Conferences

The conferences disseminate the state of the art and compare practices. They address subjects ripe for debate: application of a convention, first feedback on a tool, developments in a market.

They also prepare the work of the General Assembly by identifying issues that deserve a resolution or a directive.

The programme committee, made up of ten experts, proposes themes at the end of the previous year on the basis of requests from Member States, reports to the Desk and recommendations of the OIMAP Review.

The Council approves the calendar. An urgent theme may be added during the year, for example following an exceptional trafficking case.

Conferences are open to public officials, market professionals, researchers and students. Registration is online and participation is free for public officials.

Remote participants follow the debates live and ask questions through the chat. Sessions are subtitled.

A conference generally includes an opening address, two round tables, a question session and a conclusion. Some include a practical workshop in the afternoon.

Large-scale conferences run over two days and gather up to six hundred people. Smaller formats, of fifty people, encourage discussion.

Each conference results in a report within ten days, a video recording within four weeks and the full proceedings within ninety days.

These three products are archived and available without time limit. They also feed the Academy modules.