Biocides Europe 2020

In 2009 Mario started as administrator at the pharmaceuticals unit in DG Enterprise. In January 2015 he started in the unit E3/ Pesticides and Biocides of DG for Health and Food Safety (currently unit DG SANTE E4). In the biocides team his main responsibilities are endocrine disruptors, treated articles, maximum residue limits and controls. Currently he is Acting Head of Sector of biocides.

Claudio's background is in chemistry, and he has been working in ECHA’s Biocidal Active substances Unit (D1) as a regulatory officer since 2019. He coordinates guidance development activities, support communication initiatives, and works on improving ECHA’s webpages dedicated to biocides.

Andrea has a degree in Biology and Business Administration working since more than 10 years in the biocidal field. She is leading the biocide team for Europe at Ecolab, the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services; providing and protecting what is vital: clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments.

Sander has worked as a researcher on the development and application of in vitro assays. In 2013, he joined the European Commission at the Joint Research Centre, where he worked on the assessment of endocrine disruption and the regulatory acceptance of alternative tests. While at the JR, he helped draft the current EFSA/ECHA guidance on the assessment of endocrine disrupting properties of plant protection products and biocidal products. In 2018, Sander joined ECHA, where he works in the Biocides Active Substances unit as an environmental expert.

Sabine worked several years in industry on the preparation of REACH dossiers and environmental monitoring projects. Since 2015 she has been working at ARCHE Consulting, focussing on environmental risk assessment projects. She is also involved in the development of environmental exposure assessment tools and in various projects regarding endocrine disruptor assessment.

Helen’s specific expertise covers data gap analysis reports, technical equivalence reviews and consumer risk assessments for Plant Protection Products, Biocidal product registration and REACH dossiers. She worked for 9 years as a Product Registration Specialist at a leading paint and protective coatings company, where she specialised in biocidal paint products.

David has recently retired after 35 years in global legislative processes, and a wide range of experience of EU biocide committees, working groups and technical workshops. In addition to his recent role as Senior Regulatory Analyst in Chemical Watch he worked for just under 20 years at UK HSE (UK Competent Authority for Biocides) as well as 7 years in industry and 5 years as a consultant.

Relevant Employment: 2019 – until now: Deputy Head of Biocides Efficacy Unit -ANSES  2008-2019 : ANSES Senior Efficacy projects manager for biocides  July 2005-2008 : ANSES Junior exposure project manager – Emission scenario document for Biocides Junior efficacy project manager for biocides

A microbiologist with 20+ years professional experience Meredith has been with Ecolab (Nalco Water) Biocides Regulatory for 5 years, prior to that, she worked in R&D for Diversey and P&G. She is an active member within CEN and a regular participant in BPC EFF WG meetings on behalf of A.I.S.E. She holds expertise in antimicrobials, EU Biocides Regulation, Active Substance dossiers, in situ chemistries, EN norms and BPR efficacy strategy.

In 2021 Daniela joined knoell as regulatory affair manager for biocidal products. Since 2013 she has managed projects aimed to Biocidal Products authorization, offering support from the data gap analysis to the product authorization. Due to her previous laboratory experience, her expertise on Biocidal products covers both the testing and the regulatory aspects of the projects.                                         

After about fifteen years spent in the chemical industry and more specifically in the field of the biocidal regulation since 2009, Fabien joined Redebel Regulatory Affairs two years ago as project and consortium manager. This combines experience in industry with the consultancy area to advise and support companies in their regulatory proceedings.

Henrik is associate professor in ecotoxicology. His research focuses on endpoints to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in fish, amphibians and invertebrates. He has developed and validated OECD test guidelines to detect EDCs since 2001. He is member of OECD VMG-Eco, the ECHA ED expert group and the newly established EFSA ED expert group and is currently coordinating the EU Horizon 2020 project ERGO and Co-coordinating the EU Horizon 2020 EURION cluster.

Camelia started her professional career at Cefic in 2009. Since 2016, she has led Biocides for Europe (B4E) where she actively follows the regulatory developments of the EU biocides legislation. She represents B4E in the various fora at EU level & provides support, information & advice to members in the area of compliance & implementation.

Lauren graduated with a BA in English Literature and Publishing and has worked in marketing for publishing companies and B2B service providers for the last three years. She joined the Chemical Watch marketing team in 2020. Her role includes campaign management and supporting day-to-day marketing activities.

