CER - ASEAN

Integration Partnership Forum

 

Seminar One: CER/SEM - a unique integration pathway

When: 25 June 2011 from 2-5.45pm
Where: Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The CER-ASEAN Integration Partnership Forum (IPF) was launched in Kuala Lumpur on 25 June. The event attracted a high level of senior ASEAN participation. The CER team, comprising New Zealand and Australian government, business and academic figures, delivered dynamic insights on the lessons learned from CER and the Single Economic Market (SEM). Participants expressed interest in future seminars.

After the Event

Photographs

• Photographs from Seminar one

Video

• The CER/SEM Story. Simon Murdoch, former Chief Executive Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Presentations

• Presentations by Robert Scollay (A brief history of CER); Geoff Miller (Evolution of CER to SEM); Kerry McDonald (Business perspective); Christopher Findlay (Services integration); Marc Mowbray-d'Arbela (Institutional Cooperation); and Simon Murdoch (Lessons learned). (MSPowerpoint 280KB)

Seminar One

• Seminar one programme
• New ASEAN-CER Initiative - By Tim Groser and Craig Emerson, New Zealand and Australian Ministers of Trade
• Seminar One New Zealand speakers' profiles
• Seminar One Australian speakers' profiles
• ASEAN's host country representative's profile

Seminar One programme

2pm: Introductory and scene-setting remarks by Ambassador David Taylor, Datuk Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria and Michael Mugliston (Australia's senior economic official to ASEAN meetings with Dialogue Partners).

Session one:

2.20 - 3.35pm: The CER story

• Brief History of CER: how and why it works – Dr Robert Scollay
• Evolution of CER to SEM - Geoff Miller
• Business perspective - Kerry McDonald

3.20pm: Q and A for session one - Ambassador David Taylor

3.35pm: Afternoon tea

Session two:

3.50 - 5.45pm: Integration in Practice

• Case Study: Services Integration – Professor Christopher Findlay
• Case Study: Institutional Cooperation – Marc Mowbray-d’Arbela
• Lessons Learned – Simon Murdoch

4.50pm: Q and A for session two –Michael Mugliston

5.15pm: Looking ahead to future seminars by Ambassador David Taylor

5.30pm: Closing Remarks by Datuk Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria and Michael Mugliston

The Seminar will conclude by 5.45pm

Reception: from 7pm-9.30pm at the New Zealand High Commissioner's Residence, 15 Jalan Langgak Golf, Kuala Lumpur. 
 
A coach will be available to take guests from the East Wing Lobby of the Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur to the High Commissioner’s residence at 6.30pm.  The coach will depart the High Commissioner's residence for the Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur at 9.30 pm.

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