Conference (Webinar) 28-29 October 2022
“European Green Deal and the impact of the climate change on the EU regulatory framework. Searching for coherence”

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 28 October 2022

9.00 Opening and welcome Prof. dr hab. J. Pisuliński, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Prof. dr hab. S. Dudzik, Head of the Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

9.10 Introduction and presentation of the JMM SustEULaw Project (dr hab. A. Sikora, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University)

PANEL I. The concept of coherence in EU law

1. The concept of coherence of the EU legal order – Realizing Utopia? (Prof. A. Łazowski, Westminster University, United Kingdom) 9h20
2. The role of the EU Court of Justice in ensuring coherence of EU law (Prof. M. Szpunar, Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Union) 9h40
3. High level of environmental protection and do not significant harm. Towards new general principles of EU law as tools of coherence? (dr hab. A. Sikora, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University) 10h00
4. Coherence and hierarchy of the EU law sources. EU Green Deal and a soft law (r)evolution (Prof. B. Iwańska, Head of Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University) 10h20

10h40 Discussion and questions

Coffee break

PANEL II. EU Green Deal – (re)shaping the EU regulatory framework through setting targets? Towards an ecological dimension of EU law

PART A. Methodology & Challenges

5. Decision-making for achieving climate neutrality at the EU level – introductory remarks (Prof. M. Peeters, Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Netherlands) 11h00
6. Development of Biodiversity Law in the EU legal order (Prof E. Chiti, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy) 11h20
7. Terminology and Instruments in EU Climate Change Policies (Prof. F. Krepelka, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia) 11h40
8. Sustainability and the Holy See’s recommendations to the EU Member States (Prof. Ch. Mengès-Le Pape, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France) 12h00
9. Climate Change and Access to Information in the EU: Legal System Failing Transparency of Climate-relevant Decision-making? (dr T. Paloniitty, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland) 12h20
10. Plan as a source of law and its role in implementing the principle of environmental integration (dr K. Karpus, Department of Environmental Law and Public Economic Law, University of Toruń) 12h40
11. E-government, digitalization and EU Green Deal. Towards more sustainability (dr hab. I. Kawka, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University) 13h00

13h20 Discussion and questions

Lunch break

PART B. Substantive & horizontal questions

12. Methodology: comparing Food Law with aspirations of the Farm to Fork Strategy climate (dr H. Schebesta, Associate Professor, Law Chair Group Wageningen University, the Netherlands) 14h30
13. The Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy: A Fundamental-Rights Approach to Harmonise the Internal Market (dr M. Inglese, Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, University of Parma, Italy) 14h50
14. F2F in times of food insecurity (dr O. Śniadach, Chair of European and Comparative Law, University of Gdańsk) 15h10

15h30 – 16h00 Discussion and coffee-break

15. Environmental democracy and green transition under the EU Green Deal: searching for coherence in theory and practice (Prof. J. Jendrośka, Opole University, Poland) 16h10
16. Green procurement favorable to environmental protection and combating climate change (dr A. Sołtysińska, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University, Cracow) 16h30
17. In the quest for sustainability – How can National Competition Authorities (NCAs) contribute? (dr K. Dobosz, Chair of Regulatory Politics, Cracow University of Economics) 16h50
18. Does perception of food influence introduction of sustainable food chain? Food as a commodity, food as a common good (A. Kołodziejczyk, Phd Candidate University of Warsaw) 17h10
19. The war on Ukraine and the Perspectives of European Green Deal (Prof. A. Hurzhuii, State University of Trade and Economics, Kyiv) 17h30

17h50 Discussion and questions

18h30 Closing the first day of the conference

SATURDAY 29 October 2022

9.00 Opening of the second conference day (Prof. B. Iwańska, Head of Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University)

PANEL III. Current challenges of a climate change in EU law and policies

PART A. GLOBAL DIMENSION OF THE EU GREEN DEAL

1. Green agenda in Serbia due to the beginning and development of Serbian green criminology and green victimology (prof. M. Kostić, Faculty of Law, University of Nis, Republic of Serbia) 9h10
2. Energy solidarity revisited. Reflections in the context of the EU Green Deal (dr I. Przybojewska, Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University, Cracow) 9h30
3. Assessing the EU Climate and Energy 2030 Framework through the prism of foreign investment protection (dr M. Fermeglia, Hasselt University, Faculty of Law, Belgium) 9h50
4. Coherence in EU chemicals, products and waste legislation: A means to stimulate the transition towards a circular economy? (I. M. de Waal, Phd Candidate, Utrecht University, Netherlands) 10h10
5. Closing the loop between phytoremediation of contaminated sites and production of advanced biofuels in the EU: Evidence from the H2020 Phy2Climate Project (dr M. Fermeglia, Hasselt University, Faculty of Law, Belgium and M. Perisic, PhD candidate, Hasselt University, Faculty of Law, Belgium) 10h30
6. The transition of waste management according to the EU and Ukrainian legislation (Y. Leheza, Professor Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine) 10h50

11h10 Discussion and questions

Coffee break

7. European Union trade agreements – an effective means to promote and achieve sustainable development? (J. Kozłowski, Phd Candidate, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University) 12h00
8. The EU ETS and the European Green Deal – struggle for compromise (M. Bryk, PhD Candidate, University of Silesia) 12h20
9. The external dimension of a just transition – the Carbone Border Adjustment Mechanism case study (J. Bednarek, former member of the Climate Negotiations Department, Polish Prime Minister’s Office) 12h40
10. The principle of proportionality between private and public interest in the use of natural resources in accordance with the EU and Ukrainian legislation (prof Y. Volkova, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman) 13h00
11. EU Foreign policy (In)coherence for Sustainable Development / Post-Soviet Dimension of Business and Human Rights Framework (O. Uvarova, Associate Professor, Visiting Researcher Wageningen University Law Group) 13h20
12. Can the EU fund its climate transition in a credible way? (M. Krzemień, Phd Student, Warsaw University, Chair of EU Law) 13h40
13. The question of why: the bigger picture of the external impact of the EU green transformation (A. Krężel, Phd Candidate, University of Wrocław) 14h00
14. Towards EU Nature Restoration Law: a boost for biodiversity and climate (dr M. Baran, Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University, Cracow) 14h20

PART B. Young Scholars session

15. Climate change and global solidarity: relations between the European Union and Latin America and Caribbbean (K. Kwaśny, Jagiellonian University student) 14h40
16. Net zero emissions and economic growth – a perfect match or an impossible ambition (M. Włoskowicz, F. Nowak, Jagiellonian University students) 15h00

15h20 Concluding remarks

See you next year!!!!!
Your SustEULaw team

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