Cindy van der Meer is Account Manager Biocides at the Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb) in the Netherlands. Cindy has a PhD in Medical Biology and joined the biocides team of the Ctgb in 2010. She has been working as a project manager for 8 years. Since 2018 she is Account Manager of the Biocides team and in this role, she is the first point of contact for companies wishing to apply for a biocides registration at the Ctgb.

Tineke obtained a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences in the field of crop protection chemistry from Ghent University in Belgium. She is working in the field of chemical regulations with a focus on biocides since 2012.

Danielle has more than 20 years' experience in regulatory work, focusing on all legislation concerning chemicals, detergents and biocidal legislation in particular. Currently, she is responsible for all registration in Europe at Diversey Europe. Her team has successfully applied for BPR registrations and has submitted many more under Union and simplified process with a focus on disinfection products.

Elodie is responsible for issues related to biocides and for providing support to A.I.S.E. members in implementing the BPR. She represents A.I.S.E. in various EU fora, including the Biocides Competent Authorities, Coordination Group, and ECHA Biocidal Products Committee.

Dorota holds PhD degrees in Biology (Biochemistry) and in Biomedical Sciences (Nanotoxicology). Prior to joining Zero Waste Europe (ZWE), Dorota was leading the Safer Chemicals programme at Health Care Without Harm Europe, and worked for the European Commission (DG Joint Research Center) and at the Department of Public Health of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). At ZWE, Dorota's work focuses on the topic of non-toxicity of products and packaging (food packaging in particular), and clean and effective material cycles needed for achievement of a truly circular economy.

After nine years of research on probiotics for environmental applications, Robin joined the company Chrisal as R&D manager to start the probiotic cleaning concept. In 2014, he became shareholder and CEO of Chrisal NV. Today, synbiotic infection control is the specialty of Chrisal and Robin is mainly in charge of R&D and regulatory affairs.

Lonne has a background in plant protection research. From 2007 till 2018 she worked for the Dutch competent authority, Ctgb, as an expert on efficacy of biocides. She was a member of the ECHA BPR WG on efficacy and was involved in the preparation of efficacy guidance over the years. In her current role at Knoell NL, Lonne is part of Knoell’s efficacy task force and supports clients with her expertise in the efficacy and regulatory area.

Sara moved to biocides in 2009. Two years ago she received a Master's degree in Risk Assessment of chemicals.She has been working for the EU review programme 98/8/CE (Biocides) and on substances and products making several applications for product authorisation and mutual recognition of biocidal products PT 14-18-19 under the BPR. She is representative in CEFIC General assembly and Rodenticide Working Group and Task forces/consortia representative.

Geraldine has worked in the regulatory affairs area throughout he career, starting at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) and then in industry. She works at national, European and global level, mostly in the area of crop protection but also on biocides and medical devices.

Nathalie has 22 years’ experience in regulatory affairs, 8 in Plant Protection Products and 15 in the Biocide business. Among her past activities she has led the EU Regulatory department of a major biocides production company. For more than 2 years, Nathalie has been head of the EU Biocides group of CEHTRA.

Paul is the manager of the Microbial Control Executive Council (MCEC), a sector group of Cefic. MCEC members are the leading worldwide manufacturers of microbial control solutions. The group works on promoting the broad benefits these solutions provide to society. Before joining Cefic he started in Brussels in 2014 working as a trainee in the EU office of the food company Danone, then spent four years at Cosmetics Europe designing public affairs strategies, managing relations with the European Parliament and advising on advocacy and regulatory issues.

Darren enables clients throughout the chemicals and life sciences supply chain to get and keep their products on the European market (both in the UK and the EU). He provides a global clientele (companies, consortia and trade associations) with strategic advice, undertakes advocacy before public authorities and agencies and litigates before courts and tribunals (including the ECHA board of appeal and CJEU). Darren has a wealth of experience with regulation of biocidal products, plant protection products, REACH, CLP, food and feed, GMOs and wider aspects of environmental law, including extensive work with the Aarhus convention. He loves tackling “impossible” problems, learning new fields and working in multi-disciplinary client teams, with scientists, business leaders, regulatory and public affairs specialists and (even other) lawyers.