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    Public hearing on "SOC/763 - Access to water: tackling water poverty and its impact on social policy"

    Hybrid meeting via Interactio, EESC, VMA3 – Thursday, 13 April 2023 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

    09.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Testing connections

    10.00 a.m. - 10.05 a.m. | Introduction

    • Pietro Francesco De Lotto, President of the EESC's Consultative Commission for Industrial Change and President of the study group

    10.05 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Opening remarks

    • Kinga Joó, Rapporteur of the EESC opinion
    • Carlos Manuel Trindade, Rapporteur of the EESC opinion

    10.15 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. | Panel I - General overview by institutional stakeholders

    Moderator: Giulia Barbucci, Study group member

    Keynote speaker: Rui Manuel Vitor Cortes, Professor, University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD)

    • Trudy Higgins, Seconded National Expert in the Marine Environment & Clean Water Services Unit, European Commission
    • Piotr Całbecki, Rapporteur for the Committee of the Regions opinion on Fitness check of the Water Framework Directive
    • Aude Farnault, Economist and Policy Analyst, OECD
    • Christian Minelli, Head of the Secretariat, European Water Regulators (WAREG)

    Questions and answers

    11.15 a.m. - 11.25 a.m. | Break

    11.25 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Panel II - The perspective of social partners, civil society organisations and academia

    Moderator: Giulia Barbucci, Study group member

    Keynote speaker: Gabriella Sodar, Head of Business Development, Blue Planet Foundation

    • Henriette Gleau, Policy Advisor, SGI Europe
    • Jan Willem Goudriaan, General Secretary, European Public Service Union (EPSU)
    • Gábor Molnár, Managing Director, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency
    • Jean-Yves Stenuick, Policy Coordinator, Aqua Publica Europea (APE)

    Questions and answers

    12.45 p.m. - 12.55 p.m. | Conclusions

    • Kinga Joó, Rapporteur of the EESC opinion
    • Carlos Manuel Trindade, Rapporteur of the EESC opinion

    12.55 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Closing remarks

    • Pietro Francesco De Lotto, President of the EESC's Consultative Commission for Industrial Change and president of the study group

    Interpretation requested from English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian into English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian

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