1^st  Day Monday, 24. September 2007

09:30 hrs      Introduction to the Seminar and the Participants

10.00        Lecture and Discussion:  Problems of Legitimacy in the System of European Multi-level Governance

11.-11.30         Break

12.00                   Short introduction to debate on the Legitimacy and Functioning of the EU institutions[1]

12.30                              Lunch

14.0                                  Group work: Preparation of Debates, Guidelines for debate will handed out

16.00            End of First Day

2^nd Day, Tuesday, September 2007

9:30 hrs       Reporting back from Group Work and Debate

10.30              Break

11.00              Lecture on National Parliamentary Control in the EU from a Comparative Perspective

Coffeebreak

11.30              Parliamentary Control in the EU (cont.)

12.00              Introduction to a Simulation of a Meeting of a Council Working Party
and Preparation of Simulation (Mandates and background material will be handed out)

Afternoon: Individual Preparation for Simulation and (Re-)Reading of Background Information for Simulation

3^rd Day Wednesday, 26. September  2007

09:30 hrs        Simulation of a Council Working Party

10.30                             Break

12.00   Evaluation of Simulation and Discussion on “Legitimacy” of Negotiations              in the EU

12.30                             Lunch

14.0                   Lecture on “Solutions” to Legitimacy Problems in the EU (i.a. in the                          Reform Treaty)

15.00               Break

16.00               Final Discussion and Evaluation of Seminar

16.30              End of Seminar