08:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00
Welcome on Behalf of EStALI
Chair of the Morning session: Antonios Bouchagiar, Legal Service, European Commission; Academic Director EStALI Conference, Brussels
09:10
Keynote Speech
Judge Professor Ben Smulders
,
Judge, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg (tbc)
09:40
10:00
Keynote Panel: The Apple judgment: the last chapter in the tax rulings saga or to be continued?
Harold Nyssens
,
DG Competition, European Commission, Brussels
Juan Jorge Piernas Lopez
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Senior Lecturer, University of Murcia, Murcia
Andreas von Bonin
,
Freshfields, Brussels
11:15
11:45
Session 1 – National Courts and Arbitrators: Guardians of Unsubsidised Competition or Possible Sources of Aid
Chair of Session 1: Michael Honoré, Honoré, Fallesen & Andersen, Copenhagen
Mercedes Pedraz
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Judge, Spain’s National High Court, Madrid
Aude-Laure Delbac
,
Legal Service, European Commission, Brussels
Wout De Cock
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Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prof. Dr. Antonis Metaxas
,
Metaxas & Associates, Athens
13:15
14:15
Session 2 – State Aid for Large Manufacturing Projects – The Amended Regional Aid Guidelines
Chair of Session 2: Maria Segura, Clayton & Segura, Managing Editor, European State Aid Law Quarterly (EstAL), Brussels
Koen Van de Casteele
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Head of Unit - DG COMP - European Commission, Brussels
Sarah Blazek
,
Noerr, Munich
Carole Maczkovics
,
Covington, Brussels
15:45
16:00
Session 3 – Does the Foreign Subsidies Regulation Lift the Borders of State Aid?
Chair of Session 3: Caroline Buts, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Academic Director EStALI Conference; European State Aid Law Quarterly (EstAL), Brussels
Karl Soukup
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Director, DG Competition, Brussels
Natura Gracia
,
Linklaters, London
Nicole Robins
,
Oxera, Brussels
17:30
18:00
End of the EStALI Conference