<CENTER>PSB Conference: European Models for Broadcasting</CENTER>

<CENTER>Brussels, European Parliament, Room PHS 04B01, 10 October 2003

WITH THE SUPPORT OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT PAT COX
AND COMMISSIONER GUNTER VERHEUGEN

Report of the Conference

See Background Paper

See Pictures

See Full List of Participants

Download the text of the interventions of:
Phil Harding, BBC World Service
Andrzej Krajewski, Polish Association of Journalists (SDP)

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11.00 Opening : Aidan White, General Secretary International Federation of Journalists

Public Broadcasting in the Global Economy:

- General Agreement on Trade and Services
- World Summit on the Information Society
- Globalisation of media ownership and information flow: Setting and maintaining standards
- Social conditions and creativity.

Chair : Jacques Briquemont, Head of Public Affairs, European Broadcasting Union
Key Note : Phil Harding, Director English Network & News, BBC World Service
Panel :
Roberto Zaccaria, Former President of RAI
Arancha Gonzalez, Spokeswoman for EU Trade Commissioner Lamy
Ahmed Kamel, Brussels Office of Al Jazeera

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 New Broadcasting Values for New Democracies:
- Discussion of public broadcasting crisis in enlargement countries
- Breaking the structural and legal logjam
- Focus on political and professional deficits
- Defining structures to build public confidence
- Tackling the funding crisis.

Chair : Mr Gustl Glattfelder, Chairman of the European Federation of Journalists
Key Note : Mr Boris Bergant, Vice-President of the European Brodacting Union
Panel :
Ms Jagoda Vukusic, former journalist and current Croatian Ambassador to Norway
Mr Andrzej Krajewski, Polish Association of Journalists (SDP)

15.00 Coffee Break

15.15 Continuation of session

16.00 Closing of the Conference : Gustl Glattfelder, EFJ Chairman