Pre-congress tours/Activities for accompanying persons
DESTINATION PLUS offers several pre-congress tours that will enable you to visit sites and monuments that are a must in Spain, or to relax while enjoying all that this wonderful country has to offer:

• PRE-CONGRESS TOUR No.1 Ø "The Treasures of Andalusia: Granada and Cordoba"
  3 days/2 nights – From Sunday, October 25 to Tuesday 27.
• PRE-CONGRESS TOUR No.2 Ø "Golf & Spa in Marbella"
  3 days/2 nights – From Saturday, October 24 to Monday 26.
• PRE-CONGRESS TOUR No.3 Ø "Madrid"

You will also have the opportunity to visit Seville and its surroundings during the congress.

The details of the pre-congress activities and activities for accompanying persons are given on pages 36 to 40 in the programme. The DESTINATION PLUS reservation form has been attached, to enable you to make reservations.

In the event the number of participants registered is insufficient on September 8, 2009, the concerned pre-congress tour and activities for accompanying persons may be cancelled or postponed to another date for with a greater number of participants have registered.

DESTINATION PLUS
58, rue Saint Lambert
75015 Paris, France
Tel.: +33 (1) 56 08 37 37
Fax: +33 (1) 56 08 37 38
Email: congres-uia@destinationplus.fr
Website: www.destinationplus-uia.com

Opening of the legal year of the Madrid Bar
On Friday, October 23 and Saturday 24, “Encuentros en Madrid” – Opening of the legal year of the Madrid Bar – shall take place, during which the bar's Medal of Honour shall be awarded to the UIA President, Bernd REINMÜLLER.
Those who wish to take part in these events may consult the website www.icam.es or get in touch with María ROZPIDE (Tel. +34 914 315 553 or email internacional@icam.es).

Accreditation                                                                                   
Within the framework of continuing legal education, the UIA has obtained the official accreditation of the:
> French Bar Council (Conseil National des Barreaux) – CNB France (21 hours of training have been validated for congress participants)
> French-speaking and German-speaking Law Society (Ordre des Barreaux francophones et germanophones – O.B.F.G.) and the Flemish Law Society – O.V.B. (18 training points have been granted for congress participants).

Each congress participant shall receive a certificate of participation.

The UIA is also pursuing this approach with organisations in other countries. Please contact it for more detailed information.

Interpretation

The above table summarises the meetings for which simultaneous interpretation has been organised as of date.
Upon your arrival at the congress, please consult the final programme to verify whether simultaneous interpretation is being provided in other languages or for other meetings.

UIA wishes to thank the Libyan Bar for funding simultaneous interpretation in Arabic for some of the sessions.

Congress venue
Meliá Lebreros Hotel
Luís de Morales, 2
41018 Sevilla – España (Spain)
Tel.: +34 954 57 94 00
Fax: +34 954 58 27 26
Website: www.melialebreros.solmelia.com

Shuttles/Access
A shuttle service will be set up for transfers between the Meliá Lebreros Hotel and other congress hotels.
The organisers are planning to provide a transfer service between the Meliá Lebreros Hotel and the other congress hotels in the mornings, before and after the lunch break and in the evenings.
For all evening programmes, transfers to and from your hotel will be provided. The shuttle timings will be given to you upon your arrival and posted up in the congress hotels.

Organisers’ address
To register for the congress and for any information on the UIA and/or the congress, please contact the:

UNION INTERNATIONALE DES AVOCATS
25, rue du Jour
75001 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 1 44 88 55 66 – Fax: +33 1 44 88 55 77
Email: uiacentre@uianet.org
Website: www.uianet.org 

To reserve your hotel, register for activities for accompanying persons and for pre-congress activities, please contact:

DESTINATION PLUS
58, rue Saint Lambert
75015 Paris, France
Tel.: +33 (1) 56 08 37 37
Fax: +33 (1) 56 08 37 38
E-mail: congres-uia@destinationplus.fr
Website: www.destinationplus-uia.com

Assistance during the Congress
For any further information, representatives of the UIA and Destination Plus will be at your disposal at the Meliá Lebreros Hotel to answer all your questions.

Accompanying persons
Members of the legal profession cannot be registered as accompanying persons for the congress. Accompanying persons are not authorised to attend the technical sessions.
To be able to participate in the social activities, accompanying persons need to have registered and paid the corresponding registration fees. They will be given a special badge.

Badge
The badge (congress participant or accompanying person) shall have a bar code on which your activities will be recorded and which can be used as a pass. Please keep it with you at all times for access to sessions as well as lunches and other social activities.

The bar code on your badge will be scanned at the entrance of rooms, both for meetings and for all social activities, to check your identity.

First-time participants at a UIA Congress
In order to enable faithful participants of the UIA’s annual congresses as well as the Association’s officials to offer a specially warm welcome to those (UIA members or non-members) attending a UIA congress for the first time, their badge will indicate that they are first-time participants.

Lunches
Lunches have been organised to give you ample time to meet friends and colleagues. They will be served at the Meliá Lebreros Hotel itself. Access will be on presentation of your badge and meals will be based on the selection you have made on your registration form.

Exhibition
An exhibition will be held for the entire duration of the congress.
 
List of Congress participants
You can consult the list of participants along with their contact details on the UIA Website’s Seville congress section, under “My UIA congress”, at any time. However, you need to have registered for the congress first.
 
Congress Reports
All congress participants who have paid their registration fees will receive a copy of the CD-ROM containing the reports received in electronic format by UIA latest by July 31, 2009. Reports received after this date but before the congress will be available on the UIA Website, www.uianet.org, in the section “My UIA congress”, for all registered participants who have paid their registration fees. During the closing ceremony, the Monique-Raynaud Contamine Award will be conferred on the best reports.

Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award
In 1999, the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) established the Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award in memory of and as a tribute to Mrs Monique Raynaud-Contamine, a former UIA Director of Legal Publications, and former President of the Banking Law Commission. Monique Raynaud-Contamine was a vitally important UIA member for several years.
The Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award was established in homage to her work and her personality and is granted to the authors of the two best legal reports drafted for UIA’s annual congresses. One of the two awards will be conferred on a young lawyer. In addition, the two winners will receive a prize awarded by the legal publishers, Bruylant (Brussels).

Changes and Additions
Some names and certain meetings or activities have not been given in this programme, as we did not receive confirmations in time. We invite you to consult the UIA Website www.uianet.org regularly, especially the section on the “Seville congress”, as this will enable you to learn about the changes and additions made in the congress programme. The final programme will be handed over to participants at the congress venue, including all updates and logistical information.

To directly access the Seville congress Website, please log on to the home page of UIA’s Website, www.uianet.org, and click on the “Seville congress” icon located at the bottom, left.