Regulatory Developments & Compliance Solutions @ Regulatory Summit Europe 2025

• Strategic role of the EU chemical industry as the “industry of industries”
• The Clean Industrial Deal: a new business plan for the competitiveness’ decarbonisation and resilience of EU industries
• The Chemicals Industry Package:
  • Timing and key elements
  • Simplification of REACH 

Kristin Schreiber

Director for Chemicals, Health, Retail and Agrifood, DG GROW, European Commission

• The competitiveness challenge for the EU chemical industry: status, issues, causes, solutions
• Is the clean industrial deal the ‘shock treatment’ that Mario Draghi recommended?
• Cefic views
  • priorities for the chemical sector
  • critical success factors 

Sylvie Lemoine

Deputy Director General, Cefic

• Why is a clean industrial deal necessary: Europe’s current challenge with competitiveness and attracting investments in decarbonization  

• How to make the Green Deal into the growth driver it was designed to be 

• The chemicals industry package and REACH simplification: Dow view on where the priorities should be 

Alexander Majer

Government Affairs Director, Chemicals Management, Dow

• The dirty concessions behind the “Clean” Industrial Deal
• Triple win transformation – opportunities for leveraging decarbonisation to tackle climate, pollution, and circular economy challenges
• A Clean Deal for people and the planet – EEB recommendations 

Tatiana Santos

Head of Chemicals, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Belgium

• Update on the preparations for the revision of REACH 2025
• Other DG ENV initiatives within the chemical industry package

Paul Speight

Head of the Safe and Sustainable Chemicals Unit in DG Environment, European Commission

• How is ECHA’s legal mandate changing?
• Implementation challenges and opportunities ahead 
• How we are preparing to meet our expanded mandate

Sharon McGuinness

Executive Director, European Chemicals Agency

• Results from recently finished projects (REF 11 on SDS, pilot on classification of mixtures including detergents and cleaning products and pilot on PFCAs in cosmetics)
• Ongoing activities for 2025
• Enforcement challenges and REACH review 

Henrik Hedlund

Chair of the ECHA Forum on Enforcement, The Swedish Chemicals Agency

• General expectations of what simplification of REACH should bring
• Ideas to simplify REACH rules without compromising on the protection of human health and the environment

Steven Van de Broeck

Executive Director Product Stewardship, Cefic

Additional panelists:

Otto Linher

Senior Expert, REACH Unit, DG Grow, European Commission

Diana Radovan

Director Sustainability Policy, IPC Electronics

• How are SMEs handling the new CLP requirements?
• What is clearer? What is more confusing? 

Marko Sušnik

Advisor to the Secretary General on Chemicals Policy, SMEunited, and Senior Advisor Chemical Policy, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ), SMEunited / WKÖ

• The new hazard classes – where we are and what is expected in the future
• The CLP regulation revision and its implementation – update from an industry perspective
• What still needs to be addressed as part of the CLP regulation revision?

André Schlichting

Regulatory Affairs Manager, Colgate-Palmolive Services CEW GmbH