Press Releases

Press programme: Informal Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers

PROGRAMME and PRESS EVENTS (Status: 22.12.2005)

Thursday, 12 January 2006

9.00

Hofburg press centre opens

18.30

RECEPTION FOR THE MEDIA by Federal Ministers Karin Gastinger and Liese Prokop in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Herrengasse 7, 1st district, Vienna)

Registration for this programme item is requested by email to infopoint@bmi.gv.at by 10.1.2006

22.00

Hofburg press centre closes

Friday, 13 January 2006

7.00

Hofburg press centre opens

8.15

FAMILY PHOTO in the Hilton

POOL: Host broadcaster and host photographer*

8.45

Arrival of the Ministers in Josefsplatz (entrance to the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle)

PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY in Josefsplatz (press podium)

9.00

Start of Plenary Session I "Asylum and Migration Management" in the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle (Großer Redoutensaal)

POOL 1: PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY/Tour de Table. Registrations for this pool can be made at the press centre information desk until 8.15 on 13.1.2006

11.10

Tour of the State Hall of the Austrian National Library for the Ministers. Guide: Johanna Rachinger, Director-General of the Austrian National Library

POOL: Host broadcaster and host photographer*

11.10

Signing of the "Agreement on operative and strategic cooperation between the Republic of Croatia and the European Police Office (Europol)"by Ivica Kirin, the Croatian Minister of the Interior, and Max Peter Ratzel, the Director of Europol in the mezzanine of the Kesselhaushof

PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY

11.25

PRESS CONFERENCE of the Presidency in the Kesselhaushof press conference room (ground floor) (Languages: German, English and French)

12.00 – 14.00

Lunch for media representatives in the press restaurant (Augustinertrakt)

13.30

Start of Plenary Session II “The Further Development of European Criminal Law and the Fundamental Rights of Citizens” and “Information for the JHA Council on JHA-related issues in other Council Formations” in the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle (Großer Redoutensaal)

POOL 2: PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY/Tour de Table. Registrations for this pool can be made at the press centre information desk until 12.30 on 13.1.2006

19.30

Gala Dinner for Ministers at the Belvedere Palace

POOL: Host broadcaster and host photographer*

19.30

Transfer by bus for the press visit to a wine bar: departure from Innerer Burghof

20.00

PRESS VISIT to Heurigen Wieninger (wine bar) (Stammersdorfer Straße 79, 21st district, Vienna)

Registration for this programme item is requested by email to infopoint@bmi.gv.at by 10.1.2006

22.00

Hofburg press centre closes

Saturday, 14 January 2006

7.00

Hofburg press centre opens

8.45

Arrival of the Ministers in Josefsplatz (entrance to the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle)

PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY in Josefsplatz (press podium)

9.00

Start of Plenary Session III “The Architecture of Internal Security” in the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle (Großer Redoutensaal)

POOL 3: PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY/Tour de Table. Registrations for this pool can be made at the press centre information desk until 8.15 on 14.1.2006

11.00 Uhr

Start of Plenary Session IV “Implementation of the Strategy for the External Dimension of JHA” in the Conference Centre Hofburg Redoutensäle (Großer Redoutensaal)

POOL 4: PHOTO and FILM OPPORTUNITY/Tour de Table. Registrations for this pool can be made at the press centre information desk until 10.00 on 14.1.2006

Buffet lunch for media representatives in the cafeteria of the Hofburg press centre

12.30

PRESS CONFERENCE of the Presidency

17.00

Hofburg press centre closes

*NB: Only the host broadcaster and the host photographer are admitted to these press events owing to space constraints