. / Keynote speaker — interaction between civil society and the EU-America Joint Parliamentary Assembly
  • Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Member of the European Parliament and Co-president of the EU-Latin America Joint Parliamentary Assembly

4.30 - 5 p.m. / Presentation of the publication by the Economic and Social Councils in Latin America and the European Union — practical experiences of social dialogue
  • Dionis Oña, member of the Spanish ESC

5 - 5.30 p.m. / Coffee break
5.30-6.20 p.m. / Presentation and adoption of the Final Declaration
  • Presentation of the Final Declaration: Paulo Barros Vale, President of the Latin America Follow-up Committee, EESC

6.20-6.30 p.m. / Closing addresses
  • Paulo Barros Vale, President of the Latin America Follow-up Committee, EESC
  • Antonio Jara, coordinator of the Argentina Section of Mercosur's Economic and Social Consultative Forum (General Confederation of Labour)

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