(AGENPARL) – Wed 26 March 2025 PUBLIC HEARING
Committee on Budgets
Committee on Budgetary Control
“Lessons learnt from the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and ways to make it more effective for the future”
Monday, 7 April 2025, 16.30 – 18.30
Room SPAAK 1A002
PROGRAMME
Introduction
16.30 – 16.35
Welcome remarks by Mr Johan van Overtveldt, Chair of the Committee on Budgets and Mr Niclas Herbst, Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control
Panel 1 – The effectiveness of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in protecting the Union budget against rule of law breaches and ways to strengthen the rule of law via budget conditionality
16.35 – 16.45
16.45 – 16.55
16.55 – 17.25
Ms Delphine Freymann, Deputy Secretary of the Venice Commission
Ms Thu Nguyen, Deputy Director, Jacques Delors Center
Questions and answers
Panel 2 – The impact of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation on the ground from the perspective of civil society and local authorities
17.25 – 17.35
17.35 – 17.45
17.45 – 17.55
17.55 – 18.25 Mr Benedek Jávor, Head of the Representation of Budapest to the EU, Energy Cities Association
Mr András Léderer, Senior Advocacy Officer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Ms Katarína Batková, Executive Director, VIA IURIS
Questions and answers
Conclusion
18.25 – 18.30
Concluding remarks by Mr Jean-Marc Germain and Ms Monika Hohlmeier, co-rapporteurs on the Rule of Law Conditionality mechanism