CELIS 2019

07 March 2019 – 08 March 2019 Gothenburg University | Sweden

About CELIS

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
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
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

19:30 - 22:30

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.

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

13:00 - 15:00

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

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’)

Philipp Stompfe, Attorney, Alexander & Partner, Berlin.

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

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’)

Szymon Pawłowski, Senior Lecturer, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw

Marek Jeżewski, Partner, Kochański Zięba and Partners, Warsaw

Country Report on Northern EU Countries (20’)

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

15:30 - 17:30

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

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

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

Banking and Insurance Sector (15’)

Henning Berger, White and Case, Partner, Berlin

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

Dominik Eisenhut, Airbus Defence, Senior Legal Counsel, Munich

Transport Sector (15’)

Henning Jessen, World Maritime University, Associate Professor, Malmö

Energy and Water Sector (15’)

Bent Ole Gram Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark, Professor, Odense

Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure Sector (15’)

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

17:50 - 19:00

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

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’)

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

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

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

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

09:30 - 11:00

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

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

Stefan Korte, Technical University Chemnitz, Professor, Chemnitz (35’)

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

11:30 - 13:00

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

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?

Martin Nettesheim, University of Tübingen, Professor, Tübingen (30’)

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

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

14:30 - 16:30

Conference Centre Wallenberg, Room Europe

Chair: Joanna Warchol, European Parliament; Policy Advisor; Brussels

Opening remarks by the Chair (5’)

What is a Third Country Investment? (15’)

Mavluda Sattorova, University of Liverpool, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool

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

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’)

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

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

Thomas Papadopoulos, Lecturer, University of Cyprus, Nicosia

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

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

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CELIS 2019

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

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

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)

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

Registration

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