CANCELLED : S&D IMCO Workshop on Product Safety, Traceability and Origin, Brussel - Hoofdinhoud

CANCELLED

Regretfully we have to inform you that due to a problem at the airport of Zaventem which prevents the rapporteur and the speakers coming from outside Belgium to arrive on time in Brussels (several flights cancelled due to electricity cut) we have to cancel the S&D event on the "Product Safety, Traceability and Origin - the Made-in marking of origin" which was scheduled for this afternoon at 16h30.

S&D IMCO Workshop on Product safety, traceability and origin - The Made-in marking of origin for enhanced consumer information and European business competitiveness.

Date: 27/05/2015 - Time: 16.30-18.30, in Room A3G-2 / S&D web streaming

I - 16h30 - 17h00

Welcome speech:

Gianni PITTELLA S&D Group President

Presentation:

Vera JOUROVA, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality

Christel SCHALDEMOSE S&D IMCO Rapporteur

Event chaired by Evelyne GEBHARDT, S&D IMCO Coordinator

II - 17h00 - 18h20

Bernardo HERNANDEZ BATALLER, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

Giovanni SANTI, President of BESTE, Textile company, Italy

Christian WETTERBERG, Director of External Relations/Corporate Affairs at the LEGO Group, and Chair of the CEN Toy Safety

Kathleen WALKER SHAW, GMB Trade Union official

Markus WIESNER, President of European Furniture Industries Confederation

Dean BARLOW, Head of Manufacturing & Compliance, The Denby Pottery Company, UK

Q&A session

III - 18h20 - 18h30

Conclusions by the Chair Evelyne Gebhardt, S&D IMCO Coordinator

Registration:

You are kindly invited to register your presence with s-d.imco@ep.europa.eu by 26 May at 17h00, and provide all the necessary information for creating your EP badge (name, surname, date of birth, nationality and ID number).