VIII Congress of CORA

Brussels, 5/7 December1996

European Parliament

Rue Belliard corner Rue Maerlant - Room MAE3

Provisional agenda

Thursday 5 DECEMBER

15.00/16.00 hrs. registration

16.00/19,30 hrs.

chairman

Jean Francois HORY, President of the Transnational Radical Party

speakers

Emma BONINO, European Commissioner

Comte Pol BO L, former liberal Senator

Daniel COHN-BENDIT, MEP

Bernard KOUCHNER, MEP

Ethan NADELMANN, President of"Lindesmith Center", promotor of the referendum for the therapeutical use of marijuana in California and Arizona

rapporteurs

Marco PANNELLA

The nonviolent antiprohibitionist initiative

Prof. Ambros UCHTENHAGEN, Institut fur Suchtforschung, Zurich

Controlled distribution of heroine:the Swiss experience

friday' 6 december

9.30/13.00 hrs.- 15.30/19.00 hrs. general debate

speaker

AndrÄ DECOURRIERE,Avocat au barreau de Bruxelles, assistant ê l ULB; drugs in Europeean union.

Antonio MARTINO MP, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy*

rapporteurs

Carmelo PALMA, president of the Subcommittee on drug addiction, City council of Turin

Drugs, healthcare systems and the rights of citizens

Carla ROSSI,Full Professor of Mathematical statistics, Rome Tor Vergata University, department of Mathematics, statistical. Consultant UNDCP

A monitoring system for drug policies in the world

Fabrizio STARACE Professor of Mental Hygiene at the University of Naples Honorary lecturer at the Royal free hospital school of medicine, University of London. Former consultant of WHO.

Intoxicated by prohibitionism: the case of Ecstasy

saturday 7 december

9.30/13.00 hrs. adoption of founding statutes

* to be confirmed

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during the session the contributions of a number of MEPs who support cora/PAA (PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR ANTIPROHIBITIONIST ACTION European Campaign for the Revision of the International Conventions on Drugs) are planned.

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