PROGRAMME

The Challenge of Sustainable Mobility: A Concrete Response of Regions to Climate Change

4-5 November 2008 • Committee of the Regions – 99/101 rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels

4 NovembER 2008

2.00 pm Welcome coffee

2.30 pm Opening session Opening remarks by Representatives of the Regional Councils Speech by José Macário Correia , Member of the Committee of the Regions, Author of the Opinion on the Freight transport package Speech by Silvia-Adriana Ticău, Member of the , Member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Member of the Committee on Climate Change

Setting the scientific framework Philippe Marbaix, Climatologist, Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Université Catholique de Louvain Climate change: a presentation of the major issues and challenges

3.30 pm Coffee break

Technologies for more sustainable transport Moderator : Sylvain Haon, Executive Director, European network POLIS

3.45 pm Technologies for cleaner vehicles - Franz-Xaver Söldner, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, Clean transport and urban transport Unit The ’s initiatives to promote cleaner transport - Jean-François Macaire, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes The regional call for proposals to create a low-cost electric vehicle - Bernadette Rovire, Director, Premium Cars Competitiveness Cluster The Celastofib project: using environmentally-friendly materials to make greener vehicles and improve the acoustics

4.40 pm Technologies for more intelligent transport systems - Gzim Ocakoglu, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, Intelligent Transport Systems Unit State of progress in the preparation of the Intelligent Transport Systems Action Plan - Gilles Bontemps, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire Destineo: the successful story of a regional multimodal journey planner - Isabelle Dussutour, Director, ITS Bretagne Experimentations of Intelligent Transport Systems in Brittany

5.30 pm Cocktail 5 November 2008

9.30 am Safer maritime transport Moderator : Nicolas Gros-Verheyde, Journalist, Europolitics and Ouest

- Yann Hélary, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire The Erika trial: chronology of an interregional mobilisation - Janick Moriceau, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Bretagne Aquamarina: European Regions promoting maritime security - Dirk Sterckx, Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the part of the Erika III package dealing with vessel monitoring and ports of refuge The European Parliament and the Erika III package - Philippe Dumont, Advisor on Transport, Permanent Representation of France to the European Union Status of the discussions on the Erika III package

10.45 am Coffee break

11.15 am Taking on the challenge of multimodality: the regional experience Moderator : Klaus Ebeling, Secretary General, European Intermodal Association

- Inés Ayala Sender, Member of the European Parliament, Author of the report on “Freight transport logistics in Europe – the key to sustainable mobility” Multimodality in the 21st century: perspectives and initiatives - Roberto Ferravante, Head of Unit (acting), European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, Logistics, innovation and co-modality Unit The European Commission’s perspectives on multimodality - Representative of the Regional Council of Bretagne Towards a regional Strategy for multimodal transport - Philippe Dutruc, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Deux-Sèvres (Poitou-Charentes) The “Niort terminal” multimodal platform project - Yannick Vaugrenard, Member of the European Parliament, 1st Vice-President of the Regional Council of Pays de la Loire Feedback on the EIB loan allocated to the Pays de la Loire Region for railway upgrading

12.45 pm End of the conference

Working languages: French and English