ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN
ELECTION OFFICIALS
13–17 October 2001
Hosted by:
Association of Central and Eastern European Election Officials (ACEEEO)
State Election Committee of the Republic of Croatia
International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
Saturday, 13 October 2001
16.00 - 20.00 Registration of Participants and Guests (Hotel Neptun)
20.00 - Welcome Party for all Participants and Guests of the Conference (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
Executive Board meeting (after the Welcome Party)
Sunday, 14 October 2001
09.00 – 10.00 Registration of Participants and Guests (Hotel Neptun)
09.00 – 09.30 Press Conference
10.00 – 11.00 Opening Session (Congress Hall)
Chair: Mr. Ivica Crnić, Chairman of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Mr. Stjepan Mesić, President of the Republic of Croatia
Dr. Zoltán Tóth, Secretary General of the ACEEEO
Mr. Richard Soudriette, President of the IFES
11.00 – 12.00 Opening and first viewing of the Exhibition of the Suppliers of Election Equipment and Services and the Election History Exhibition
Opening Speech: Mr. Zsolt Szolnoki, Operation Director of the ACEEEO and Ms Patricia Hutar, Board Chair of IFES
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
13.30 – 15.30 Sightseeing in Brijuni (by train)
15.30 – 16.00 Election Equipment and Services Exhibition
Refreshments served
16.00 – 17.30 Session one: Election Campaign Financing in the 21st Century (Congress Hall)
Chair: Mr. Michailo Ryabets, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Presentations by
Mr. István Zsuffa, Program Director of the ACEEEO
Mr. Michael Pinto-Duchinsky, Board, IFES
Mr. Jan Ikstens, Expert of IFES
*** Moderated Question and Answer Period ***
17.30 – 18.00 Presentations by the Equipment and Services Suppliers (Congress Hall)
Code Incorporated, Canada
Hungarian Exhibitors
19.00 – 20.00 Reception – Hosted by Mr. Stjepan Mesić, President of the Republic of Croatia (Residency of the President)
20.30 – Banquet Dinner – Hosted by Mr. Ivica Crnić, President of the State Election Commission of Republic of Croatia (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
Monday, 15 October 2001
9.00 – 10.30 Session Two: Election Campaign Financing – Regional Trends and Solutions (Congress Hall)
Chair: Mr. Alexander Veshniakov, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Mr. Evgeni Kolyushin, Member of the Central Election Commission, Russia
Mr. Mario Jelusić, Election expert, Croatia
Ms. Emília Rytkó, Deputy Head of the Hungarian Election Office
*** Moderated Question and Answer Period ***
10.30 – 11.00 Election Equipment and Services Exhibition
Refreshments served
11.00 – 13.30 Professional Development Workshops: Regulating Election Campaign Financing
Workshop Group A (Blue Salon)
Theme One: Developing Appropriate Election Campaign Finance Regulations
Chair: Mr. Zenonas Vaigauskas, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Smilov, Expert of IFES
Presentation by the ACEEEO member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey)
Workshop Group B (Congress Hall)
Theme Two: Practical Questions of the Election Campaign Financing
Chair: Mr. Arnis Cimdars, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Moderator: Mr. Marcin Walecki, Expert of IFES
Presentation by the ACEEEO member countries (Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine)
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
15.00 – 16.30 Session Three: Workshop Results (Congress Hall)
Chair: Dr. Gábor Máthé, President of the Hungarian Central Election Committee
Presentation by
Ms. Maja Tjernström, Normative Division, International IDEA
Dr. Daniel Smilov, Expert of IFES
Mr. Marcin Walecki, Expert of IFES
16.30 – 17.45 Session four: Technical problems of the US Presidential Election (Congress Hall)
Chair: Richard W. Soudriette, President of IFES
Presentation by
Mr. Alexander Veshniakov, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Dr. István Zsuffa, Program Director of the ACEEEO
Mr. Paul DeGregorio, Director, University of Missouri-St. Louis
17.45 – 19.15 Election Equipment and Services Exhibition
Refreshments served
19.15 – 21.00 Concert of the Zagreb Solists (Congress Hall)
21.00 - Dinner (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
Tuesday, 16 October 2001
9.00 – 10.30 Session Five: Election Observation in Belarus (Congress Hall)
Chair: Mr. Kazimierz W. Czaplicki, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO
Speakers:
Mr. Alexander Veshniakov, Member of the Executive Board of the ACEEEO,
Mr. Hrair Balian, Head of the Election Section of OSCE ODIHR,
Mr. István Kőszegi, Program Manager of the ACEEEO
*** Moderated Question and Answer Period ***
10.30 – 12.30 Sightseeing around Brijuni (by boat)
12.30 – 13.30 Final Viewing of the Election Equipment and Services Exhibition
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
13.30 – 14.30 Executive Board Meeting (Blue Salon)
15.00 – 19.00 ACEEEO General Assembly Meeting (Congress Hall)
Agenda
1. Cooperation between ODIHR and the ACEEEO
2. Cooperation between International IDEA and the ACEEEO
Speaker: Mr. Bengt Säve-Söderbergh, International IDEA
3. Report of the Secretary General of the ACEEEO
4. Discussion of the Plan of the Strategy of the ACEEEO for year 2002-2004
5. The topic and the scene of the Annual Conference of the ACEEEO in year 2002
6. Recommendation for election of a new honorary member of the ACEEEO, Mr. Marijan Ramušćak, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia
19.30 – Closing Ceremony
Mr. Zoltán Tóth, Secretary General, ACEEEO
Ms. Patricia Hutar, Board Chair, IFES
Mr. Ivica Crnić, Cairman, SEC, Croatia
Reception – Hosted by ACEEEO (Restaurant, Hotel Neptun)
Wednesday, 17 October 2001
Departure