Hemicycle of the European Parliament - Programme
A NEW SPACE POLICY FOR EUROPE
New challenges, new opportunities
All persons mentioned with “tbc” in the present programme are to be confirmed
Day 1 – 26 October
9.00 - 09.30Opening of the Conference
- Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament
- Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council
- Antonio Tajani, Vice-president of the European Commission (tbc)
- Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency
- Philippe Maystadt, President of the European Investment Bank
- Mercedes Bresso, President of the European Committee of the Regions
09.30 - 11.15Session 1
A new governance for the European space infrastructures
In entrusting the Union with the duty to “establish a European space policy” and, in order to do that, to establish “any useful link with the European Space Agency”, art. 189 of the Lisbon Treaty leads to a global redefining of the competences and responsibilities of the three main EU institutions in the working out, the financing, the steering and the control of this new common policy as well as a part or global redefinition of ESA status and role, destined to keep on playing, for reasons of technological and industrial expertise, a key role in the management of programmes. Which governance for public and commercial exploitation of Galileo? GMES? Which rules of responsibility, confidentiality, etc in the relationship between the European authorities and their industrial partners?
Keynote speakers :
- Vittorio Prodi, Chairman of the « Sky & Space » Intergroup in the European Parliament
- Eric Beka, Belgian High Representative for space policy
- Heinz Zourek, Director General of DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
- Giuseppe Morsillo, Head of the political bureau of the Director General of ESA
- Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Administrator of DLR (Germany)
- Yannick d’Escatha, President of CNES (France)
- Enrico Saggese, President of ASI (Italy)
- Lars Prahm, Director General of Eumetsat
11.30 - 13.00Session 2
From a straight supply policy to a genuine industrial policy
ESA has heavily contributed to the preservation of the current positions of the European space stakeholders thanks to a supply policy of public programmes resting on the practice of “fair return”. The perspective of an evolution of ESA’s status and role as well as a revision of this formula of markets allocation as well as other requirements such as the need to guarantee a sufficient autonomy in the mastering of the R&D of technologies leading to industrial applications and high added value services beyond the strict space sector activity or else the chances of overcapacities in a couple of industrial segments at a time where competition from non European industries strongly supported by public authorities is on the increase, all those factors pose, with gravity and urgency, the question of the type of industrial policy to be conducted by the EU. As regard also the competition regulations, public markets directives and the principle of “Community preference”.
Keynote speakers :
- Herbert Reul, Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament (tbc)
- Heinz Zourek, Director General of DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
- Eric Morel de Westgaver, Head of Procurement Department and Associated Director for Industrial Maters, European Space Agency
- Giovanni Sylos-Labini, President of SME4Space
- Evert Dudok, CEO Astrium Satellites
- Giuseppe Viriglio, Telespazio Chairman
- Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO, Arianespace
- Reynald Seznec, CEO Thales Alenia Space
- A Representative of Areva
14.30 - 16.30Session 3
Financing: public credits, private investments, commercial space
The control of public financing imposed by the economic crisis, could not spare a European space sector owing to public ordering, both national and European, the very good position it holds today at a world level. To the relevance of the choice by officials in charge of space programmes in the allocation of public credits must now be added a creative financial engineering capable of mobilizing private capital to the benefit of these space programmes as well as political and regulatory stimulants, in favour of the development of commercial applications ( telecoms, TV broadcasting, etc.) as well as non commercial ones ( meteorology, air traffic management) enabling the contribution of external financing.
Keynote speakers :
- Hervé Jouanjean, Director General DG Budget of the European Commission
- Alain Lamassoure, Chairman of the Committee on Budgets in the European Parliament
- Jutta Haug, Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Budgets in the European Parliament Chairwoman of the Special Committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (tbc)
- Constantin Christofidis, Director for Innovation and Competitiveness in the Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank
- A representative of the Belgian Presidency
- Uli Fricke, Chairwoman of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and CEO at Triangle Venture Capital Group
- Carlo Gualdaroni, Telespazio CEO
- A representative of the Satellite Operators’ Industry
16.30 - 18.00Session 4
State of play of the main European space programmes
Before the end of 2010, a first Galileo satellite should be orbited. The Commission and ESA could also have allocated all or part of the last satellites to be put on work. All other chapters, support and system engineering, mission, control, launching of constellation, are being readied. Regarding GMES, the Commission must work out, with the assistance of the GMES partners Council , a strategic implementation framework, including an indicative and multi annual planning of its activities, a cost appraisal of GMES’ activities, a preliminary budget strategy and participation rules to the programme
Keynote speakers :
- Antonio Preto, Head of Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Antonio Tajani
- Vladimir Remek, Vice-president of the « Sky & Space » Intergroup of the European Parliament
- Edit Herczog, Member of the ITRE committee of the European Parliament (tbc)
- Damien Abad, Member of the BUDG Committee of the European Parliament
- Antonio Fabrizi, Director of the launchers, European Space Agency
- Marco Fuchs, CEO of OHB-Technologie
- Ralf Nejedl, CEO T-Systems Belgium
- Mr Luigi Pasquali, Deputy CEO Thales Alenia Space, President & CEO of TAS Italy
- A representative of Arianespace
19.00 - 20.30Cocktail
offered by the Belgian High Representation for Space Policy and Eurospace
at the Museum of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Guest speaker :
- Frank De Winne, Astronaut (tbc)
Day 2 – 27 Octobre
09.00 - 09.30
Guest speaker :
- Gabriele Albertini, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament
- A High Representative of the European External Action Service
09.30 - 11.00Session 5
Space infrastructures to the service of crisis management, security and defence
The Galileo system, via its Public Regulated Service or PRS, and its two urgency services will be used for security purposes. Likewise the accuracy of the positioning data will be an efficient tool for armed forces and security. The GMES infrastructure, via the integration of the global ground installations and satellites, existing or projected, will also be a priceless tool for the accurate data it will allow to collect over numerous factors linked to security: maritime surveillance, borders control, monitoring of population forced displacements, surveillance of ground and maritime moves, etc.
