1st SINGLE MARKET FORUM Krakow, POLAND

2-4 October 2011

Single Market Fair: The Igloo in the main market square

Mr Malcolm HARBOUR IMCO Chair, visiting the Igloo

The European Parliament Stand at the Single Market Fair

Polska Project Stand ECC-Net Stand SOLVIT Stand Preparatory Meeting before the Forum

Mr , Polish Deputy Prime Minister, and Mr Malcolm Harbour at the formal opening of the Single Market Fair

Formal opening of the Single Market Fair

3 October

Single Market Fair

Awarding of the prize ‘Union Without Barriers’

From left to right: Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein, Ms Diana Wallis and Mr Rafal Trzaskowski, Members of the European Parliament and Mr Malcolm Harbour

From left to right: Mr Rafal Trzaskowski, Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein, Mr Malcolm Harbour, and Mr Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services

With the winners of the prize

From left to right: Ms Constance Le Grip, Mr Malcolm Harbour, Mr Rafal Trzaskowski and Ms Diana Wallis, Members of the European Parliament

3 October

The Forum The entrance of the Auditorium Maximum, Jagiellonian University

From left to right: Ms Jutta Steinruck, Mr Hans-Peter Mayer, Ms Diana Wallis, Ms Evelyne Gebhardt, Ms Heide Rühle, Mr Malcolm Harbour, Mr Louis Grech and Mr Edvard Kožušník, Members of the European Parliament

Mr Malcolm Harbour and Mr Louis Grech From left to right: Ms Jutta Steinruck, Ms Heide Rühle and Mr Hans-Peter Mayer

Before the official opening of the Forum

From left to right: Mr Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, Mr Malcolm Harbour and Mr Waldemar Pawlak, Deputy

From left to right: Mr Hans-Peter Mayer, Mr Jerzy Buzek, Ms Diana Wallis, Mr Edvard Kožušník, Mr Malcolm Harbour and Ms Jutta Steinruck

From left to right: Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein, Mr Jerzy Buzek, Mr Waldemar Pawlak, Mr Malcolm Harbour and Mr Michel Barnier

3 October

The opening of the Forum Speech by Mr Waldemar Pawlak Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

Speech by Mr Jerzy Buzek President of the European Parliament

Speech by Mr Michel Barnier Commissioner for Internal Market and Services

Front row: Mr Buzek and Mr Pawlak

Middle row (left to right): Ms Steinruck, Ms Gebhardt , Mr Mayer, Ms Vergnaud, Ms Rühle and Mr Kožušník

3 October

Declaration by the Polish Youth

Mr Barnier, Mr Pawlak, Mr Trzaskowski and Ms Thun und Hohenstein with the winners of the ‘Union without barriers’ prize

3 October

The Forum

‘Tell us your story’

Screening of the winning stories

Ms Jacki Davis (Moderator) introducing the five winners of the ‘Tell us your story’ competition

3 October

The Forum

The presentation of ‘20 main concerns of citizens and enterprises in the Single Market’

Speech by Mr Louis Grech

3 October

The Forum

Panel Discussion

Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein and Mr Malcolm Harbour

From left to right: Mr Louis Grech, Mr Waldemar Pawlak, Ms Jacki Davis, Mr Michel Barnier, Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein and Mr Malcolm Harbour

Mr Louis Grech and Mr Waldemar Pawlak

From left to right: Mr Michel Barnier, Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein and Mr Malcolm Harbour

The Panellists Mr Malcolm Harbour interviewed Workshops Workshop on Professional Qualifications Ms Bernardette Vergnaud Member of the European Parliament

Workshop on Professional Qualifications Mr Malcolm Harbour

Workshop on Professional Qualifications In the centre: Ms Constance Le Grip Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Online Dispute Resolution Ms Diana Wallis (right)

Ms Jacqueline Minor Moderator of the Workshop on ADR

Workshop on Points of Single Contact The Panel Workshop on E-Commerce Mr Pablo Arias Echeverría, Member of the European Parliament (left) and panellists

