PROGRAMME

“Co-operative banks: a model to finance the real economy”

1st December 2014

European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels

09.00 / Registration
09.30 / Introduction speech by Mr Henri Malosse, President of the EESC
09.45 / Key note speeches:
-  Mr Daniel Calleja Crespo – Director-General, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC
-  Mr Bernard Huberdeau – Secretary General, CIBP
Chaired by: Mr Martin Siecker – President of the Section for the Internal Market, Production and
Consumption, EESC
10.15
10.30 / Coffee break
Key note speech: Mr Geert van der Horst – Secretary General, UNICO
10.45 / Roundtable 1: First Assessment of the new EU instruments to finance SMEs
Panelists:
-  Mr Ciprian Cristea – Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, EU Commission
-  Mr Rémi Charrier – Head of Division in the Mandate Management Department, EIF
-  Mr Miro Fiordi – CEO, Creval Group Mr Erich Kühnelt – SME finance expert at Austrian Economic Chamber
-  Mr Enrico Giancoli – Chairman, UNICO Task Force on SME financing
-  Mr Gilbert Reyberole – President, SOCAMA
-  Mr Erich Kühnelt – SME finance expert, Austrian Economic Chamber
Chaired by: Mr Dimitris Dimitriadis – Member of Employers' Group, EESC
12.30 / Networking lunch
14.00 / Key note speech: Mr Peter Faross – Secretary General, UEAPME
14.15
16.00
16.30 / Roundtable 2: Regulation: impediment or incentive for co-operative banks to finance SMEs?
Panelists:
-  Mr Sergio Gatti, General Manager, Federazione Italiana delle Banche di Credito Cooperativo
-  Ms Isabelle Vaillant – Director of Regulation, EBA
-  Mr Niall Bohan – Head of Unit, Bank regulation and supervision, EU Commission
-  Mr Gerhard Huemer – Director Economic Policy, UEAPME
-  Mr Edgardo Maria Iozia – Member of Employees' Group, EESC
-  Mr Carlos Trias Pintó – Rapporteur on "The role of cooperative and savings banks in territorial cohesion", President of the CCMI, EESC
Chaired by: Mr Staffan Nilsson – Member of Various Interests Group, EESC
Closing Remarks
-  Mr Hervé Guider – General Manager, EACB
-  Mr Othmar Karas – Member of the European Parliament
End of the Forum
Interpretation from ES-EN-FR-IT into EN-FR-IT