The First Annual Conference on EU Law in November 2003 mainly concerned the question of the level of preparedness of the national judicial organs for the work in the EU law environment. Now, after one year and a half of membership in the EU, the introductive topic of the Third annual conference on EU law will be about the changes which were introduced as a consequence of the membership into the work of the national judicial organs. This year conference will be held from 17th to 19th November 2005 in Hotel Larix in Kranjska Gora and has been organised by the Institute of European studies (www.evropski-institut.si), and co-organised by the European law Academy (ERA) from Trier (www.era.int) and in partnership with the European Law Students' Association (ELSA) - Ljubljana (www.elsa-ljubljana.org) and the Slovenian Young Lawyers Association (SYLA) (www.syla.org).

Among more than 30 lecturers and moderators of this year's conference will be legal experts of a high reputation in Community law matters such as Prof. Dr. Marko Ilešič, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Dr. Wolfgang Heusel, director of ERA, Prof. dr. Lovro Šturm, minister of justice and others.

The conference will be divided into two sessions, the institutional one on one side, where the lectures will mainly concern the experience of the national judicial organs after one year and a half of membership in the EU, the future prospects of the European constitution as well as some open questions concerning the future of the Schengen acquis. The commercial law section will on the other side deal with questions of state aids as well as with the competition on the regulated markets where the special emphasis will be given to the market of electronic telecommunications.

The additional value of this year's conference will be an introduction of two workshops. The first one will be devoted to the question of drafting the preliminary references addressed to the Court of Justice and the second one will deal with practical aspects of EU environmental law.