Autor: AEA - EAL

To: Ms. Hilarie Bass
President of the American Bar Association

On behalf of the European Association of Lawyers and on my own behalf I express sincere condolences to all American people touched by the terrible tragedy that occurred yesterday in Las Vegas.

We are deeply shocked by this senseless act of violation causing so many death and injuries. Our thoughts and prayers are with Americans killed or wounded as well as with their families.

I personally would like to pass my words of commiserations also to all past Presidents of the American Bar Association, with whom I had an honor to co-operate within last years – to William C. Hubbard, Paulette Brown and Linda A. Klein.

I assure you that we, European lawyers, will always stand united against violence and terror, supporting fundamental values of democratic society.

Yours sincerely,

Maria Ślązak

Conference “Practical aspects of the EU regulation 2016/679 concerning the protection of personal data. How the lawyers should be prepared?” took place on September 7-9, 2017 in Olsztyn. The AEA-EAL was a co-organizer of this event with its four prestigious speakers from United Kingdom (Iain Mitchell QC), Hungary (Peter Homoki), China (Susan Ning) and Poland (Manana Topolewska). Dean of the Olsztyn Bar Association Katarzyna Skrodzka – Sadowska and AEA-EAL President Maria Ślązak welcomed participants underlying that presence of lawyers and other guests from seven countries shows a European dimension of the conference. AEA-EAL President highlighted also importance General Data Protection Regulation (further GDPR), its practical aspects of implementation and preparation of lawyers and law firms for the new legal regime. AEA-EAL speakers presented relations of the coming law with the professional secrecy, guidelines of international organization of lawyers on implementation GDPR rules by lawyers and on how to advise clients on application of the Regulation, influence of the GDPR on business processes inside the company as well as on non- EU regulations in the area of data protection including transfer of data to another jurisdiction. The presentations also touched upon the best personal data protection practices under the GDPR, the tools for safe, effective and compliant with law transfer of personal data and practical examples of GDPR implementation challenges for lawyers. Participants also benefitted from the comprehensive cultural program, which allowed them to discover the beauty and hospitality of Warmia and Masuria Region.

Conference presentations are available here

We are pleased to inform that two new bar associations has been admitted as full members of the European Associations of Lawyers (AEA-EAL): Białystok Bar Association and Georgian Bar Association. Both organizations applied for membership in the AEA-EAL with the aim of wide co-operation in organizing common projects, events and other undertakings in line with Association’s statuary goals.

The Georgian Bar Association (GBA) is the only official bar in the Republic of Georgia with mandatory membership of all Georgian lawyers. Currently GBA has over 3,600 members. The main seat of the bar is located in Tbilisi – the capital of Georgia. The GBA maintains wide relations with bar associations in Europe, Caucasus and middle Asia actively participating in international exchanges and training of lawyers.

The President of the Georgian Bar Association is Mr. Zaza Khatiashvili.

Białystok Bar Association is one of 19 regional bars of attorneys in the Republic of Poland and associates around 1200 lawyers. The main seat of the bar is located in Bialystok, a capital of Podlasie region in north-east part of Poland famous, among others, of the last of natural forest in Europe – Bialowieża Forest.

Białystok Bar Association cooperated already with the AEA-EAL organising in 2015 a seminar on European family law.

The Dean of the Białystok Bar Association is Mr. Andrzej Kaliński.

On behalf of the European Association of Lawyers we would like to thank you for participation in the conference on General Regulation of Data Protection (GDPR) held in Olsztyn on September 7-9, 2017.

The conference was a part of AEA-EAL programme on European law, conducted together with Regional Bar Associations in Poland. Since 2010 we have organized ten conferences and seminars on various areas of community regulations, being met with high interest of Polish colleagues.

We are delighted that you had an opportunity to meet our speakers from Poland, Hungary and United Kingdom presenting in a very practical way national and European dimension of the GDPR. Presence of speaker from China was an excellent opportunity to touch the problem of data exchange with non-EU jurisdiction, being particularly important in the context of growing political, commercial and legal influence of China in our part of the continent.

Conference presentations are available for download in pdf.

Marlena Sakowska Baryla

Peter Homoki

Controller’s obligations

Anna Kaczyńska

Olga Zabolewicz

Dominik Lubasz

Ning Susan1

Manana Topolewska

On behalf of the European Association of Lawyers and on my own behalf I express my deepest condolences to all Catalonian and Spanish people, but above all, to the families of those, who have been killed in a terrorist attack, which happened yesterday in Barcelona. My thoughts remain also with all people injured in this senseless violence.

It is deeply worrying that so many tragedies occurred recently in Europe. There is strong need to fight together against terrorism. I am sure that this horrific act of violence will only strengthen the commitment of Catalonian and Spanish people to protect peace and freedom.

As a longtime friends of Catalonian and Spanish lawyers we wish to assure you about our solidarity and our support for core values of humanity, violated yesterday.

Maria Ślązak
AEA-EAL President

On June 15-16-17, took place at the Barcelona Bar Association the congress of the our Association, with a very important and successful conference on the new European Regulation about cross-border insolvencies, and the forthcoming Proposal for a Directive on preventive restructuring frameworks and Fresh Start opportunities.

This new Regulation and the forthcoming Proposal for a Directive represent a major step forward in achieving uniform insolvency regulation at European level. This is to avoid obstacles in the management of processes, since more and more companies have branches, and workplaces spread throughout Europe.

The conference in Barcelona brought together a dozen experts from different countries who debated before the participants about their respective systems and the opportunities and advantages of a more harmonized system.

The conference was opened by the member of the Board of the Barcelona Bar, responsible for international affairs.

But not all was work! There were different very kind events for the network and relaxing.