Lost in Transnations: EU Financial Interests and their Protection

Kick-Off Meeting of the Better Knowledge for the Next Generations - BETKONEXT Project

The BETKONEXT Project (Grant Agreement (GA) no: 101140537) is funded by the Union Anti-Fraud Programme (EUAF-2023-TRAI)

9:00 am Welcome and Registration

9:30 am Welcome Speeches (Italian)
Antonio Punzi Head of the Law Department, Luiss University
Raffaele Fitto* or delegate Minister for European Affairs, Southern Italy, Cohesion Policy, and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Aldo Sandulli Principal Investigator and Professor of Administrative Law, Luiss University

10:00 am Coffee Break

Morning Session (English)

10:30 am Introduction to the Project
Aldo Sandulli  Principal Investigator and Professor of Administrative Law, Luiss University

10:45 am Keynote Speech - The Method of Government for the Recovery and Resilience Facility: A Third Way between Community and Intergovernmental Methods?
Nicola Lupo Professor of Public Law, Luiss University

11:15 am Roundtable - What are the ain challenges for the protection of the EU's financial interests today?  The position of the institutions involved
Moderator
Maurizio Bellacosa Professor of Criminal Law, Luiss University

Speakers
Stefano Screpanti General C. A., Commander of the Guardia di Finanza Unit for the Repression of Fraud against the European Union - Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department for European Affairs 
Francesco Albore Head of Unit OLAF.A.5 - Shared Management and Recovery and Resilience Facility III - Operations and Investigations, European Commission - European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
Pietro Russo Member of the European Court of Auditors
Federico Paoli Head of Sector, DG REFORM - evaluation & programme coordination, European Commission
Mauro Orefice Auditor and Head of the International Affairs Office, Italian Court of Auditors

Q&A

12:30 pm Lunch

Afternoon Session (English)

2:00 pm Workshop - The prismatic definition of the EU's financial interests and the importance of protecting them: RULES, PRACTICE AND INSTITUTIONS with the BETKONEXT team and the participation of the national AFCOS
Moderator
Alessandro Nato Senior Assistant Professor of European Law, Teramo University

Welcome and presentation of the national AFCOS  
Cruciano Cruciani
Italian AFCOS
Tomasz Soczewka and Piotr Szkudlarek Polish AFCOS

Research Perspectives on Administrative, Criminal and EU Law Issues

2:30 pm Panel I – Administrative Controls
Maurizia De Bellis Professor of Administrative Law, Tor Vergata University
Elisabetta Tatì Junior Assistant Professor of Administrative Law, Luiss University

2:50 pm Panel II – The EPPO
Michele Panzavolta Professor of Criminal Law, Leuven University
Rossella Sabia Junior Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Luiss University

3:10 pm Panel III - PIF Implementation and the Fight against Corruption
Oscar Capdeferro Professor of Administrative Law, Barcelona University
Natalia Daśko Professor of Criminal Law, TORUŃ University

3:30 pm Panel IV - Conditionality Regime
Marta Simoncini Professor of Administrative Law, Luiss University
Cristina Fasone Professor of Comparative Law, Luiss University
Maciej Serowaniec Professor of Constitutional Law, TORUŃ University

4:00 pm Closing Remarks
Andrea Venegoni European Public Prosecutor's Office

4:30 pm Internal Meeting with the BETKONEXT Research Team

Registration
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Scientific committee
Prof. Aldo Sandulli
Prof. Antonio Gullo
Prof. Maurizio Bellacosa
Dr. Elisabetta Tatì
Dr. Rossella Sabia
Dr. Alessandro Nato

With the support of 
Technical Secretariat of the Italian Anti-fraud coordination service (AFCOS)
Colonel Cruciano Cruciani
Lieutenant Vincenzo Branchi
Lieutenant Vincenzo Tarallo
Marshal Fabio Tetta

Belgian Anti-fraud coordination service (AFCOS)
Christian Bourlet 
Michiel Vervloet

Polish Anti-fraud coordination service (AFCOS)
Aleksander Krzemień 
Kwiecińska Dorota
Dominik Zalewski

Spanish Anti-fraud coordination service (AFCOS)
Mercedes Rodríguez Tarrida
Sofía Viñayo Fernández