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Second Meeting and Workshop of the Working Group Asylum and Immigration, Vienna 4-5 June 2009

Thursday, June 4


Conference Room of the Administrative Court of Austria (Verwaltungsgerichtshof), 1014 Vienna, Judenplatz 11, 1st floor

13.45 Take seats in conference room, followed by words of welcome from Heinrich Zens, President of the AEAJ

14.00 –14.15 Rudolf Thienel, Vice-President of the Administrative Court of Austria: Welcome Address by the Host


Session I. chaired by Peter Nedwed (Austria)

14.15 – 15.00

Gerhard Muzak (Austria), University of Vienna:
Fair Trial and Asylum Procedure

Christoph Pinter (Austria), UNHCR:
Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedure in the EU – The Perspective of UNHCR

Discussion

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break


Session II. chaired by Boštjan Zalar (Slovenia)

15.30 – 17.00

Joseph Krulic (France):
Is French Asylum Procedure Fair?
Irakleia Kalogianni (Greece):
Asylum and Fair Trial in Greece
Dora Dudas (Hungary):
The strength and shortcomings of the Hungarian Asylum Procedure
Fedora Lovričević Stojanović (Croatia):
The Main Principles of Fair Trial and Most Relevant Procedural Issues in Asylum Act of Croatia

Discussion/End of Workshop (1st day)

18.00 Meeting in the Lobby of the Hotel Wandl; trip to a typical Viennese „Heurigen“


Friday, June 5

Conference Room of the Administrative Court of Austria (Verwaltungsgerichtshof), 1014 Vienna, Judenplatz 11, 1st floor


Session III. chaired by Peter Nedwed (Austria)

9.00 – 10.15

Karin Winter/Florian Newald (Austria):
Problems of Long-Lasting Asylum Procedures (Art. 8 of the ECHR)
Maria Laura Maddalena/Gianmario Palliggiano (Italy):
Refugee Status and Humanitarian Residence Permit – Criteria for Separation between Civil Judges‘ and Administrative Judges‘ Jurisdiction
Boštjan Zalar (Slovenia): An Overview of Main Immigration and Asylum Law Problematic Issues under Slovenian Jurisprudence

Discussion

10.15 – 10.30 Coffee break


Session IV chaired by Boštjan Zalar (Slovenia)

10.30 – 12.30

Pedro Marchao Marques/Antonio Passos Leite (Portugal):
The Burden of Proof in the Asylum Procedure
Paulette Lenert (Luxembourg):
The Burden of Proof in Refugee and Return-Cases
Juha Rautiainen (Finland):
Secret and Confidential Documents in Asylum and Immigration Procedures
Zita Smirnoviene (Lithuania):
Evidence according to Lithuanian administrative procedure (on the shape of Refugee Law)

Discussion

Time available for an address of Adriano Silvestri (Agency for Fundamental Rights of the European Union, who has expressed interest to participate at our meeting).

12.30 Closing Remarks / End of Workshop/Lunch

Please note that the meeting is supported by an operational grant from the European Commission, GD JFS within the framework of the Human Rights’ Programme. Nevertheless the AEAJ is the only responsible for the meeting.


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING IN VIENNA


1. Dóra Dudás (Hungary)
2. Irakleia Kalogiani (Greece)
3. Joseph Krulic (France)
4. Antonio Passos Leite (Portugal),
5. Paulette Lenert (Luxembourg)
6. Fedora Lovričević-Stojanović (Croatia)
7. Maria Laura Maddalena (Italy)
8. Pedro Marchao Marques (Portugal)
9. Gerhard Muzak (Austria)
10. Peter Nedwed (Austria)
11. Florian Newald (Austria)
12. Gianmario Palligiano (Italy)
13. Christoph Pinter (Austria),
14. Juha Rautiainen (Finland),
15. Adriano Silvestri (Fundamental Rights Agency),
16. Zita Smirnoviene (Lithuania),
17. Karin Winter (Austria),
18. Boštjan Zalar (Slovenia),
19. Heinrich Zens (Austria),
20. Christiana Pollak (Austria),
21. Franz Maislinger (Austria),
22. Helmut Hofbauer (Austria),
23. Georg Lukasser (Austria),
24. Bernhard Wurdinger (Austria),
25. Wolfgang Fasching (Austria),
26. Bettina Maurer-Kober (Austria),
27. Peter Chvosta (Austria),
28. Rita-Maria Kirschbaum (Austria)