| DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2001 |
| 09.00-17.00 |
Registration and exhibits |
| 09.30-10.15
Ieper
Room |
OPENING OF THE
SYMPOSIUM |
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Welcome:
John
Gee, Deputy Director-General of the OPCW |
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Introduction by the General Rapporteur:
Rodrigo
Yepes-Enríquez,
Legal Adviser, OPCW |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee hosted by Kluwer Law International |
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INTRODUCTORY BRIEFING
PAPERS |
| 11.30-12.00
Ieper
Room |
1.
Forms of preventive cooperation: monitoring, international police
cooperation and customs enforcement
Speaker:
John C. Ploeg,
Policy Advisor, Economic Investigations
Department, Netherlands Ministry of Finance |
| 12.00-12.30
Ieper
Room |
2.
Forms of prosecutorial cooperation: identifying suspects, taking
testimony or statements, producing or preserving evidence, executing
requests for searches and seizures, serving or authenticating judicial
or administrative documents, transferring proceedings, extradition and
transfer of prisoners
Speaker:
Prof Bert Swart,
Professor of Criminal Law, University
of Amsterdam, Judge on the Amsterdam Court of Appeal |
| 12.30-14.00 |
Lunch |
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INTRODUCTORY
BRIEFING PAPERS (CONTINUED) |
| 14.00-14.30
Ieper Room |
3. National enforcement of international law: Overview of the international humanitarian
law and arms control treaties which may (or must) be enforced at the
national level
Speaker: Maria Teresa Dutli, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Advisory Service in International Humanitarian Law |
| 14.30-15.00
Ieper
Room |
4. National legislation to implement legal assistance
and cooperation
Speaker: Prof Barry Kellman, Co-Director, International Criminal Justice and Weapons
Control Center, DePaul University College of Law |
| 15.00-15.30
Ieper
Room |
5. Legal Assistance: The Chemical Weapons Convention
and Complementary Agreements
Speaker: Cecil Hunt, Deputy Chief Counsel for Export Administration, United States
Department of Commerce |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.30 |
PARALLEL
WORKING SESSIONS |
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THEME
A: JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES (The problem in applying and enforcing
prohibitions under the CWC to individuals: a cross-sectoral approach,
looking at accumulated experience. Emphasis is on the need to have
legislation in place and adherence to the appropriate legal instruments
in order to be in a position to cooperate effectively) |
| Ieper
Room |
A.1
Case studies: extradition and special challenges to administrations
in transition
Chair: Prof Bert Swart,
Professor of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam, Judge on the
Amsterdam Court of Appeal
Rapporteur: Dr. Nina Jørgensen, Research Fellow in international criminal law, Leiden
University
Panelists:
David
Bazerashvili, Adviser,
International Legal Relations Department, Ministry of Justice of Georgia
Ihor Drizhchany, Head of the Department of International Relations of the
Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine
JUDr. Jaroslava Novotná, Director, International Legal Assistance
Department, Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Czech Republic
Prof Dr John Dugard, Director of the Public International
Law Programme, Leiden University
Kimberly Prost, Head, Criminal Law Unit, Deputy Director, Legal
and Constitutional Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Room
007/009 |
A.2 Case studies: concurrent jurisdiction
Chair:
Rodrigo Yepes-Enríquez,
Legal Adviser, OPCW
Rapporteur: Matthias Neuner, Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) Office of the Prosecutor
Panelists:
Mohamed
Othman, General Prosecutor, United Nations Transitional
Administration in East Timor
Fabricio
Guariglia, Legal Officer (Appeals), International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Prof
Dr Horst Fischer,
Universities of Bochum and Leiden |
| 18.00-19.30 |
Reception
hosted by Wim J. Deetman, the Mayor of The Hague in The Hague Municipal
Museum |
| DAY TWO: THURSDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 2001 |
| 09.30-11.00 |
PARALLEL WORKING
SESSIONS: THEME A |
| Room
007/009 |
A.3
Case studies: cooperation with or between international organisations
in the enforcement of international criminal law
Chair: Prof
Michail Wladimiroff,
Wladimiroff Waling Schreuders
Rapporteur: Avril
McDonald, Editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
Panelists:
Harriet
Solloway, Senior Legal Advisor, Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo
Daphna
Shraga, Senior
Legal Officer, United Nations Office of the Legal Counsel
Daryl
A. Mundis,
Legal Officer, International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) |
| Ieper
Room |
A.4
Intrusive international control regimes and breaches of confidentiality:
aspects of the exercise of national jurisdiction
Chair: Prof
Dr E.J. Myjer, University
of Utrecht
Rapporteur:
Samir Mechken,
Legal Assistant, OPCW
Panelists:
Camilo
Sanhueza Bezanilla, Chairman of the OPCW Confidentiality Commission
Prof
Treasa Dunworth,
Auckland University Law School, paper presented by Matthew Broadhead,
Alternate Representative of New Zealand to
the OPCW
Laura
Rockwood, Senior
Legal Officer, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Faiza
Patel-King, Senior Policy Officer, OPCW
Prof
Paul Szasz, New
York University School of Law |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.00 |
PARALLEL
WORKING SESSIONS
THEME B: MODALITIES
OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COOPERATION (between States; between States and international
tribunals; between States and international organisations; and between
international organisations) |
| Ieper
Room |
B.1
Gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses in an international
context: practical aspects
Chair:
Prof Dr Horst Fischer,
Universities of Bochum and Leiden
Rapporteur:
Lisa
Tabassi, Senior
Legal Assistant, OPCW
Panelists:
Robert
Reid, Investigations Commander, International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Harriet
Solloway, Senior
Legal Advisor, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Mission in Kosovo
Prof
Michail Wladimiroff,
Wladimiroff Waling Schreuders |
| Room
007/009 |
B.2
The police component (international and national perspectives)
Chair: Mr Gert-Jan van Hegelsom, Head of the Department of International and Legal Policy Affairs,
Ministry of Defence
Rapporteur:
Brigitta Exterkate, Senior Legal Officer, OPCW
Panelists:
Willy
Bruggeman, Deputy Director, Europol
Roberto
Maroto, Interpol
Clemence
Masango, Legal Adviser to the Zimbabwe
Commissioner of Police
Dr.
