The European Confederation of Directors' Associations, ecoDa, and the Slovenian Directors' Association are very pleased to announce the celebration of the Corporate Governance Conference, which will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Tuesday, September 29th 2009.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CONFERENCE
Tuesday, 29th September 2009,
from 10.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
(Venue: building of Slovenian Chamber of Commerce)

The Conference will be held under the honorary patronage of the Slovenian Ministry of Finance

10.30 Speeches:
- dr. Franc Križanič, Minister, Ministry of Finance
- Juan Alvarez-Vijande, Chairman, European Confederation of Directors´ Association
- Borut Jamnik, Chairman, Slovenian Directors´ Association

10.50 Panel: Go vernance of State-owned enterprises - at the threshold of changeovernance of State-owned enterprises has a dominant impact on the entire practice in this field in Slovenia and is therefore of paramount importance. The state had not yet managed to withdraw from  the economy when Slovenia was faced with the global financial crisis. Many companies will continue to remain owned by the State; however the State has gained an even greater role. Due to the financial crisis Governance of SOE has become interesting in many countries worldwide as well, where so far the dominant influence of the State was not the case. For Slovenia, there is a challenge for regulation in this area in accordance with OECD Guidelines for State-owned enterprises and that brings the necessary changes in the regulation of this area following the example of other countries. Will Slovenia be able to take advantage of such opportunities to raise the quality of governance in these companies? What is the practice in other practice?

Panelists:

- Borut Jamnik, CEO, KAD d.d. and Supervisory Board Chairman of Zavarovalnice Triglav d.d.
- Andreja Kert, Ministry of Finance
- dr. Bogomir Kovač, Chairman of Goverment Nomination and Acreditation Committee
- Olli Virtanen, Finnish Association of Professional Board Members and ecoDa

dr. Marko Simoneti, moderator (former CEO, Ljubljana Stock Exchange, member of SB in SOE)

12.40 – 14.30 Panel: The effectiveness of self-regulations - Recommendations and corporategovernance codes in the EU and Slovenia

Both the EU and Slovenia formulated the type of codes and recommendations which would hopefully effectively regulate CG issues. At European level ecoDa is preparing European CG Principles for Unlisted Companies. In April 2009 the European Commission presented two new recommendations on remuneration regimes for listed companies and financial institutions in Member States, requiring not only disclosure and decision processes but also the structure and substance of remuneration. Many EU Member States have already changed the legal basis for directors’ remuneration. How will we be able to build a system of remuneration, which will be linked to the long-term interests of a company and what will be the role of shareholders deciding on Remuneration Policy? Governance of banks and financial institutions is under great supervision and regulations. Are they well regulated in times when they play the most important role in revitalizing the economy? What are the most important issues about the role of Government in it? Slovenia is in the course of revising the CG Code as the most important autonomous legal document in the area of Corporate Governance. Many of the provisions, which were until recently in the code, and other recommendations, are included in the legislation now, the standards are rising, but our practice always brings new challenges and problems. Is the autonomous regulation by codes effective enough?

Panelists:

- Gorazd Podbevšek, Slovenian Directors´ Association
- dr. Nataša Samec, Law Faculty, Ljubljana
- dr. Lutgart Van den Berghe, Guberna, Belgium and ecoDa
- Patrick Zurstrassten, Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs (ILA) and ecoDa

Leonardo F. Peklar, moderator