Thursday, 4 December (8.00 - 9.00)

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
Advisory Committee Breakfast meeting

Wednesday, 3 December (17.00-19.30)

EIF Workshop: "Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Era: the Challenges"
Hotel Renaissance, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels

Welcome from the Chair
Arlene McCarthy, MEP, Member, EIF Board of Governors

Contributions from:
Manuel Avenda�o, EU & International Regulatory Affairs, Telefonica
Ed Averdieck, Sales and Marketing Director, On Demand Distribution
Jonathan Faull, Director General, DG Justice and Home Affairs, European Commission
Mario Mariani, Senior Vice President, Tiscali
Emma Pike, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
Alain Moscowitz, Vice President, Confederation of European Computer Users' Association (CECUA)
Heijo Ruijsenaars, Senior Legal Adviser, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Ted Shapiro, Vice President & General Counsel � Europe, Motion Picture Association (MPA)

Tuesday, 25 November (8.15-9.15)

European Parliament, Brussels
Breakfast Board of Management meeting

Wednesday, 12 November (8.00 - 9.15)

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
Proposed Enforcement Directive for Intellectual Property Rights Breakfast

Chair: Wim van Velzen, MEP
Introduction: Janelly Fourtou, MEP, EP Rapporteur

Tuesday, 7 October (19.45 - 22.15)

Private Salons, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
Information and Network Security Dinner Discussion

Chair: Arlene McCarthy, MEP
Introduction: Reino Paasilinna, MEP
Keynotes:
Antonio Amendola, Italian Communications Authority, Co-chairman Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society
Fabio Colasanti, Director General, DG Information Society, European Commission
Patrick Dalvinck, Regional Director Benelux, Symantec Corporation

Addressing the 60 strong audience that evening were (from left to right): Patrick Dalvinck, Regional Director Benelux for Symantec, Fabio Colasanti, Director General for the Commission's Information Society Directorate, Charlotte Cederschiöld MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Reino Paasilinna MEP, Rapporteur for the ENISA proposal in the European Parliament, Arlene McCarthy MEP, who chaired the evening and Antonio Amendola, from the Italian Communications Authority and Co-chairman of the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society

...and after the dinner was finished, the main parties sat down to continue working on a solution acceptable to all.

Wednesday, September 10 (8.00-9.30)

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
EIF Advisory Committee breakfast meeting

Meeting open to all EIF members who want to participate in the planning of all EIF activities for the coming months.

Monday, July 14 - Friday, July 18

MEP Visit to Washington DC, and site visits to Boeing, Daimler-Chrysler and Microsoft.

Wednesday, July 9, 17.00 - 19.30

European Parliament, Brussels
EIF Advisory Committee

Meeting open to all EIF members who want to participate in the planning of all EIF activities for the coming months.

June 18, Wednesday, 20.00 - 22.15
The White Room, 156 Avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels

EIF Dinner Discussion, Featuring Greek Presidency's experiment on e-voting.

Chair: Erika Mann, MEP, Chair, European Internet Foundation

Guest:
Andreas Papandreou, Treasurer, Papandreou Foundation

June 11, Wednesday (20.00-22.15)

Cercle Gaulois, Brussels

EIF Dinner in Cooperation with BSA

May 20, Tuesday (19.45-22.30)

Members' Restaurant, Private Salon, European Parliament, Brussels
Dinner Discussion: Preparing for the WSIS
Chair:
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, MEP
Guests:
Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Information Society
Adama Samassékou, President of the WSIS Preparatory Process
Ambassador Daniel Stauffacher, Delegate of the Swiss Federal
Council to the WSIS
Jacques Briquemont, Head of Public Affairs, European Broadcasting Union
Carter Eltzroth, Adviser to the CEO, MIH Group and
Rapporteur on the WSIS for the GBDe

April 29, Tuesday (8.00-9.30)

Members Private Salon, European Parliament
Board of Management meeting

April 23, Wednesday (17.00 - 18.30)

European Parliament, Brussels, room A5G315
EIF General Assembly

Members Restaurant European Parliament, Brussels
EIF/EICTA Reception: eEurope - The Way Forward
Chair: Erika Mann, MEP
Speakers include:
Philippe de Buck, Secretary General, UNICE
Reino Paasilinna, MEP
Anthony Parish, EICTA President
Pedro de Sampaio Nunes, Director, Information Society Strategy and eEurope, European Commission

Members Restaurant, Private Salon, European Parliament
Exceptional Board Meeting
June event planning and aob

Room P5B01, European Parliament, Brussels
Internet Challenges: Can the EU and US Balance Privacy, Security,
Liberty and Intellectual Property?
Plenary session with the visiting delegation of the US Congressional Internet Caucus.

9.45-11.00: Security and Privacy
Chair: Erika Mann, MEP
Comments:
Sue Binns, Director, European Commission
George Papapavlou, Head of Unit, InfSo, European Commission
Sachar Paulus, SAP - EU Industry Expert
Patricia Finn, SAS - US Industry Expert
The Honourable Bob Goodlatte, Member of Congress
The Honourable Rick Boucher, Member of Congress
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, MEP
Charlotte Cederschiöld, MEP, European Parliament Vice-President

11.00-11.30: Press Conference

11.30-12.45: Intellectual Property
Chair: James Elles, MEP
Comments:
Thierry Stoll, Deputy Director General, European Commission
The Honourable Bob Goodlatte, Member of Congress
The Honourable Rick Boucher, Member of Congress
Arlene McCarthy, MEP
Malcolm Harbour, MEP

Concert Noble, 82, rue d'Arlon, Brussels
Working Lunch: Possible and proposed EU/US Joint Action
Chairs:
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, MEP and Erika Mann, MEP
Guest Speaker:
Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Information Society

This was also the occasion for changing the EIF Chair, with Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (on the right in the picture below) handing over to Erika Mann in the presence of the Honourable Rick Boucher and Bob Goodlatte from the US Congressional Internet Caucus.

EIF/TPN informal dinner with the US Congressional Internet Caucus
Maison du Cygne, Brussels

EIF Board of Management Meeting, Brussels

EIF Dinner Discussion
Brussels, Centre Bourchette
Information Society and Development
Chair:
Anders Wijkman, MEP
Guests:
N. Jaddoo, Information techology coordinator, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
H. Touré, Director, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)