A selection of the colloquia, seminars and other events that will take place in October 2006:
13th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services: The congress will take place on London from 8 to 12 October. Commissioners Jacques Barrot (Transport) and Viviane Reding (Information Society and Media) will attend the opening ceremony. Information: ITS Congress Association, avenue Louise 326, B-1050 Brussels. Tel.: 32 (0)2 6261130, Fax: 6261131, Email: london2006@itscongress.org Internet: http: //http://www.itsworldcongress.com
European Securities Forum: This forum, organised by the British Bankers' Association, and devoted to the securities market in Europe, will take place in London on 12 October. Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy and David Wright, Financial Services Director at the European Commission, will be among the speakers. Information: BBA Conference Team, Mrs Sue Dow, Tel.: 44 (0) 20 72168817, Fax 20 72168811, Email: sue.dow@bba.org.uk
Price and Wage Rigidities in an Open Economy - Rigidités des prix et des salaries dans une économie ouverte: Conference in Brussels on 12 and 13 October, organised by the Banque Nationale de Belgique, which should allow interested parties to understand how prices and wages come about and their influence on the economic cycle, matters of key importance for a central bank. Information and registration: Banque Nationale de Belgique, Bld de Berlaimont 14, Tel.: 32 (0)22213636, Fax: 2213254, Email: registration@nbb.be Internet: http: //http://www.nbb.be
Marketing meets Music: This international forum, to be held in Madrid on 19 and 20 October, under the aegis of the Instituto de Empresa, has been designed as an interactive forum to link companies which use music to support their activities and the various suppliers acting on behalf of the music industry. Information and registration: Instituto de Empresa, Ms Marina Tirado, Castellón de la Plana, 28006 Madrid. Tel.: +34 917821715, Fax: 917454762, Email: Marina.Tirado@ie.edu Internet: http: //http://www.execed.ie.edu/internationalprograms
Fostering seaports and beyond: The focus of this conference, organised by the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp and to be held on 25-27 October in Antwerp, is port development and management, in a context of economic and logistics system changes. Information: ITMMAPS, Keizerstraat 64, B-2000 Antwerp. Tel.: 32 (0) 22755151/52, Fax: 2755150, Email: itmma@ua.ac.be Internet: http: //http://www.ua.ac.be/ITMMAPS2006
The British Chamber of Commerce is holding several breakfasts in Brussels: on 17 October, with Lowri Evans, Deputy Director General at Directorate General Competition at the European Commission and responsible for monitoring state aid (Information and registration: http: //http://www.britcham.be/EventDirect.asp?EventID=510 ): on 19 October, with Martin Power, European Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy's Head of Cabinet (Information and registration: http: //http://www.britcham.be/EventDirect.asp?EventID=536 ); and on 24 October, with Heinz Zourek, Director General at DG Enterprise and Industry (Information and registration: http: //http://www.britcham.be/EventDirect.asp?EventID=514 ) . British Chamber of Commerce, Bld Saint Michel 47, B-1040 Brussels. Tel: +(0)2/5409030, Fax: 5128363
IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) is organising several events in Paris and Brussels during the month of October. Paris: “Les derniers élargissements: succès et difficultés”, on 12 October, with Commissioner László Kovaks (Taxation and the Customs Union); “Africa: the road to opportunity”, on 18 October, with Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank; “L'aide au développement atteint-elle vraiment son but?”, on 19 October, organised in cooperation with The Economist; “La Moldavie aux frontières de l'Europe”, on 25 October, with Marian Lipu, Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova; “La tragédie du Darfour”, on 26 October with Ronny Brauman, Head of Research at the Fondation Médecins sans frontiers; “Vers un espace fiscal européen”, on 20 October. Informatio and registration: IFRI, 27 rue de la Procession, 75740 Paris Cedex 15. Tel.: +33 (0)140616000, Fax: 40616060; Email: baniamer@ifri.org (for the colloquium organised along with The Economist: Fax: +33 (0)140069524, Email: economistdebate@development-institute.com) Brussels: “Vers un espace fiscal européen”, on 20 October. Information and registration: +32 (0)22385110, Email: cdc.euifri@ifri.org. (il)