Programme

Moderator: Regine Roncucci, Secretariat of the European Parliament Intergroup on “Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development"

14:30 – 14:35: Welcome

Pietro Francesco de Lotto, President, Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

14:35 - 14:50: Opening

Oliver Röpke, President, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Pernille Weiss, MEP, Member of the ITRE and ENVI Committees
Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, United Nations (remote)

14:50- 15:00: Keynote speech

Eric Divet, Director in charge of water resources, Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR).

15:00 - 16:00: Panel discussion

"How to implement sustainable water management as a pillar of the new European water strategy? The EU Blue Deal initiative at river level"

With:

Claudia Olazabal, Head of Unit of Sustainable Freshwater Management, DG ENV, European Commission
André Viola, Member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Member of the Departmental Council of Aude (France) and President of Réseau Solidarité Eau 11
Chris Baker, Director, Wetlands International Europe
Durk Krol, Executive Director, Water Europe
Florian Marin, EESC Member, Rapporteur of the umbrella opinion "A call for an EU Blue Deal"

16.00 - 16.20: Exchange of views

with the Members and Delegates of the EESC's Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), MEPs and stakeholders

16:20 - 16:30: Comment by

Erik Orsenna, Chairman of Initiative for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR)

16:30 - 16:45: Closing remarks

Tiemo Wölken, MEP, Co-chair of "Water Management" Working Group, European Parliament Intergroup on "Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development" (remote)
Pietro Francesco de Lotto, President, Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Interpretation provided from BG/ES/CS/DE/EL/EN/FR/HR/IT/PL/SK into BG/ES/DE/EL/EN/FR/IT/PL/SK

(in presence only)