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International Conference

A Common European Law on Investment Screening

Foreign Investment in Times of Change

07 March 2019 — 08 March 2019
Gothenburg University | Sweden

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2 Days | 2 Keynotes | 28 Talks

Daimler, the harbour terminal in Zeebrugge, or Saxo Bank are only three recent examples of controversially discussed company takeovers in Europe. The “elephant in the room” is China and its “Belt and Road Initiative” and other state-backed investment strategies. The political will in Europe is growing to more actively control investments flowing into the EU. The current regulatory initiatives raise several fundamental, constitutional and regulatory issues. Surprisingly, they have not been addressed in any depth so far.

This international research conference shall take stock of the current rather fragmented regulatory approaches and produce the very first, interdisciplinary grounded, comprehensive appraisal of a future “Common European Law on Investment Screening” (CELIS). Due to the conference’s comprehensive approach, it is expected to influence the broader debate on the EU’s upcoming regulation of this matter.

The research conference is addressed to participants from academia as well as to representatives from government, business, and civil society.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Gothenburg!

Steffen Hindelang (SDU) and Andreas Moberg (GU)

Speakers

Steffen Hindelang

University of Southern Denmark
Professor (wsr)

Andreas Moberg

Gothenburg University
Associate Professor

Age Bakker

State Councillor in Extraordinary Service
The Hague
Dutch State Council

Stephan Wernicke

Association of German
Chambers of Commerce
Head of Legal, Berlin

Philipp Stompfe

Attorney
Alexander & Partner
Berlin

Sylvia Baule

Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission
Brussels

Jörg Philipp Terhechte

Professor and Pro-Vice- Chancellor
Leuphana University
Lüneberg

Paolo Vargiu

Lecturer University of Leicester Leicester

Szymon Pawlowski

Senior Lecturer
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
Warsaw

Marek Jezewski

Partner
Kochanski Zieba and Partners
Warsaw

2014-12-17 och 2014-12-18. Sveriges handelsmyndighet Kommerskollegium, Stockholm, Sverige. Porträttfoto av peronalen. Foto: Magnus Liljegren / GGFOTO

Jonas Hallberg

Trade Policy Advisor
Kommerskollegium
Stockholm

Jukka Snell

Professor
University of Turku University
Turku

Henning Berger

Partner
White and Case
Berlin

Dominik Eisenhut

Senior Legal Counsel
Airbus Defence
Munich

Henning Jessen

Associate Professor
World Maritime University
Malmö

Bent Ole Gram Mortensen

University of Southern Denmark
Professor
Odense

Portraits der Professoren der Bucerius Law School

Michael Fehling

Professor
Bucerius Law School
Hamburg

Vladimir Talanov

Advocate
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev
Moscow

Greta Lichtenbaum

Partner
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Washington, D.C.

Qingxiu Bu

Professor
McGill University
Montreal

Tomoko Ishikawa

Associate Professor
Nagoya University
Nagoya

Stefan Korte

Professor
Technical University Chemnitz
Chemnitz

Bugge Thorbjørn Daniel

Associate Professor
University of Southern Denmark
Odense

Thomas Papadopoulos

Lecturer
University of Cyprus
Nicosia

Per Cramér

Dean and Professor
University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg

Martin Nettesheim

Professor
University of Tübingen
Tübingen

Barbara Kaech

General Counsel
Nord Stream 2
Zug

Helle Krunke

Professor
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Joanna Warchol

Policy Advisor
European Parliament
Brussels

Mavluda Sattorova

Senior Lecturer
University of Liverpool
Liverpool

Carolina Dackö

Partner
Mannheimer Swartling
Stockholm

Teoman Hagemeyer

Judge, Ph.D. Student
Social Welfare Court Berlin / Free University Berlin
Berlin

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, 06 March 2019

19:30 - 22:30 | Pre-conference evening

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[icon name="map-marker"] Gothenburg Offices of Mannheimer Swartling AB, Östra Hamngatan 16, 411 09 Gothenburg, Sweden

Get-Together of organisers, speakers, commentators, and chairs, and registered participants

From Gothia Towers Hotel take Tram line 5 towards “Länsmansgorden” from “Korsvägen” (in front of the Hotel) until “Lilla Bommen” (7 mins). As you get off, the Gothenburg Offices of Mannheimer Swartling are just in front of you.

