20:00

Welcome reception at the City Hall of Seville

8.30

Registration of participants

9.30

Opening of the Conference

• Dr José María Michavila Núñez, Minister of Justice, Spain

• Dr José Luis Piñar Mañas, Director of the Agencia de Protección de Datos, Spain

10.00

Session 1. “Roles of Data Protection Authorities”

• Dr José Luis Piñar Mañas. Director. Agencia de Protección de Datos. Spain

• Mr Michel Gentot. President. Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés. France

• Mr Attila Péterfalvi. Adatvédelmi Biztos. Hungary

• Mr Joe Baret. Commission de la Protection de la Vie Privée. Belgium

11.30

Coffee Break

12:00

Session 2. “Implementation of Directive 95/46/EC”

“Report by the European Commission”

• Presentation of the results by the European Commission

“First considerations from Article 29 Working Party”

• Prof. Dr. Stefano Rodotà. President.

13.30

Lunch

15:00

Session 3. “The current situation of data protection in candidate countries”

“General report regarding candidate countries”.

• Dr Karel Neuwirt. President. Ú řad pro ochranu osobních údajů. Czech Republic

“The situation in Poland”.

• Dr Ewa Kulesza. Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osobowych. Poland

16:30

17:00

Coffee Break

Session 4. “International transfers of personal data”

“Report from the study conducted by the Complaints Handling Workshop"

• Mr. Peter Hustinx. President. College Besherming Persoonsgegevens. Netherlands

“Adequate safeguards by means of unilateral declarations”

• Dr. Waltraut Kotschy. Datenschutzkommission. Austria

“Presentation by a Commissionner of the CNIL”. France

09:30

Session 5. “Data Protection in the Telecommunications sector”

“Telecommunications Directive and the Problems of its transposition”.

• Dr. Joachim Jacob. Bundesbauftragter für den Datenschutz. Germany

• Dr. Hansjürgen Garstka.Berliner Beauftragter für Datenschutz. Berlin

• Presentation by a Commissioner of the CNIL. France

“Reflections for the next International Telecommunications Union Summit: building the confidence on the protection of privacy”

• Mr Richard Thomas. Information Commissioner. United Kingdom

“ Ten relevant decisions in the telecommunications sector issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority”

• Dr. Giovanni Butarelli. Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Italy

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

13:00

Session 6. “Various topics”

“US government initiative: Total-Information-Awareness”

• Mr Francis Aldhouse. Office of the Information Commissioner. United Kingdom

"How to deal with complaints against politicians without compromising our

independence"

• Mr Joe Meade. Data Protection Commissioner. Ireland

"Legally binding codes of conduct”

• Presentation by the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Italy

“Enlargement of the Conference. Policy for admission of new members”.

• Mr. Jean-Philippe Walter. Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner. Swiss

• Mr Peter Alexander Michael. III Pillar Data Protection Secretary

“Candidate venues for the next Spring Conferences”

2004.- The Netherlands. Presentation by Mr Peter Hustinx

2005.- Poland . Presentation by Dr Ewa Kulesza

Closing of the Conference