February 3, 2009
09:00 1st Pillar: Business lobbying: myth or reality?
u Budgets, strategies, organisation and leadership
u EU trade associations, industrial platforms and enterprises
u Working with the "enemy"? - NGO and industry relations
10:45 Coffee & Networking Break

11:00

2nd Pillar: What is new (and generally unknown) in the EU decision making process?
u Policy making versus lobbying: upstream advocacy techniques
u The Drafting Phase: Public consultations, Impact assessment, Inter-service procedures
u The Adoption Phase: Council working groups and COREPER, common position (between the 1st and the 2nd reading), conciliation
u Working with the European Parliament
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 3rd Pillar: The New Comitology and its strategic consequences on lobbying
u Comitology ‘stricto sensu’
u Quasi-legislative measures
u Consequences on lobbying
15:30 Coffee & Networking Break
15:45 4th Pillar: Working with the Press in the EU Context
u Press and Lobbying
u Dos and don'ts for working with the Press
17:15 End of the day