Home - CELIS

Thursday, 07 March 2019

09:00 - 09:45 | Registration and Coffee

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Note: From Gothia Towers Hotel take Tram line 6 (towards “Varmfrontsgatan”, line 8 (“Frölunda torg”), or line 13 (towards “Sahlgrenska huvudentr”) from “Korsvägen” (in front of the Hotel) until “Medicinaregatan” (15 mins). As you get off, follow Medicinaregatan to No. 20.

Registration and Coffee

09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome Address and Opening Remarks by the Organisers

10:00 - 10:30 | Keynote - Economic Foundations of Capital Controls and Unilateral Liberalisation of Capital Movements by the EU Treaties

10:30 - 11:00 | Inaugural Talk - Investment Screening – The Return of Protectionism?

11:00 - 12:00 | General Discussion

12:00 - 13:00 | Light Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 | First Panel: “The European Origins” – the EU Member States Rules on Screening Foreign Investment

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Home - CELIS Chair: Sylvia Baule, European Commission, Deputy Head of Unit, Brussels

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

Country Report on Western EU Countries (esp. Germany, France, The Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg) (20’)

Home - CELIS Philipp Stompfe, Attorney, Alexander & Partner, Berlin.

Country Report on Southern EU Countries (esp. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece) (20’)

Home - CELIS Paolo Vargiu, Lecturer, University of Leicester, Leicester

Country Report on Central and Eastern European and Baltic EU Countries (esp. Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Baltic States) (20’)

Home - CELIS Szymon Pawłowski, Senior Lecturer, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw

Home - CELIS Marek Jeżewski, Partner, Kochański Zięba and Partners, Warsaw

Country Report on Northern EU Countries (20’)

Home - CELIS Jonas Hallberg, Kommerskollegium, Trade Policy Advisor, Stockholm

General discussion (30’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 | Second Panel: “The Hidden European Investment Screening Mechanism Already in Place” – Existing EU Secondary Legislation on (Discriminatory) Treatment of Third Country Investments – A Plurality of Regulatory Approaches

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Chair: Jukka Snell, University of Turku, Professor, Turku

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

Banking and Insurance Sector (15’)

Home - CELIS Henning Berger, White and Case, Partner, Berlin

Defence, Military, Dual-use Sector (15’)

Home - CELIS Dominik Eisenhut, Airbus Defence, Senior Legal Counsel, Munich

Transport Sector (15’)

Home - CELIS Henning Jessen, World Maritime University, Associate Professor, Malmö

Energy and Water Sector (15’)

Home - CELIS Bent Ole Gram Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark, Professor, Odense

Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure Sector (15’)

Home - CELIS Michael Fehling, Bucerius Law School, Professor, Hamburg

General Discussion (35’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

17:30 - 17:50 | Short Coffee Break

17:50 - 19:00 | Third Panel: Beyond Europe – The Screening Schemes of Major EU Trade Partners

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Home - CELIS Chair: Vladimir Talanov, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Advocate, Moscow

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

Country Report for Northern America (esp. US and Canada) (20’)

Home - CELIS Greta Lichtenbaum, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Partner, Washington, D.C.

Country Report for Asia (esp. China and Japan) and Australia (20’)

Home - CELIS Qingxiu Bu, McGill University, Professor, Montreal

General Discussions (20’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

19:00 | End of 1. Conference Day - Bus transfer to Gothia Towers

20:30 - open end | Speakers’ Dinner (by invitation)

Friday, 08 March 2019

09:00 - 09:30 | Arrival of Participants

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Arrival of participants; coffee is served.

09:30 - 11:00 | Fourth Panel: EU Constitutional Preconditions and Limits

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Home - CELIS Chair: Tomoko Ishikawa, University of Nagoya, Assoc. Professor, Nagoya

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

In search for an EU Competence to Establish an Investment Screening Mechanism and Restricting Effects Flowing from Fundamental Freedoms, Fundamental Rights, and other EU Primary Law

Home - CELIS Stefan Korte, Technical University Chemnitz, Professor, Chemnitz (35’)

Home - CELIS Comment: Bugge Thorbjørn Daniel, University of Southern Denmark, Associate Professor, Odense (15’)

General Discussions (30’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 | Fifth Panel: Possible Functions of a Common European Law on Investment Screening

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Home - CELIS Chair: Per Cramér, University of Gothenburg, Dean and Professor, Gothenburg

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

Screening for What Threat – Preserving “Public Order and Security”, Securing Reciprocity in International Trade, Supporting Certain Social, Environmental, or Industrial Policies?