Workshop on E-Commerce Ms Anna Maria Corazza Bildt Member of the European Parliament

Workshop on E-Commerce Intervention by the audience Workshop on Posting of Workers and Fundamental Social Rights

The Panel Key speech by Ms Evelyne Gebhardt (centre)

Ms Iliana Ivanova Member of the European Parliament

Ms Evelyne Gebhardt The audience Workshop on Public Procurement Ms Joanna Szychowska European Commission (Moderator)

Workshop on Public Procurement Mr António Correia de Campos (left) Member of the European Parliament

Workshop on Public Procurement Ms Heide Rühle

Workshop on Bridging the gap between citizens and the Single Market Emer Daly, European Commission (Moderator) and Mr Louis Grech

Workshop on Bridging the gap between citizens and the Single Market Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein

The audience Intervention by the audience The audience Workshop on Citizens’ Rights

The Panel Mr Cristian Silviu Buşoi Member of the European Parliament

4 October

Reports from the Workshops

The Rapporteurs The audience Mr António Correia de Campos and Mr Maciej Szpunar, Polish Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ms Susanne Bo Christensen, Internal Market Centre (Denmark), Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein and Mr António Correia de Campos

Ms Bernardette Vergnaud

Mr António Correia de Campos

Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein

Mr Malcolm Harbour, Mr Joe Dunne, Head of the IMCO Secretariat and the IMCO Team

4 October

Krakow Declaration on the Single Market Mr Malcolm Harbour, Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, Mr John Dalli, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy and Mr Marcin Korolec, Polish Under-Secretary of State

Left to right: Ms Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Mr Hans-Peter Mayer, Mr Louis Grech, Ms Jutta Steinruck, Ms Evelyne Gebhardt, Ms Constance Le Grip and Ms Bernardette Vergnaud

The winners of the ‘Tell us your story’ competition delivering the Krakow Declaration

Surprise intervention by Mr Malcolm Harbour

Mr Malcolm Harbour and Mr Marcin Korolec

Mr Malcolm Harbour promoting the IMCO Newsletter and ‘The friends of IMCO Network’

Speech by Mr Marcin Korolec

4 October

First Panel Debate The Panel Mr Marcin Korolec Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Economy of Poland

From left to right: Mr John Dalli, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, Mr Malcolm Harbour, Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and Mr Staffan Nilsson, President of the European Economical and Social Committe

Mr Arnoldas Abramavičius Chair of the Commission for Economic and Social Policy Committee of the Regions

Mr Staffan Nilsson President of the European Economical and Social Committee

Ms Róza Thun und Hohenstein and Mr Andreas Schwab Members of the European Parliament

The audience Ms Jacki Davis and Mr John Dalli

4 October

Conclusion of the Forum Closing Speech by Mr John Dalli

Mr Korolec, Ms Thun und Hohenstein, Ms Corazza Bildt and Mr Mayer

Ms Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Mr Louis Grech and Ms Evelyne Gebhardt

Mr Louis Grech and Mr Pablo Arias Echeverría

Members present during the Forum

MembersDiana attendedWALLIS (Vice-President of the European Parliament - ALDE) Malcolm HARBOUR (Chairman of the IMCO Committee – ECR)

Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA (EPP)

Anna Maria CORAZZA-BILDT (EPP) Iliana IVANOVA (EPP) Constance LE GRIP (EPP)

Hans-Peter MAYER (EPP) Andreas SCHWAB (EPP) Małgorzata HANDZLIK (EPP) Róża VON THUN UND HOHENSTEIN (EPP)

Rafał TRZASKOWSKI (EPP)

António Fernando CORREIA DE CAMPOS (S&D)

Evelyne GEBHARDT (S&D)

Louis GRECH (S&D)

Bernadette VERGNAUD (S&D) Jutta STEINRÜCK (S&D) Cristian Silviu BUŞOI (ALDE)

Edvard KOŽUŠNÍK (ECR)

Heide RÜHLE (Greens/EFA)