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