The Scip Database and Circularity in the EU

Rémi is Head of Unit Risk Management II at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), responsible for the Applications for Authorisation process and Socio-Economic Analysis- and Substitution-related activities.

Therese is Product Requirement Manager for chemicals at the Range & Product Development Department at IKEA, Sweden, which is the unit responsible to develop the whole IKEA product range as well as securing the Supply of it. Therese is leading the Requirement Development team, responsible for setting the IKEA chemical product requirements. She is also responsible for the global IKEA Chemical Strategy and is leading the work to phase-out and substitute chemicals of concern.

Mario is Global Head of Product Environmental Protection & Compliance at Siemens Healthineers and chairs the Environmental & Sustainability Committee at MedTech. From the start of his career he has worked on Product Environmental Protection. Chemicals of concern, circular economy, energy-efficiency, CO2-reduction and life-cycle-assessments are his focus topics - with trying to seek consensus across the different stakeholder groups.

Aidan is Director of BOMcheck, an industry-led substances declarations web database, and the EC4P web database system for WEEE, Batteries and Packaging compliance. In 2003 Aidan wrote the UK Government Guidelines on WEEE and RoHS compliance that companies must abide by in order to remain compliant. In 2008 he represented the European Union medical device industry in RoHS Directive negotiations with the European Commission.

Hannela is a government officer who drafts environmental legislation and has worked with both chemicals management under REACH, RoHS and POPs regulations and with waste management. Both experiences have provided her with the ideal perspective from which to regulate substances through their whole lifecycle in the circular economy framework. She firmly believes in using a harmonised approach in the application of environmental legislation. The success of a requirement will depend on whether it adequately takes into account requirements in related fields and how actors perceive and implement it.

Romano is an environmental engineer with a Ph.D in Geoengineering. He works as technical officer in an Italian regional Environmental Protection Agency, working as Environmental Inspector and Permit Writer. He also manages the IMPEL Waste Management & Circular Economy project, within which the Guidance ‘Making the Circular Economy Work’ has been issued.

Enrique is a biochemist and a toxicologist working as a policy officer in the Waste and Secondary Materials Unit of DG Environment. He works in areas related to the interface between chemicals, products and waste and is currently involved in the implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan. Before joining the European Commission in 2010 he worked for 19 years as a consultant in the fields of environmental management and chemical safety.

Telmo, a Portuguese national with a PhD in chemistry, has more than 7 years experience at the European Chemicals Agency . He has been working in several regulatory risk management activities, in particular concerning substances in articles. He is also a member of the project team to set up the SCIP database as foreseen by the Waste Framework Directive.

Claudia started as A2A's Technical Manager of analytical activities in the company internal laboratories, also as a safety delegate in the work area related to the assigned task. She is the contact person for internal regulatory technical updating both on aspects of analytical methods in use or in validation and on variations in both national and European level with a high participation in working groups and technical/regulatory tables both at national and international level.

André is the interface of Scholz Recycling between the various recycling operations and the political work within national and European associations. As Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing, he is directly involved in the business development and the R&D activities in mainly metal and plastic recycling.

Elise has been working for EEB on chemicals policies and focuses on detoxifying the emerging circular economy thanks to chemicals regulations and policies. From REACH-chemicals, to the interface between chemicals products and waste, to plastics or nanotechnologies, she covers a wide range of issues.

Ioannis is a scientific expert in Division IV of the German Environment Agency, dealing with environmental risk assessment and identification of hazardous chemicals within the framework of the EU REACH regulation. He is currently the managing partner for the LIFE AskREACH project.

Mikael is researcher in the field of environmental management and chemicals. His main areas of expertise are chemicals in products and life cycle assessment (LCA). He is project leader and expert in the network 'The Swedish Chemicals Group' at RISE for the textile and the electrical and electronic industry. He performs and reviews LCA studies in publicly funded research projects as well as on commission, both by companies and by the Swedish EPA.

Don is a Product Environmental Compliance Manager for Coherent in Santa Clara, California. Among his various duties and responsibilities, he is responsible for Coherent’s entire product portfolio in maintaining compliance to numerous hazardous substances & materials legislation globally. This often includes legal interpretation of regulations and legislation in the jurisdictions in which Coherent sells products.

Erwin has been Echa's Head of Unit Support and Enforcement since June 2019. Previously he worked at Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council, where he was director REACH/ Chemicals policy. He was an observer in the Competent Authorities Meeting for REACH and Classification and Labelling, as well in different Committees of ECHA and he was Sherpa in the Directors Contact Group.