ANNUAL FORUM ON COMBATING CORRUPTION IN THE EU 2014

Contents
Speakers and chairs
This Annual Forum on Combating Corruption in the EU will
debate how best to ensure effective detection,
investigation and prosecution of corruption, with special
regard to new prevention and investigation techniques.
The tackling of corruption, especially in an international
context, suffers from a lack of effective investigation
techniques and means of enforcement, resulting in
inadequate compliance.
International regulation is slowly recognising these deficits
and is attempting to address them through new initiatives,
notably the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Within the European Union several initiatives have been
taken. In 2011 the European Commission adopted the socalled ‘anti-corruption package’, a set of measures to
address more vigorously the serious harm generated by
corruption at economic, social and political levels. One year
later, in March 2012, the new proposal for a Directive on
freezing and confiscation was published and in 2013 OLAF
published a Study aimed at collecting information and
developing methodologies to assist both the Commission
and Member States' authorities with the implementation of
the new EU anti-corruption policies.
Laviero Buono, Head of Section, European Criminal
Law, ERA, Trier
Key topics
Lothar Kuhl, Head of Unit D.1, Policy Development,
OLAF, European Commission, Brussels
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European and international legal framework for
combating corruption and protecting the EU’s
financial interests
National experiences and new techniques in
prosecuting offences affecting the EU's financial
interests and key challenges for prosecutions
Assisting Member States' authorities with the
implementation of the new EU anti-corruption
policies
Developing a comprehensive methodology to
measure the real costs of corruption in selected
sectors of the economy
New investigation techniques in criminalising
active and passive corruption carried out in the
course of business activities
Who should attend?
Judges, prosecutors, ministry officials, lawyers in private
practice, police officers and policymakers.
For further information
Liviu Chirita, Head of Fraud Prevention at UniCredit
Tiriac Bank S.A.; Chairman of the Antifraud Committee
of the Romanian Banking Association, Bucharest
David J Dickson, Solicitor Advocate, Crown Office, EJN
Contact Point, Edinburgh
Wolfgang Heusel, Director, ERA, Trier
Michael Hopmeier, Judge, Kingston Crown Court,
London
Rudy Hoskens, Partner, PwC Risk & Compliance,
Brussels
Anca Jurma, Chief Prosecutor, Service for International
Cooperation, National Anticorruption Directorate,
Bucharest
Giovanni Kessler, Director General, OLAF, European
Commission, Brussels
Marco Loretti, Investigations Team Leader, Fraud
Investigations Division, European Investment Bank (EIB),
Luxembourg
Alexandra Maruna, Public Prosecutor, Vienna
Pedro Pereira, Senior Asset Recovery Specialist, Basel
Institute on Governance, Basel
Reinhard Priebe, Director, Internal Security, DG Home,
European Commission, Brussels
Wolfgang Rau, Executive Secretary, Group of States
against Corruption (GRECO), Council of Europe,
Strasbourg
Paweł Rutkowski, Expert Coordinator for
International Cooperation, Cabinet of the Head, Central
Anticorruption Bureau (CBA), Warsaw (invited)
Filippo Spiezia, Deputy National Anti-Mafia
Prosecutor, Rome
ANNUAL FORUM ON
COMBATING CORRUPTION
IN THE EU 2014
NEW PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION
TECHNIQUES
Trier, 27-28 February 2014
ERA Conference Centre
Metzer Allee 4, Trier, Germany
Organiser: Laviero Buono, ERA
This event has been co-financed by the
European Commission (OLAF) under the
Hercule II Programme
Languages:
English, French and German
(simultaneous interpretation)
Event number: 314DT77
Ute Beissel (E-mail: [email protected])
Tel. +49 (0)651 937 37 320 / Fax. +49 (0)651 937 37 773
Online registration: www.era.int
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Thursday, 27 February 2014
08:30
Arrival and registration of participants
INVESTIGATING, PROSECUTING AND ADJUDICATING
CORRUPTION CASES: EXPERIENCES IN MEMBER
STATES (INCLUDING PROBLEMS OF MUTUAL LEGAL
ASSISTANCE)
09:00
Welcome and introduction
Chair: Lothar Kuhl
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III.
Wolfgang Heusel
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
14:00
Chair: Wolfgang Heusel
09:15
EU policy against corruption and fraud in the
context of the protection of EU funds: role
and powers of OLAF
15:15
Giovanni Kessler
10:00
Discussion
10:30
Break
II.
EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES:
MAJOR CHALLENGES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
CORRUPTION
2011-2014: the Commission’s efforts to forge
a comprehensive anti-corruption policy at EU
level
Discussion
16:30
Break
The Council of Europe’s Group of States
against Corruption (GRECO): recent work and
cooperation with the European Union
The United Nations Convention against
corruption and other recent international
initiatives
Pedro Pereira
12:30
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
09:00
Preventing corruption in the private sector: a
banker’s perspective
Liviu Chirita
09:30
Case and investigation strategies:
establishing a proactive and effective
approach
Pedro Pereira
10:00
Corruption and business activities: a view
from the European Investment Bank
Marco Loretti
IV.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS AGAINST CORRUPTION:
HOW TO IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION IN MEMBER
STATES
Chair: Reinhard Priebe
17:00
Presentation and main results of the 2013
Commission Study: providing tools which
might feed into the general anti-corruption
review mechanism
10:30
Discussion
11:00
Break
VI.
17:30
Improving cooperation between the national
competent authorities and the European
Union: sharing of information as key feature
Paweł Rutkowski
18:00
Discussion and end of the first day
20:00
Dinner
SPECIFIC CHALLENGES IN INVESTIGATING
CORRUPTION
Chair: Lothar Kuhl
11:30
Specific aspects of corruption against and
committed by elected persons: a comparative
analysis
• David Dickson
• Alexandra Maruna
12:30
Organised crime and corruption in the Italian
experience: investigative approaches of the
Italian DNA
Rudy Hoskens
Wolfgang Rau
12:00
NEW INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES IN PREVENTING
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE CORRUPTION CARRIED OUT IN
THE COURSE OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Chair: Anca Jurma
National experiences in dealing with
corruption cases: the perspective of judges
16:00
Reinhard Priebe
11:30
V.
Michael Hopmeier
Chair: Laviero Buono
11:00
Working with new investigation tools in
prosecuting corruption cases: a view from the
coalface
• Anca Jurma
• Alexandra Maruna
Friday, 28 February 2014
Filippo Spiezia
13:00
Summing-up and final considerations
13:15
End of conference and lunch
Lothar Kuhl

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