Conferences

TDI Yearly 2022

Practical information

Thursday 17 November 2022, 09:30-17:15
This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

The EU’s Trade Defence Policy is evolving constantly. Following up the most important developments, the 3E Research Centre of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) is organising its annual Trade Defence Instruments (TDI) conference on 17 November 2022. TDI Yearly 2022 will be organised in a hybrid format, building upon the very well-received in-person, online and hybrid editions of the three previous years.

The conference convenes top-level speakers including Marc Van der Woude (the President of the General Court) and Martin Lukas (Director, DG Trade). The sessions will review the most important novelties of year 2022 in the decision-making of the Commission, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and the WTO, while also taking stock on the Commission’s modernisation package and the implications of sustainability on TDI.

Please click here to register ! We offer both online and in-person options.

Programme:

09.00 - 09.30 Welcome Coffee Break

09.30 - 10.00 Keynote speech by Martin Lukas, Director Trade Defence, DG Trade

10.00 - 10.15 Q&A

10.15 - 11.00 EU Court Practice with:

  • Yves Melin, Partner, Reed Smith LLP, Brussels
  • James Killick, Partner, White & Case, Brussels
  • Marc van der Woude, President of GC
  • Moderated by Harri Kalimo, Brussels School of Governance

11.00 - 11.15 Q&A

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.30 Commission TDI Practice 2022 with:

  • Mihail Milev, Head of Sector (Trade Defence Instruments), DG Trade
  • Nicoleta Tuominen, Counsel, Dentons Europe LLP, Brussels
  • Maxime Hommé, Lawyer, O'Connor & Company
  • Moderated by Laurens Elsen, Head of Unit, DG Trade

12.30 - 12.45 Q&A

12.45 - 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 - 14.45 Modernisation Four Years' After with:

  • Wolfgang Müller, former Head of Unit (General Policy), DG Trade
  • Anna Dias, Partner, Gide
  • Nikolay Mizulin, Partner, Mayer Brown Europe-Brussels LLP
  • Moderated by Laurens Elsen, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Trade

14.45 - 15.00 Q&A

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee Break

15.15 - 16.00 WTO practice with:

  • Gustavo Luengo, Member of the Legal Service, European Commission
  • Niall Meagher, Executive Director, Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)
  • Claudia Orozco, Principal,  Trade Law Advice
  • Moderated by Frank Hoffmeister, General Counsel, EEAS

16.00 - 16.15 Q&A16.15 - 17.00 Perspective on Trade defence in the United States by Stephen Vaughn, Partner, King & Spalding and Victor Mroczka, Director of Trade Remedies and Competition, USTR

The conference program is drawn up with the kind help of Laurens Elsen from DG Trade and well-known specialised practitioners of the Brussels bar, Marie-Sophie Dibling, Yves Mélin, Eva Monard, Bernard O’Connor, Olivier Prost, Nicoleta Tuominen, Paulette Vander Schueren and Edwin Vermulst.