Yasuo Seto,
National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan |
| 13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30-16.00
Ieper
Room |
PARALLEL WORKING SESSIONS
B.3
Transboundary criminal activity: the consequences for national criminal
law systems
Chair: Rodrigo
Yepes-Enríquez, Legal Adviser, OPCW
Rapporteur: Monica Martinez, Associate Legal Officer, Special Assistant
to the Deputy Registrar, International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Panelists:
Horstpeter
Kreppel, Legal Office of the European
Commission
MMag.
Harald Felgenhauer,
Europol Legal Affairs Unit
Mtshana
M. Ncube, Special
Assistant to the Director-General for Legal Affairs, OPCW |
| Room
007/009 |
B.4
International cooperation in protection against terrorism
Chair: Hans-Jürgen
Bartsch, Head of the Dept of Crime Problems,
Council of Europe
Rapporteur:
Stephen Lustig,
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Panelists:
Roberto
Maroto, Interpol
Alex
Schmid, UN Centre
for International Crime Protection
Prof
Barry Kellman, International Criminal Justice and Weapons Control Institute,
De Paul University College of Law |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee break |
| 16.30-18.00 |
PARALLEL
WORKING SESSIONS
THEME
C: CHALLENGES TO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COOPERATION |
| Room
007/009 |
C.1
Customs enforcement and initiatives to strengthen regimes, development
of regional coordination and cooperation
Chair: Helma Nepperus, Director of Tax and Customs, Netherlands
Ministry of Finance
Rapporteur:
Maria-Luisa
Martinod-Jacome,
Legal Officer, OPCW
Panelists:
Stephen
R. Karangizi, Legal Counsel, Common Market for Eastern
and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Ercan
Saka, Senior Technical Officer, World Customs
Organisation (WCO) Compliance/Enforcement Sub-Directorate
Daniel
Feakes, Harvard-Sussex
Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation
CDR Stephen Flynn, Commander, U.S.
Coast Guard, Senior Fellow for National Security,
Council on Foreign Relations |
| Ieper
Room |
C.2
Prosecution of individual violators of the Chemical Weapons Convention:
scope and possible legal frameworks for compliance with Article VII(2)
Chair: Prof
Dr John Dugard,
Leiden University Faculty of Law
Rapporteur:
Pamela Mills, Harvard-Sussex
Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation
Panelists:
Peter
McRae, Legal Adviser to the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
Prof
Matthew Meselson,
Harvard-Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation
Prof
Paul Szasz, New York University School of Law
Lisa
Tabassi, Senior
Legal Assistant, OPCW |
| DAY THREE: FRIDAY, 9 FEBRUARY 2001 |
| 09.30-11.00
Ieper Room |
PARALLEL WORKING SESSIONS
C.3
Overcoming obstacles in achieving wide adherence to multilateral
instruments for judicial cooperation and assistance:
Chair:
Prof T Maluwa, Legal Counsel, Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Rapporteur: Hafida Lahiouel, Associate Legal Officer, Chambers, International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Panelists:
Victor
Philip La Corbiniere,
Legal Counsel to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch,
Head of the Department of Crime Problems, Council of Europe
Eduardo A. Bertoni,
United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime
and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) and former Cabinet Adviser to
the Minister of Justice of Argentina
Kimberly
Prost, Head, Criminal
Law Unit, Deputy Director, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division,
Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Room
007/009 |
C.4
Confidentiality and the protection of national security or confidential
business information in judicial proceedings
Chair: Prof Barry Kellman, Co-Director, International Criminal Justice and Weapons Control
Center, DePaul University College of Law
Rapporteur: Faiza
Patel-King, Senior Policy Officer, OPCW
Panelists:
Nancy Paterson,
Acting Senior Trial Attorney, International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Office of the Prosecutor
Richard Burgess,
Legal Consultant to Dupont Co.
John A. Gilbert,
Manager, Arms Control Compliance Division, Science Applications International
Corporation
Prof Dr E.J. Myjer,
University of Utrecht
|
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.00
Room
007/009 |
Roundtable of Legal
Advisers of international organisations: multilateral initiatives for
the prevention or prosecution of crime
Chair:
Rodrigo Yepes-Enríquez, Legal Adviser, OPCW
Legal Advisers:
Prof
T Maluwa, Legal
Counsel, Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Victor
Philip La Corbiniere, Legal
Counsel, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Stephen
R. Karangizi,
Legal Counsel, Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Peter
McRae,
Legal Adviser, Preparatory Commission to the Comprehensive
Nuclear Test-ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
Pavel
Suian,
Legal Adviser, the Basel Convention
Secretariat
Hans-Jürgen
Bartsch, Head
of the Department of Crime Problems, Council of Europe
Harriet
Solloway, Senior Legal Advisor, Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo
CLOSING |
