Programme

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    9.00  Opening speeches

    • Pantelis Filippidis, President of Thessaloniki's Traders Association
    • Stelios Katranidis, Rector of the University of Macedonia
    • Emmanouil Vlachogiannis, Vice-president of Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry
    • Athanasios Savvakis, President of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece

    Keynote Speaker:

    • Apostolos Makrykostas, Secretary General of Industry, Ministry of Economy and Development of Greece

    10.00  Coffee break

    10.15  Cross Border conversions, mergers and divisions

    Moderator: Norbert Kluge, EESC member

    • Miguel Gardeñes Santiago, Professor of Private International Law, Autonomous University of Barcelona: Some comments on the Commission's proposal of 25 April 2018, on cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions
    • Thomas Papadopoulos, Lecturer of Business Law at University of Cyprus, Editorial Secretary of European Company Law (ECL): Protection of creditors and minority shareholders (appraisal rights) in cross-border mergers
    • Aikaterini Kalliarekou, Lecturer of Economic and Commercial Law, University of Macedonia: Company Divisions
    • Robbert Van het Kaar, Senior Researcher at the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Socio-legal research on Labour and Social Security

    11.00  Questions and answers  

    11.15  The use of digital tools and processes in company law

    Moderator: Krzysztof Balon, EESC member

    • Florian Möslein, Professor of Civil and Economic Law, Marburg University, Germany: Challenges for Company Law in the Digital Age
    • Efi Tziva, Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Legal concerns about the digitalization of the companies in the European Union
    • Marianna Papakyriakou, Vice-president of the Commission of European Affairs, International Union of Notaries
    • Sofia Mouratidou-Zachariadou, Honorary President of I.R.E.N.E. (Institut de Recherches et d’Études Notariales Européen) and Representative of Greece to the International Union of Notaries
    • Stathis Koutsochinas, President of the Thessaloniki Bar Association
    • Evangelia Kekeleki, EESC member

    12.00  Questions and answers

    12.15  Conclusions and recommendations

    • Ariane Rodert, President of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, EESC