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FITNESS CHECK ON THE CAR SECTOR IN EUROPE Vehicles testing and emission scandal 28 September 2016 Silken Berlaymont Hotel, 11-19 Boulevard Charlemagne, 1000 Brussels
Moderator: Peter Teffer
09:30-09:35
Welcome: Örjan Brinkman, President, BEUC
09:35-09:50
Video statement: Elżbieta Bieńkowska, European Commissioner for Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SME’s
09:50-10:10
Retrospection: 1 year car sector in crisis: Peter Mock, International Council on Clean Transportation
10:10-10:30
Setting the scene. The consumer detriment: Ivo Mechels, Executive Director Test-Achats and Euroconsumers
10:30-12:00
Car scandals: lessons learned Lowri Evans, Director General, DG Grow Erik Jonnaert, Secretary General, European Automobile Manufacturers
Association Dirk Bosteels, Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst Kathleen Van Brempt, Member of European Parliament Luisa Crisigiovanni, Secretary General, Altroconsumo
12:00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:30
Uphill battle: Consumers challenges to obtain redress Andrea Venanzetti, Deputy Director General, Italian Consumer and
Competition Authority Professor Ianika Tzankova, Tilburg University Francisco Fonseca Morillo, Deputy Director General, DG Justice and
Consumers Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director-General, BEUC Imelda Wander-Lamé, Director of Group After Sales, Volkswagen Group
14:30-15:00
Coffee break
15:00-15:15
A business-case for change: Sheila Watson, FIA Foundation
15:15-16:45
What needs to change? Greg Archer, Director, Transport & Environment Isabelle Buscke, Head Brussels office, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Gerhard Müller, International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee Daniel Dalton, Member of European Parliament
16:45-17:00
Speech: Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers & Gender Equality
17:00
Closing remarks: Monique Goyens, Director General, BEUC
