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Civil status in the XXIst century: Dusk or dawn?
Colloquy proceedings organised to mark the 60 years of existence of the ICCS (13-14/03/2009)

Content of the proceedings

1st session

2nd session

1 - Welcome and opening address
Roland Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg
8 - Security and civil status: reconciling divergent interests
Jean Massot, Honorary President of the Finance Section of the Council of State and member of the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL), Paris (F)
2 - Presentation of the ICCS and introduction
Jean Mazars, Counselor at the Court of Cassation, President of the French Section, and President of the ICCS 2008-2009
3 - The purposes of civil status
President: Jean Pierre Montagne, Director of the Central Civil Registry Office (SCEC), Nantes (F)
4 - Civil status, identity and identification
Alain Touraine, Sociologist, Paris (F)
Civil status and various aspects of truth: legal truth – psychic truth – scientific truth – use of science for identification purposes
9 - “Legal Truth and Civil Status", Walter Pintens, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (B)
10 - “Psychic Truth”, Roseline Ricco, Center for Science, Society, and Citizenship, Rome (I)
11 - “Scientific Truth”, Emmanouil Papasavvas, Scientist at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
12 - “Civil-status office, creator of identity”, Fons Knopjes, Director of the ID-Management Center, The Hague (NL)
13 - The probative value of civil-status records: infringement of State sovereignty or protection of the State
Christine Bidaud-Garon, Lecturer at Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 University, Center for Family Law (F)
14 - Civil status and the protection of the individual under the European Convention on Human Rights
Luis Silveira, President of the National Data Protection Commission, Lisbon (P)
5 - Civil status registers and population registers: Battling brothers or Siamese twins? ​
René de Groot, Maastricht University (NL)

3rd session

Looking outwords: description of non-Western systems
6 - “China”, Harro Von Senger, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Dorigny (CH) and University of Fribourg/Br (D)
7 - “Algeria”, Sami Aldeeb, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Dorigny (CH)
15 - Civil status confronted with modern technology
President : Roger Campariol, Director of the Department of population and religious affairs for the city of Strasbourg (F)
From the quill pen to cyberadministration :
16 - “The Swiss Infostar experience", Urs Bürge, Lawyer and Computer Scientist, Infostar System (CH)
17 - “The experience of Scotland”, Duncan Macniven, Registrar General for Scotland, Edinburgh (UK)
18 - “Permanence and conservation of civil-status records”, Françoise Banat-Berger, French National Archives
Civil registrar: task of the past? Career for the future?
19 - “Germany”, Beate Anefeld, Civil Registrar in Kaiserslautern, Germany (D)
20 - “Belgium", Danielle Adriaenssens, Director of the population and civil registry office, Liège (B)
21 - "Luxembourg", Jules Becker, Chief Registrar of the City of Luxembourg (L)
22 - Conclusions by the General Rapporteur
Rainer Frank, Professor at the University of Freiburg/Br. (D)
Closing of the colloquy
23 - Paul Lagarde, Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (F), Secretary General of the ICCS, 2000–2008
24 - Joanna Schmidt-Szalewski, Professor at the University of Strasbourg, Secretary General of the ICCS, 2009-2011