The 23rd Congress, held in Cork (Ireland) was attended by 201 delegates and almost 70 accompanying persons. The technical programme and the majority of the papers presented to the congress, are presented below. The quality of the technical pro-gramme was outstanding. The debates on the new European insolvency regulation, the possibility to connect with Chapter 11 BC proceedings with protocols or the new UK Companies Act, to mention only some of the highlights of the congress, fascinated the delegates so that they may not have even realized that the weather was not as in Malta the year before. There are some changes to the components of our com-mittees and executives which you can see in the relevant section on the web site. From my point of view, to be appointed as president of INSOL Europe is a challenging task for the current year. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions to make.

Congress papers

BEDDING DOWN OF CHANGES
German Experiences after the Introduction of the New Insolvency Code
Christoph G. Paulus,
Professor of Law
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin