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THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF A GENUINE
SINGLE MARKET FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
Conference exploring the banking “passport”,
pensions and money laundering issues
The Irish Centre for European Law
in conjunction with
ERA – The Academy of European Law
and with the kind support of
The Office of the Attorney General of Ireland
Invites you to a conference
on
15-16 November 2005
at
The Conference Centre
Dublin Castle
This major conference will focus on the ongoing efforts to achieve a genuine
internal market in financial services in the EEA. Emphasis will, in particular,
be placed on investment services and pensions. The conference will interest
all lawyers and advisers, both external and in-house, concerned by
developments in financial services law in Ireland and at European level.
Continuous Professional Development: 10 Hours Group Study
(Certificates of attendance will be issued)
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
8.15am
REGISTRATION
9.00am
Opening Address
Mr Rory Brady SC, Attorney General of Ireland
Session I -The Pressures on Financial Services
Chair: Mr Rory Brady SC
9.15am
Financial Services in a European and Global Framework
Mr Sven Genter, DG internal Market and Services, European
Commission, Brussels
10.00am
The Integration Process of European Financial Markets
Prof. Mads Andenas, University of Leicester and Institute of
European and Comparative Law, London
11.00am
REFRESHMENT BREAK
Session II New Efforts Toward Financial Stability and Harmonisation
11.30am
Chair: The Hon Ms Justice Fidelma Macken, The Supreme Court
(Invited)
The Single Passport for Investment Services
Prof. Mads Andenas
12.30pm
LUNCH
(lunch is included in the registration fee)
Session II continued –
2.00pm
Chair: The Hon Ms Justice Fidelma Macken
The Investment Fund Industry – A Luxembourgish perspective
Mr Rudolf Koemen, Managing Director of SEB Invest Luxembourg
S.A., Luxembourg (Invited)
3.00pm
Pensions and Insurance: financial market harmonisation
Dr Paulina Dejmek, DG Internal Market and Services, European
Commission, Brussels
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 (Cont.)
4.00pm
REFRESHMENT BREAK
4.30pm
The Prospectus Directive
Ms Deirdre Somers, Director of Listings, Irish Stock Exchange,
Dublin
5.30pm
The Market Abuse Directive
Mr Finbarr Murphy, Group Legal Advisor, Bank of Ireland, Dublin
6.15pm
End of first conference day
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
Session III – Current Perspectives
Chair: The Hon. Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, The Supreme Court
9.00am
Irish Implementation of a Single Market for Financial Services
Dr Liam O’Reilly, Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services
Regulatory Authority, (IFSRA), Dublin
9.45am
Implications of the Third Money Laundering Directive
Dr John Breslin BL, Law Library
10.30am
REFRESHMENT BREAK
11.00am
The Free Movement of Financial Services and Capital: the
developing case-law of the European Court of Justice
Mr Noel Travers BL, ICEL & Law Library,and Mr Richard Crowe,
Head of European Public Law Section, Academy of European Law,
Trier
12.00pm
Further Harmonisation of European Financial Markets – Prospects
and Obstacles
Final Panel Discussion
1.30pm
Closing Words – The Hon. Mr Justice Nial Fennelly
END OF CONFERENCE
Speaker Profiles
Professor Mads Andenas joined the University of Leicester in 2005. He was the Director of
the British Institute in International and Comparitive Law, University of Oxford (1999-2005).
Previously, he had been at King’s College, University of London (since 1991), first as
Lecturer-in-law, then as Senior Lecturer, and from 1994 as the Director of the Centre of
European Law and continued at King’s as a Visiting Professor. He is General Editor of the
International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Oxford University Press) and of European
Business Law Review (Kluwer Law International) and on the editorial boards of some ten
other law journals and book series. He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and is
also admitted as an Advokat in Norway. He is a Bencher of Inner Temple. His numerous
research interests include financial market regulation.
Mr Rory Brady SC has been Attorney General of Ireland and a member of the Council of
State of Ireland since June 2002. A graduate of UCD, he was called to the Irish Bar in 1979
and has since been involved in many leading cases. He was called to the Inner Bar in 1996.
Mr Brady is a former Chairman of the Irish Bar Council (2000-2002) and has been a Bencher
of the Honourable Society of King’s Inns since December 2000.
