Monday, 11 September 2017
 

Meetings of the regional and linguistic groups

• Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa – CCJA, Chair: Mr MOGOENG MOGOENG, Chief Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa
• Ibero-American Conference of Constitutional Justice – CIJC, Chair: Mr Luis Ramón FÁBREGA SÁNCHEZ, Judge, Supreme Court of Justice, Panama
• Conference of Constitutional Control Organs of the Countries of New Democracy – CCCOCND, Chair: Mr Gagik HARUTYUNYAN, President, Constitutional Court, Armenia
• Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions – AACC, Chair: Mr Zulkefli AHMAD MAKINUDIN, President, Court of Appeal, Malaysia 
• Southern African Chief Justices Forum – SACJF and Commonwealth Courts, Co-chairs: Ms Irene Chirwa MAMBILIMA, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Zambia; Mr Richard WAGNER, Justice, Supreme Court, Canada            
• Association of Constitutional Courts using the French Language – ACCPUF, Chair: Mr Ulrich MEYER, President, Federal Court, Switzerland     
• Conference of European Constitutional Courts – CECC, Chair: Mr Jaroslav FENYK, Vice-President, Constitutional Court, Czech Republic
• Union of Arab Constitutional Courts and Councils – UACCC, Chair: Mr Sghair M'Bareck SAID, President, Constitutional Council, Mauritanie 
• Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of the Portuguese-Speaking Countries – CJCPLP, Chair: Mr Fernando Jorge RIBEIRO, Judge, Supreme Court of Justice, Guinea-Bissau

Meeting of the Bureau of the World Conference, Chair: Mr MOGOENG MOGOENG, Chief Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa
 

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
 

 Opening ceremony, Chair: Mr Dainius ŽALIMAS, President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania

• Mr Dainius ŽALIMAS, President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania [rev. 21/09/2017]
• H. E. Dalia GRYBAUSKAITĖ, President, Republic of Lithuania
• Mr Linos-Alexandre SICILIANOS, Vice-President, European Court of Human Rights
• Mr Gianni BUQUICCHIO, President, Venice Commission, Council of Europe

Session 1 – The different concepts of the rule of law (link to video recording of sessions 1-4)

• Chair: Mr Adel Omar SHERIF, Vice-President, Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt
• Key-note presentation: Mr Yi-Su KIM, Acting President, Constitutional Court, Korea
• Respondent: Mr Mourad MEDELCI, President, Constitutional Council, Algeria (English, French, Arabic)
• Rapporteur: Mr Rakhmet MUKASHEV, Member, Constitutional Council, Kazakhstan (English, Russian) [rev. 20/09/2017]

 Session 2 – New challenges to the rule of law

• Chair: Mr Farhad ABDULLAYEV, Chairman, Constitutional Court, Azerbaijan
• Key-note presentation: Mr Dainius ŽALIMAS, President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania
• Respondent: Mr Ben VERMEULEN, Judge, Council of State, the Netherlands, Presentation of the Venice Commission’s Rule of Law Checklist [rev. 22/09/2017]
• Rapporteur: Mr Claudio Ramos MONTEIRO, Justice, Constitutional Court, Portugal

2^nd General Assembly (Members only), Chair: Mr Dainius ŽALIMAS, President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania
 

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
 

 Session 3 – The law and the state

• Chair: Mr Fernando Jorge RIBEIRO, Judge, Supreme Court of Justice, Guinea-Bissau
• Key-note presentation: Mr Alexandru TĂNASE, former President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Moldova
• Respondent: Mr Gagik HARUTYUNYAN, President, Constitutional Court, Armenia (English, Russian) [rev. 05/10/2017]
• Rapporteur: Ms Pamela MARTÍNEZ LOAYZA, Vice-President Constitutional Court, Ecuador (English, Spanish) [rev. 15/11/2017]

 Session 4 – The law and the individual

• Chair: Mr Gediminas MESONIS, Justice, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania
• Key-note presentation: Mr Christoph GRABENWARTER, Justice, Constitutional Court, Austria (English, German) [rev. 06/10/2017]
• Respondent: Mr MOGOENG MOGOENG, Chief Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa [rev. 21/09/2017]
• Rapporteur: Ms Maria Farida INDRATI, Justice, Constitutional Court, Indonesia

Presentation of the CODICES database, Mr Schnutz Rudolf DÜRR, Secretary General, World Conference on Constitutional Justice

Session 5 – Independence of Constitutional Courts – stocktaking (Member Courts only; reports available in the Venice Forum)

• Chair: Mr Ulrich MEYER, President, Federal Tribunal, Switzerland
• Key-note presentation: Mr Richard WAGNER, Justice, Supreme Court, Canada
• Respondent: Mr Domingo Hernández EMPARANZA, Minister, Constitutional Court, Chile
• Rapporteur: Mr Christian Baptiste Quentin ROGOMBE, Justice, Constitutional Court, Gabon (French)
   

Closing session, Chair: Mr Gianni BUQUICCHIO, President, Venice Commission, Council of Europe

Reports on the sessions by the rapporteurs: (links same as above)

• Session 1: Mr Rakhmet MUKASHEV, Member, Constitutional Council, Kazakhstan
• Session 2: Mr Claudio Ramos MONTEIRO, Justice, Constitutional Court, Portugal
• Session 3: Ms Pamela MARTÍNEZ LOAYZA, Vice-President, Constitutional Court, Ecuador (Spanish) [rev. 28/09/2017]
• Session 4: Ms Maria Farida INDRATI, Justice, Constitutional Court, Indonesia
• Session 5: Mr Christian Baptiste Quentin ROGOMBE, Justice, Constitutional Court, Gabon (report available in the Venice Forum)

Adoption of the Vilnius Communiqué (English, French)

Closing remarks

• Mr Gianni BUQUICCHIO, President, Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
• Mr Dainius ŽALIMAS, President, Constitutional Court, Republic of Lithuania [rev. 28/09/2017]