The overarching theme of the 2022 Forum is European Administrative Law and the Challenges of Uncertainty. The Forum’s aim is to discuss some of the many and diverse difficulties brought about by scientific or technological uncertainty in the production and enforcement of European administrative law. Administrative decision-making under uncertainty is characterized by the lack or reliable estimates of the value of key variables, and by the lack of confirmed causal theories of the relations among them. This widespread feature of contemporary administration influences European administrative law from various perspectives. The Forum will tackle this from three of them: the tensions and transformations of institutional law (organization and procedure), the substantive law of administrative action (principles and control), and a sectoral approach to two policy areas typically affected by uncertainty (environment and technology).
A selection of the presentations will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the Review of European Administrative Law.
Program
Wednesday, 5th
18:30
Meeting of the REALaw Advisory Board
20:30
Dinner
Thursday, 6th
09:15
Welcome address
Mariolina Eliantonio
Editor-in-Chief of the Review of European Administrative Law (REALaw)
Isaac Martín Delgado
Center for European Studies (UCLM)
09:30
Panel 1. The Procedures used to tackle Scientific Uncertainty: Fit for
Purpose?
Chair/Discussant
Annalisa Volpato. Maastricht University
Facing the Scientific Uncertainty in EU Environmental Policy: Procedures and
Evidence in Ex-ante Impact Assessments
Camille Lanssens
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Supervising Data Protection of EU Agencies: A need for expertise?
Sarah Tas
European University Institute
10:10 Discussion
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Panel 2. Organizational structures challenged by Scientific Uncertainty
Chair/Discussant
Herwig Hofmann
University of Luxembourg
Committees, Conferences, Working Groups, and Formalised Informality in EU
Administrative Decision-making
Danai Petropoulou Ionescu
Maastricht University
Nobody saves himself alone: a challenge for the European Health and Digital
Executive Agency (HaDEA) and the European Authority for Health Emergency
Preparedness and Response (HERA)
Sabrina Tranquilli
University of Salerno
A comparative assessment of decentralised management of scientific uncertainty in
EU pesticides and chemicals regulation
Wilke de Braal
Tilburg University
12:30 Discussion
13:30
Lunch
14:30
Panel 3. The Principles of European Administrative Law under Scientific
Uncertainty: the Need for a Renewed Approach?
Chair/Discussant
Nina Poltorak
General Court of the European Union
Reasoning Transparency under Scientific Uncertainty in EU Chemicals Law
Adrian Rubio
European University Institute
The duty of care as principle in European composite administrative procedures
Tilemachos Sfakianakis
Freie Universität Berlin
15:10
Discussion
16:00 Coffee break
16:30
Panel 4. The Control of Administrative Authorities under Scientific
Uncertainty: what Role of Judicial and Administrative Review?
Chair/Discussant
Mariolina Eliantonio
Maaastricht University
National Pre-Authorisation Schemes to Ensure Public Health -Uncertainty,
National Policy Choices,and the Risk of Bias
Angelica Ericsson
Lund University
The rise of complex decision-making in the European Union: Boards of Appeal as
a mechanism to mitigate challenges of uncertainty
Sofie Oosterhuis
Utrecht University
The interim relief during the pandemic in Italy: how to grant an effective judicial
protection under uncertainty?
Giulio Rivellini
LUISS University
17:30 Discussion
20:00
Dinner
Friday, 7th
09:30
Panel 5. Scientific Uncertainty in Environmental Matters: the Importance of
Procedures
Chair/Discussant
Petra Lancos
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
The European Green Deal between incrementalism and effectiveness: the
institutional architecture and regulatory techniques of a project functionally
oriented towards the ecological transition of the EU
Andrea Giorgi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa
The role of the EIA Procedure in the context of green transition: criticality and
perspectives
Silvia Lazzari
University of Rome La Sapienza
State aid assessment for renewable energy support schemes: uncertain procedures
for tackling uncertainty
Theodoros G. Iliopoulos
Hasselt University
10:30 Discussion
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Panel 6. Scientific Uncertainty and Technological Complexity: out of control?
Chair/Discussant
Isaac Martín Delgado
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Administrative decision-making under technological uncertainty: ADM and the
administrative deployment decision
Hanne Hirvonen
University of Helsinki
Discretionary by design: automation and the limits to executive power
Marco Almada
European University Institute
12:10 Discussion
12:40
Closure
Luis Arroyo Jiménez
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Venue
Sala de Prensa
Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (maps)
Cobertizo de San Pedro Mártir s/n
45002 Toledo
Transportation
Plane to Madrid Barajas Airport
Metro or taxi (30€ flat rate) to Puerta de Atocha Station (map)
AVE train to Toledo Station
Taxi to hotels (aprox. 7€)
Organisaton & Funding
Review of European Administrative Law
Centro de Estudios Europeos Luis Ortega Álvarez
UCLM - Campus de excelencia internacional
Cátedra Jean Monnet
Derecho Administrativo Europeo y Global
Co-founded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union