Keynote speakers :
- Stefano Manservisi, Director-General of DG « Home Affairs », European Commission (tbc)
- Arnaud Danjean, Chairman of the sub-Committee « Security and Defence » of the European Parliament
- Claude France-Arnould, Deputy Director-General, Directorate « Crisis Management and planning » of the EU Council
- General C.A. Caudio de Bertolis, Deputy Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Defence
- Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency (tbc)
- Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex (tbc)
- Gaele Winters, ESA Director of Operations and infrastructures - SSA
- Fritz Merkle, member of the Board, OHB-System
- General Bernard Molard, Vice-President for Security & Defense, Astrium
- Giuseppe Aridon, Telespazio Business Development Vice President
- Jurry de la Mar, Account Director, T-Systems International
11.15 - 13.00Session 6
Space Infrastructure to the service of society
Services to road, air and sea transports; management of urban agglomerations, assistance to agriculture; innovating improvement in synchronisation procedures in the sectors of energy, of financial markets, etc.; fishing and maritime policy; civil engineering; public and social services: help to the handicapped, assistance to the sick, etc.
Keynote speakers :
- Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director Air Transport, DG Transports, European Commission
- Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit EU satellite navigation programmes – Infrastructure, European Commission
- Patrick Ky, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking
- Bo Redeborn, Director Cooperative Network Design, Eurocontrol (tbc)
- Anne E. Jensen, Member of the European Parliament (tbc)
- Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency
- Magali Vaissière, Director of Telecom and integrated applications, ESA
- Alain Beneteau, President of Nereus
- Linda Quartier, Account Director, T-Systems Belgium
- Michel de Rosen, CEO, EUTELSAT
14.30 - 16.15Session 7
Space infrastructures to the service of optimum management of the planet
Surveillance of global warming and climate changes, marine and aquatic milieus, lands (forestry, agricultural area, glaciers, ice packs, barren area, etc.), prevention of natural disasters (storms, cyclones, tsunamis, forest fires, etc.) identification of pollution threats (oil slicks, toxic clouds, water pollution, etc.) etc.
Keynote speakers :
- Jo Leinen, Chairman of the Committee on the Environment of the European Parliament
- Karl Falkenberg, Director General for Environment, European Commission
- Jacqueline Foster, Vice-president of the « Sky & Space » Intergroup of the European Parliament (tbc)
- Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
- Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency
- Paul Counet, Head of Strategy and International Relations, Eumetsat
- Jurry de la Mar, Account Director, T-Systems International
- Marcello Maranesi, E-Geos, CEO
- Joel Chenet, Senior Vice President Institutional Business Development - Thales Alenia Space
- Alain Bories, Senior Vice President Strategy and Business Development, OHB-Technology
16.30 - 17.30Session 8
The stakes of space exploration
Robot exploration of space, inhabited flights, international cooperation: political, scientific, technological, industrial, economic stakes? Available capacities and means deficiencies in Europe. Expose of reflections and projects at the outcome of the latest ministerial conference on space.
Keynote speakers :
- Paul Weissenberg, Director of DG « Enterprise and Industry », European Comission
- Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human space flight
- Potito Salatto, Vice-President of the « Sky & Space » Intergroup of the European Parliament
- Michael Menking, Senior Vice-President Orbital Systems and Space Exploration, Head of Site Bremen, Astrium
- A Representative of Areva
- A Representative of Arianespace
17.30 - 18.00Closing Session
Keynote speakers :
- Sabine Laruelle, Belgian Minister in charge of space issues, and representative of the Presidency of the EU Council (tbc)
- Joseph Daul, Chairman of the Group of the European People's Party, European Parliament
- Martin Schulz, Chairman of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, European Parliament
- Guy Verhofstadt, Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, European Parliament (tbc)
Organizing entity
Business Bridge Europe
Registered office: 205 Rue Belliard
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Contacts
Vanderauwera Joëlle
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