Preliminary Draft Programme

Preliminary Draft Programme
Venue: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany
Wednesday 9 February 2011
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Opening
9:15 - 10:30 Session 1: Keynote presentations
• Presentation from the point of view of the European Commission
“Experiences and policy of the EU in the field of PPP”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 1 (cont.)
Questions and answers
• Presentation from the German point of view
“PPP projects in Germany”
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 1 (cont.)
Questions and answers
• Presentation of the products of the INTOSAI WG “Privatisation, Economic
Regulation and Public Private Partnerships”
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2: Panel discussion
• Suggested items:
Questions and answers
- Comparison of PPP environment across various EU countries
- Impacts of the economic and financial crisis on the audit of PPP projects
- Reasons for the decrease in PPP projects
- Experiences with the use of ISSAI 5220 and 5240
- Assessment of the ISSAI against the background of the financial and
economic crisis
Questions and answers
17:00 End of first day
19:00 Welcome dinner
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Thursday 10 February 2011
9:00 – 10:00 Session 3: Technical workshops
• Presentation to stimulate in-depth discussion in the workshop “Pros and
cons of various PPP models”
Questions and answers
10:00 – 10:30
• Information on workshop proceedings
“Objectives, key questions, etc.”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break and
☺ Join your workshop ☺
Four technical workshops on special PPP areas, e.g.
Workshop 1 “Road works, Transport”
Workshop 2 “Public works”
Workshop 3 “Defence”
Workshop 4 “IT”
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3 (cont.)
Four parallel workshops
• Presentation and discussion of selected case studies on e.g.
Coffee break
within each
workshop
- PPP risk and success factors
- audit experiences
- audit mandate, audit access
- audit methods
- options for future co-operation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Session 3 (cont.)
Coffee break
within each
workshop
Workshops on case studies to be continued
16:30 End of second day
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Friday, 11 February 2011
09:00 – 10:00 Session 4: Concluding Presentation (if any)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session 5: Conclusions
Questions and answers
• Presentation of workshops’ conclusions
(15 min each)
11:30 - 12:30 Session 5 (cont.)
Agreement on common conclusions
12:30 Closing of the workshop
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
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