ASSEMBLEA PARLAMENTARE DELL’UNIONE PER IL MEDITERRANEO

PRESIDENZA ITALIANA

PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN (PA-UfM) 7th PLENARY SESSION , Palazzo Montecitorio, 3-4 March 2011

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Thursday, 3rd March 2011

8:30 a.m. Registration of delegates

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 Coordination meeting of EU delegations a.m.

Committee Meetings

10:30 a.m. – 1:30 Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human p.m. Rights 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 Committee on Improving the Quality of Life, p.m. Exchanges between Civil Societies and Culture 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 Committee on Women’s Rights in Euromed countries p.m.

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 Buffet lunch p.m.

3:00 p.m. – 6:00 Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs, Social p.m. Affairs and Education 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 Committee on Energy, Environment and Water p.m.

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Meetings of the Bureau and the Enlarged Bureau

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 Meeting of the Bureau p.m. 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 Meeting of the Bureau enlarged to include the Chairs p.m. of Committees and Working Groups 8:30 p.m. Dinner in honour of guest delegations

Friday, 4th March 2011

Plenary Session

8:15 a.m. Registration of delegates

Opening of Proceedings: The Union of the Mediterranean and Current Developments in the Region

9:00 a.m. – Adoption of the agenda 11:00 a.m. Adoption of the minutes of the 6th Plenary Session which took place in Amman in March 2010 , President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic Renato Schifani, President of the Senate of the Italian Republic Franco Frattini, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Mostafa Kamal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdelwahed Radi, President of the Chamber of Representatives of the Kingdom of Morocco Jerzy Buzek, President of the Abdul Hadi Al Majali, Senator of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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Philippe Maystadt, President of the EIB Debate

1st Session: Immigration and Integration Policies

11:00 a.m. – Keynote speaker: 12:15 p.m. William Lacy Swing, Director General – International Organisation for Migration Debate

2nd Session: Environment Protection Policies in the Mediterranean

12:15 p.m. – Keynote speaker: 1:30 p.m. Corrado Clini, Director General for Sustainable Development, Climate and Energy of the Italian Ministry for the Environment Debate

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 Buffet lunch p.m.

3rd Session: Financial Instruments for the Development of the Region

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 Keynote speaker: p.m. Charles Milhaud, Former Chair of the High-level Working Group on the Financing of co-development in the Mediterranean, established by the President of the French Republic Debate

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Presentation and Adoption of Recommendations of PA-UfM Committees and of Proposed Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly

4:30 p.m. – 7:00 Contributions by the Chairs of Committees and of the p.m. Working Group on Financing of the Assembly and Revision of PA-UfM Rules of procedure

Debate

Approval of Committee recommendations and of the proposals of the Working Group on Financing of the Assembly and Revision of PA-UfM Rules of procedure

Closing of proceedings 7:00 p.m. –  Transfer of the Presidency of the PA-UfM to 7:30 p.m. Abdelwahad RADI, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Morocco  Speech by Abdelwahad RADI, President of the PA-UfM