Dr John Breslin BL is a member of the Irish Bar specialising in commercial, chancery and
financial services law. He is a former Lecturer-in-law at UCD and is author of the leading Irish
text on banking law, Banking Law in the Republic of Ireland, (1998).
Mr Richard Crowe is a graduate of the University of Limerick and the College of Europe
(Bruges), where he specialised in the free movement of investment services. He was called
to the Irish Bar in 1998 and has been a member of the Academy of European Law (Trier)
since September 2000. He has been Head of the Academy’s European Public & Criminal
Law Section since January 2005.
Dr Paulina Dejmek is a senior Commission official working in DG Internal Market and
Services, Unit 2, Insurance and Pensions.
The Hon. Mr Justice Nial Fennelly is a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland. Nial Fennelly
practised at the Bar from 1964 to 1995. He was Chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland for
the period 1990 to 1991. He was appointed Advocate General at the Court of Justice in 1995,
where he served until 2000, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court. He is Chairman
of the Irish Centre for European Law, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of
European Law at Trier, and President of the Irish Society for European Law. He is also
Chairman of the Working Group on the Jurisdiction of the Courts. Mr Justice Fennelly has a
very strong interest in European Law and has maintained a keen interest in developments in
financial services VAT law since his time as a member of the Court of Justice.
Ms Sven Genter is a senior Commission official working in DG Internal Market and Services,
European Commission, Brussels.
Mr Rudolf Koeman is Managing Director of SEB Invest Luxembourg S.A., Luxembourg
The Honourable Mrs Justice Fidelma Macken is a former judge of the Court of Justice
(1999-2004) and of the Irish High Court. She was appointed to the Irish Supreme Court
earlier this year. Judge Macken is a member of the Board of the ICEL and was formerly a
leading Irish commercial senior counsel. She is also a former lecturer-in-law at TCD.
Speaker Profiles (cont.)
Mr Finbarr Murphy BL is Group Law Agent with the Bank of Ireland plc. He is a former
lecturer-in-law, specialising in EC law, at the Law Faculty, UCD and author (with Judge Brian
McMahon) of European Community Law in Ireland (1989) and editor of the Irish Journal of
European Law. Mr Murphy maintains a very keen interest in all aspects of EC law, especially
developments in EC financial services law.
Dr Liam O’Reilly is Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority
(IFSRA). He has served at a senior level in the Irish Central Bank in economic research,
financial control, international relations and financial markets. He served on the review group
on auditing in Ireland and was a member of the interim board of the Irish auditing and
accounting supervisory authority which prepared the legislation to set up a Statutory
Supervisory Body for the Accountancy Profession.
Deirdre Somers is Director of Listing at the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) with responsibility for
corporate, debt and investment fund listings. She has advised on and participated in EU
Council working sessions on the Prospectus and Transparency Directives and has been
closely involved with IFSRA on the Committee of European Securities Regulators work on
prospectus disclosure, chairing subgroups on structured debt and investment funds. She is a
Member of the Company Law Review Group and co-chair of the Plc Committee of CLRG
which has responsibility for oversight of the implementation of EU Directives into Irish
company law. A chartered accountant by profession, prior to joining the ISE in 1995, she
specialised in international tax with KPMG.
Mr Noel J. Travers is a practising barrister and Director of the ICEL. Called to the Irish Bar in
1991, he is a former lecturer-in-law (1990-1995) and Associate Dean (1992-1995) of the
Faculty of Law, UCD. He was a référendaire (legal secretary) from 1995 to 2000 to Advocate
General Nial Fennelly (as he then was) at the Court of Justice and, subsequently, from 2000
to 2003, to Judge Bo Vesterdorf, President of the Court of First Instance. In January 2004, he
returned to Ireland, resumed legal practice at the Bar and took up the directorship of the
ICEL. He has published widely in various academic journals primarily about EC law and is a
Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, UCD. He is representing Ireland in the pending Fidium
Finance case before the Court of Justice (Case C- C-452/04) concerning financial services.
ICEL/ERA Conference – The Ongoing Development of a Genuine
Single Market for Financial Services
on Tuesday and Wednesday 15 & 16 November 2005
To reserve a place at this conference:
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