Home - CELIS Martin Nettesheim, University of Tübingen, Professor, Tübingen (30’)

Home - CELIS Comment: Barbara Kaech, Nord Stream 2, General Counsel, Zug (10’)

Home - CELIS Comment: Helle Krunke, University of Copenhagen, Professor, Copenhagen (10’)

General Discussion (30’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:30 | Sixth Panel: A Possible Design of an EU Investment Screening Mechanism

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Home - CELIS Chair: Joanna Warchol, European Parliament; Policy Advisor; Brussels

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

What is a Third Country Investment? (15’)

Home - CELIS Mavluda Sattorova, University of Liverpool, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool

An EU Investment Screening Mechanism and Access to Legal Redress (15’)

Home - CELIS Teoman Hagemeyer, Free University Berlin, Ph.D. Student and Social Welfare Court Berlin, Judge, Berlin

Policy Coherence (1) – What Role for EU Competition Law? (15’)

Home - CELIS Jörg Philipp Terhechte, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lüneburg

Policy Coherence (2) – What Role for EU Company Law? (15’)

Home - CELIS Thomas Papadopoulos, Lecturer, University of Cyprus, Nicosia

How can EU business concerns be addressed in an EU screening mechanism? (15’)

Home - CELIS Carolina Dackö, Mannheimer Swartling, Partner, Stockholm

General Discussion (35’)

Concluding Remarks by the Chair (5’)

16:30 - 17:00 | Farewell by Organisers

17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee

Download Programme

Online Symposium on Verfassungsblog.de Prior the Conference

Registration

About CELIS

Speakers

Steffen Hindelang

Andreas Moberg

Age Bakker

Stephan Wernicke

Philipp Stompfe

Sylvia Baule

Jörg Philipp Terhechte

Paolo Vargiu

Szymon Pawlowski

Marek Jezewski

Jonas Hallberg

Jukka Snell

Henning Berger

Dominik Eisenhut

Henning Jessen

Bent Ole Gram Mortensen

Michael Fehling

Vladimir Talanov

Greta Lichtenbaum

Qingxiu Bu

Tomoko Ishikawa

Stefan Korte

Bugge Thorbjørn Daniel

Thomas Papadopoulos

Per Cramér

Martin Nettesheim

Barbara Kaech

Helle Krunke

Joanna Warchol

Mavluda Sattorova

Carolina Dackö

Teoman Hagemeyer

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, 06 March 2019

19:30 - 22:30 | Pre-conference evening

Thursday, 07 March 2019

09:00 - 09:45 | Registration and Coffee

09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome Address and Opening Remarks by the Organisers

10:00 - 10:30 | Keynote - Economic Foundations of Capital Controls and Unilateral Liberalisation of Capital Movements by the EU Treaties

10:30 - 11:00 | Inaugural Talk - Investment Screening – The Return of Protectionism?

11:00 - 12:00 | General Discussion

12:00 - 13:00 | Light Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 | First Panel: “The European Origins” – the EU Member States Rules on Screening Foreign Investment

15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 | Second Panel: “The Hidden European Investment Screening Mechanism Already in Place” – Existing EU Secondary Legislation on (Discriminatory) Treatment of Third Country Investments – A Plurality of Regulatory Approaches

17:30 - 17:50 | Short Coffee Break

17:50 - 19:00 | Third Panel: Beyond Europe – The Screening Schemes of Major EU Trade Partners

19:00 | End of 1. Conference Day - Bus transfer to Gothia Towers

20:30 - open end | Speakers’ Dinner (by invitation)

Friday, 08 March 2019

09:00 - 09:30 | Arrival of Participants

09:30 - 11:00 | Fourth Panel: EU Constitutional Preconditions and Limits

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 | Fifth Panel: Possible Functions of a Common European Law on Investment Screening

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:30 | Sixth Panel: A Possible Design of an EU Investment Screening Mechanism

16:30 - 17:00 | Farewell by Organisers

17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee

Download Programme

Online Symposium on Verfassungsblog.de Prior the Conference

Registration

Partners

CELIS is generously financed by Riksbanken Jubileumsfond

Media Partner - Springer Heidelberg

Co-Sponsor - Society of Int'l Economic Law

Co-Sponsor - ESIL Int'l Economic Law Interest Group

Media Partner - Verfassungsblog.de

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