First Conference of the Presidents of Supreme Administrative Courts in Europe

“The possibility and scope of the judicial control of administrative decisions”

7-8 October 2002, Strasbourg

PROGRAMME

Monday, 7 October 2002

Morning: General presentation

10.30 Opening of the Conference
Mr Guy DE VEL, Director General of Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe

Chair: Mr Guy BRAIBANT, Honorary Section President of the French Council of State

11.00 General Introduction
Mr Jean-Paul COSTA, Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights
Round Table with all participants

13.00 Lunch Break

Afternoon: the effectiveness requirement, guiding principle of the judicial control of administrative decisions
Chair: Mr Heinz AEMISEGGER, Vice-President of Federal Court, Switzerland

15.00 The organisation of the control of administrative decisions
Speaker: Mr Gerardo CARBALLO MARTINEZ, Adviser, Office of the Spanish Ombudsman, Madrid, Spain
Round Table with all participants

16.00 Break

16.30 The main features of control in the light of the case-law of the European Court on Human Rights

Speaker: Professor Paul LEMMENS, Director of the Human Rights Centre, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Round Table with all participants

Tuesday, 8 October 2002

Morning: The judicial control of administrative decisions, a relative efficiency ?
Chair: Mr Fernando Manuel AZEVEDO MOREIRA, Vice-President, SupremeAdministrative Court, Portugal

09.30 The extent and limits of the judicial control of administrative decisions
Speaker: Professor Theodoros FORTSAKIS, Athens University, Greece
Round Table with all participants

10.45 Break

11.15 The efficiency of the judicial control of administrative decisions
Speaker: Mr Jacek CHLEBNY, President of the Lodz Section, Supreme Administrative Court of Poland
Round Table with all participants

12.30 Lunch Break

Afternoon: Summing up of the work and conclusions

Chair: : Mr Alexey KOJEMIAKOV, Head of the Department of Public Law, Council of Europe
14.30 The evolution of the judicial control of administrative decisions in the light of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

General Rapporteur of the Conference: Professor David HARRIS, Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at Nottingham University (United Kingdom)
Presentation of the draft conclusions of the Conference

16.00 Break

16.15 Adoption of the Conclusions and closure of the Conference