Seminar Invitation - "Promoting governmente-procurement:Initiatives in Europe and Japan "

Dear DCCJ Members,

Please find below an invitation to a seminar entitled 'Promoting
Government e-procurement: Initiatives in Europe and Japan' with experts from the
European Commission scheduled on Friday 5 February, organised by
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. For details, please refer
to the attached invitation and the message below or contact the
organisers
(seminar@eu-japan.gr.jp) directly 

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Invitation to EU-Japan Policy Seminar
Promoting Government e-Procurement:Initiatives in Europe and Japan

Date/Time Friday, 5 February 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
(Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
MAP
(http://www.eu-japan.gr.jp/english/access/index.cfm)
Language English / Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)
Participation Free
Registration: Please send this form
(http://www.eu-japan.gr.jp/data/current/dataobj-439-datafile.pdf) by fax
(03-3221-6226) or email your name, affiliation, telephone and E-mail
address to seminar@eu-japan.gr.jp.
Inquiry: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (Ms. Higuchi) Tel: 03-3221-6161 

Overview:
 
Public procurement is an important sector of the EU economy, accounting
nearly 16% of its GDP. The EU has made efforts to improve efficiency in
public procurement markets, to remove costs for both administration and
businesses and to make procurement opportunities more transparent for
industry. In 2004 a legislative package was adopted to simply and
modernise the EU public procurement Directives, for example, by
facilitating "gelectronic procurement". The Commission has issued an
Action Plan in order to help Member States implement the Directives
correctly, so as to release the full potential of electronic public
procurement. Similarly in Japan, many public entities, both at national
and local levels, have introduced e-procurement systems as part of their
efforts to improve the public procurement systems.

This seminar aims to discuss initiatives to promote "ge-procurement" in
Europe and Japan by inviting experts from the European Commission to
present how the EU's e-procurement system works. The seminar will also
be joined by representatives of a European and Japanese local entities
to introduce their initiatives to use e-procurement. 

Programme:

14:00 Opening remark, Mr Julien Guerrier, General Manager, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
14:05 "EU's e-Procurement System: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)"
- Mr Erik Nooteboom, Head of Unit for Formulation and Enforcement of Public Procurement Law I:
International Dimension, Directorate-General for Internal Market,
European Commission  - Mr Antonio Reis, Head of Sector, Editorial
development, Production and Support Unit, Publications Office, European
Commission
15:00 "Use of e-Procurement in Japanese Government Procurement:
English Database by JETRO (tbc)"
- Speaker from Japan External Trade Organization (tbc)
15:20 Experience & Perspectives from Local Entities in Europe and Japan
"Hyogo Prefecture's e-Procurement System in Construction Sector"
- Mr Akira Hiroshima, Duputy Director, Contract management Division, Policy Planning and Coordination Breau, Public Works and Development Department, Hyogo Prefencural Government "French Experience in e-Procurement for a More Efficient Public Procurement System at Local and Central Level:Experience in PEPPOL EU project"
- Mr Jean-Phillippe Nadal, Senior Public Procurement
Advisor, ADETEF (ADETEF: Association pour le Developpement des Echanges
en Technologies Economiques et Financieres)
"Italian Experience in e-Procurement (tbc)"
- Mr Giuseppe Brienza, President of the Public
Procurement Network (PPN) / Member of the Board of the Italian Authority
for Supervision of Public Contacts (Italy)
17:00 Closing remark, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation