Opening session

Prime Ministers and President of the European Commission:

Mr Mirek Topolánek, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic [20 KB]

Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission [66 KB]

 Mr Robert Fico, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic

Mr Gediminas Kirkilas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania [15 KB] All available translations.

Mr Luc Chatel, French  Secretary of State for Industry and Government Spokesman

Members of the European Parliament representing different political groups

• Mr Giles Chichester (European People's Party and European Democrats)
• Mrs Edit Herczog (Socialist Group)
• Mrs Rebecca Harms (The Greens - European Free Alliance)
• Mr Vladimír Remek (Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left)

• Mr János Tóth, President of the Energy Section of the European Economic and Social Committee
• Mrs Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer of AREVA
• Mr Philippe De Buck, Secretary-General of BUSINESSEUROPE [33 KB] All available translations.

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         In the presence of

• Mr Waldemar Pawlak, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
• Mr Alexandr Vondra, Czech Deputy Prime Minister for EU affairs
• Mr Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, who welcomed the participants
• Mr Martin Říman, Czech Minister for Industry and Trade
• Mr Vytas Navickas, Lithuanian Minister of Economy
• Mr Ľubomír Jahnátek, Slovak Minister of Economy
• Mr Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner in charge of Energy
• Members of the European Parliament
• Ambassadors
• Mr Dominique Ristori, Deputy Director General, European Commission, who introduced the speakers

 

General session

Chair
Mr Dominique Ristori, Deputy Director General,
European Commission

Theme 1: The opportunities of nuclear energy

Presentation of Working Group activities
by    Mr Jean-Pol Poncelet, Advisor to the CEO of AREVA [2 MB] All available translations.

Statements from panellists and Forum members

• Public authorities
  • Mr Martin Říman, Czech Minister for Industry and Trade
  • Members of the European Parliament
    • Mr Jan Zahradil
    • Mr Miloslav Ransdorf

Nuclear industry and electricity companies

• Mr Helmut Engelbrecht, CEO URENCO
• Mr Alan Svoboda, Executive Director of ČEZ

Industry and energy intensive consumers

• Mr Daniel Cloquet, Director Industrial Affairs BUSINESSEUROPE

 

Technology

• Mr Roland Schenkel, Director General EC Joint Research [18 MB] All available translations.

 

Civil society

• Mr Jan Haverkamp, Greenpeace [309 KB] All available translations.
• Mr Marc Beyens, President of the International Nuclear Law Association [62 KB] All available translations.

Other Forum Members

• Mrs Marie-Pierre Fauconnier, Director General for Energy, Belgium

Key note Dinner speech: Mr William Coley, CEO of British Energy [35 KB] All available translations.

Closing address: Mr Martin Roman, CEO of ČEZ

 

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Theme 2: The risks of nuclear energy

Presentation of Working Group activities
by Mr Walter Hohlefelder, Advisor to the CEO of EON [2 MB] All available translations.

Statements from panellists and Forum members

• Public authorities
  • Mr Tomáš Hüner, Czech Deputy Minister for energy
  • Members of the European Parliament
    • Mrs Nicole Fontaine
    • Mr Miroslav Ouzký
  • Mr Andrej Stritar, Chairman European High Level Group on nuclear safety and waste management

• Nuclear industry and electricity companies

Mr Bruno Lescoeur, Member of the executive board, EDF

Dr Gerd Jäger, Member of the Board, RWE

• Industry and energy intensive consumers

           o Mr Thomas Mock, Head of the German Association of energy intensive industry consumers

• Technology
  • Mr Jean-Pierre Le Roux, Vice Chairman CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) [527 KB] All available translations.

    

• Civil society
  • Mrs Patricia Lorenz, Friends of the Earth
  • Mrs Ulla Birgitta Sirkeinen, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee
• Other Forum Members
  • Mr Nikolay Spasskiy, Deputy Director General, ROSATOM

    

 

Theme 3: Transparency

Presentation of Working Group activities
by Mr János Tóth, Chairman of the Energy Section of the European Economic and Social Committee [1009 KB] All available translations.

Statements from panellists and Forum members

• Public authorities
  • Mr František Janouch, Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the Czech Government for the preparation of the Forum

    

  Nuclear industry and electricity companies

  • Mr Paolo Ruzzini, CEO Slovenské Elektrárne
  • Mr Keith Parker, CEO of UK Nuclear Industry Association
• Industry and energy intensive consumers
  • Mr Julien Masson, International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC)

    

• Technology
  • Mrs Fanny Bazile, Representative of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform

    

• Civil society
  • Mr Jan Haverkamp, Greenpeace [182 KB] All available translations.
  • Mr Mariano Vila d'Abadal, General Secretary of GMF (Group of European municipalities with nuclear facilities) [404 KB] All available translations.
  • Mayor Roland Palmqvist, President of GMF [41 KB] All available translations.
• Other Forum Members
  • Mr Marc Sapir, Senior Advisor, ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation)
  • Mrs Krasimira Pishtuhina, Counsellor, Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU;

Concluding remarks and the way forward

• Mr Alexandr Vondra, Czech Deputy Prime Minister, who spoke on "Energy as topic of Czech EU Presidency"
• Dominique Ristori, Deputy Director General, European Commission
  Conclusions of the Forum [273 KB] All available translations.