Global Business Summit 2018

• Danish market experience using the APP tracking SVHCs
• When do consumers get benefits using the tracking APP?
• Responsibilities when informing consumers about SVHCs
• The way forward for solid consumer information about SVHCs

Jakob Lamm Zeuthen

Head of Environment Policy, The Danish Chamber of Commerce

• Duty for article suppliers to communicate information on SVHCs in their articles
  LIFE AskREACH aims to facilitate SVHC communication between consumers and companies and between
• companies along the supply chain
• Database for article suppliers and smartphone app for consumers
• A supply chain communication tool for companies
• Invitation to volunteer as pilot companies

Arno Biwer

Group Leader Environment Policies, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

• Examples of where regulatory challenges are not yet understood
• Additional circular economy challenges
• Solutions

Martin Führ

Professor for Public Law, Comparative Law and Legal Theory, sofia/Darmstadt University for Applied Sciences, Germany

• Why the Candidate List is so important
• Population of the Candidate List is has become more and more complex and slow
• How the SIN List has played and will continue to play a role
• How, and when, can we reach the ”2020 target"

Anne-Sofie Bäckar

Executive Director, ChemSec

• What is material declaration in the context of the healthcare industry and why is it becoming critical?
• Roche’s philosophy and approach to material declaration
• Challenges of implementation: Complexity and extent of the task
• The Golden Rule or where does this road go?

Jan Backmann

Head Chemical Legislation, F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

• Our key chemicals of concern,
• Process of exclusion/replacement
• Verification testing
• Challenges on the way
• Getting fabric mills on board

Gareth Mottram

Commercial Director, Paramo Directional Clothing

• Mind the Store's criteria for retailer safer chemicals policies and programs
• RetailerReportCard.com - who are retailer leaders and laggards on safer chemicals?
• Examples of retailer initiatives addressing SVHCs in articles
• Recommendations for retailers to address SVHCs in products

Mike Schade

Director, Mind the Store, Toxic-Free Future, United States

• Aerospace specific examples - review of how industry standard was created
• Issues still faced with data
• Brexit - chaos and complexity - supply chain movement of articles, expected impact
• Sustainability - moving towards recycling and reuse
• Blockchains - The basis for future state chemical substance reporting

Raj Takhar

Senior Subject Matter Expert - Materials Management and Chemical Reporting (Europe), Assent

• Plastic usage in cars
• Substances in Articles - Challenge of data collection for complex articles
• The way, the Automotive Industry has solved it
• Why is it so difficult for other sectors to follow the AI example?
• The reason why industry as a whole has to have a solution soon -> REACH, consumer expectations and the circular economy (CE)
• Why is the current discussion on CE looking into the wrong solutions => Dismantling

Timo Unger

Manager Environmental Affairs, Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Centre, Germany

The panel will aim to assess what works - in terms of effective knowledge on SVHCs in products - what still needs to be addressed, and how different stakeholders can work together to improve information and management of SVHCs in articles

• Circular economy and the furniture sector: challenges and opportunities
• A smart chemical policy
• The need to close the cycle: why the interphase matters and EFIC suggestions

Roberta Dessi

Secretary General, EFIC - European Furniture Industries Confederation

• Why chemicals legislation needs to be adapted to the specificities of the recycling industry
• Specific challenges faced by the recycling industry within the current regulatory framework – concrete examples
• Position of the recycling industry and proposals for the way forward concerning the 4 key issues identified by the European Commission in its consultation document

Melissa Zill

Scientific Officer, European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) AISBL

• Why we are interested in circular economy
• Design restrictions to cope with recycling
• Initiatives to reduce waste
• The difficulty of getting a recycling partnership in place
• Where we are now, targets for input transition

Yukari Ishizu

Senior Manager, JEPLAN

Gareth Mottram

Commercial Director, Paramo Directional Clothing

• Update on a cross-country analysis of approaches to support substitution and alternatives assessment
• Design of sustainable plastics from a chemicals perspective
• PFASs - Shifting to alternatives
• Update on OECD’s Substitution and Alternatives Assessment Toolbox

Manuel Sosa-Skrainka

Sustainability Manager Benelux Region, HP, Nederland ICT, SAE

• Circular economy in the coatings industry in the UK
• PaintCare- the UK’s remanufactured paint initiative and how similar schemes have worked in other countries
• Examples of circular economy in UK manufacturing

Ellen Daniels

Head of Public Affairs and Policy, British Coating Foundation

How will circular economy activities impact chemicals management activities at the business level; how should businesses prepare - will the EU circular economy package be a game changer?