Improving Measures Related to Detention Conditions at EU Level

IMPROVING MEASURES RELATED TO DETENTION CONDITIONS AT EU LEVEL BEST PRACTICE, LEGISLATION AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S GREEN PAPER

	Strasbourg, 13-14 February 2014 Objective This final seminar in a series co-funded by the European Commission will focus on the EU’s Green Paper on detention and the ongoing debate and developments surrounding it. Key topics The EU Green Paper on the application of EU criminal justice legislation in the field of detention The European Parliament's proposal to harmonise legislation on detention throughout Europe Effective national supervision of detention conditions Good practices in prison management Conditions of participation Registration fee: 165 EUR  Travel costs up to €300 (including taxi costs) and accommodation for two nights (12-13 February) up to €90 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes and invoices after the seminar. Further information and online registration
	Organiser: ERA (Ramin Farinpour) Languages: English, German Event no.: 314DT12   Speakers: Lena Axelsson, Chairperson, European Prison Education Association; Swedish Prison and Probation Administration, Norrköping Jesca Beneder, Legal Officer, Procedural Criminal Law Unit, Directorate-General for Justice, European Commission, Brussels Dr Peter Bennett, Director, International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS), London Carmen Comas-Mata Mira, Director, Spanish Ombudsman, Madrid Ramin Farinpour, Course Director, European Criminal Law, ERA, Trier Kirsten Hawlitschek, Executive Director, EuroPris, The Hague Justyna Róża Lewandowska, Director, Human Rights Defender, Warsaw Michaël Meysman, Doctoral Researcher, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University Dr Helmut Roos, Head of Section, Member of the Committee of Federal States, National Agency for the Prevention of Torture, Wiesbaden Alex Tinsley, Law Reform Officer, Fair Trials International (FTI), London Wouter van Ballegooij, Criminal Justice Advisor, Greens/EFA Fraction, European Parliament, Brussels