Welcoming of participants
Venue: Reception of the József Antall building (JAN)

Opening Session

• Rainer Wieland, MEP, Vice President of European Parliament
• Dirk Fokke Toornstra, EP, Director of the Office for Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy
• Gherardo Casini, UNDESA, Director of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliaments

EU Speakers recommendation on Open Document standards

• Antonio Esposito, Member of the Board of IPEX and EU Affairs Department Officer, Chamber of Deputies of Italy

Session 1 - Marking up documents in parliaments around the world: similarities and differences

Chair: Dick Toornstra

• Fabio Vitali, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna

Session 2 - Usage of XML for production processes versus diffusion purposes: a different approach for different objectives

Chair: Dick Toornstra

• Monica Palmirani, Member of the LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee, OASIS and Associate Professor, CIRSFID, Faculty of Law, University of Bologna
• Radboud Winkels, Professor, University of Amsterdam/Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law

Lunch offered by OPPD, European Parliament
Venue: Salon of the Members' restaurant - ASP Floor 0

Session 3 - Status of developments to support the legislative drafting process based on XML

Chair: Steen Eilertsen

• Olivier Leboeuf, Programme manager, European Parliament
• Géraud Berton, Project Manager, European Commission

Session 4 - XML editors and systems to support the legislative drafting process - part 1

Chair: Steen Eilertsen

• Ashok Hariharan, Programme Officer, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Niels Vesterholt, System Consultant, Parliament of Denmark
• Gerry Matthews, ICT Analyst, Office of the Attorney General in Dublin, Ireland

Session 4 - XML editors and systems to support the legislative drafting process - part 2

Chair: Flavio Zeni

• Claudio Fabiani, IT Project Manager, Directorate General for Innovation and Technological Support, European Parliament
• Felicity Hands, IT Project Manager, Directorate General for Translation, European Parliament

Session 5 - Benefits coming from the adoption of XML editors - end users feedback - part 2

Chair: Raquel de Vicente

• Alberto Toso, Assistant of MEP, European Parliament
• Zoltan Petho, Administrator at Parliamentary Committee, European Parliament
• Ellen Robson, Head of Unit, Directorate for Legislative Acts, European Parliament

Session 6 - Open source: the advantage of sharing efforts and results Chair: Gherardo Casini Aldo Laudi, Programme manager at EC, JoinUp initiative

• Aldo Laudi, Programme manager at EC, JoinUp initiative

Session 7 - Open source initiatives

Chair: Gherardo Casini

• Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Advisor, Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

Closing Session

• Giancarlo Vilella, Director General of the Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support will close the event