Programme
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Coffee and registration
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Welcome
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Keynote Keynote address
DG GROW, EU Commission, Belgium
Michael Flueh
Head of the REACH Unit, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Belgium - Session 1: REACH & CLP enforcement: High level overviews
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Moderator:
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Update from ECHA's Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement
Eugen Anwander
Senior Scientific Officer, Institute for Environment and Food Safety, Vorarlberg State Service, Austria & Chair of Echa BPR Enforcement Forum, Finland -
Update on ECHA's Enforcement Forum
Current actions
- WG Activities and links to ECHA actions
- What was done and what will be done
- Some information on interlinks cases
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Future outlook
- Reach review and Refit – update on Forum involvement
- Links to other legislations (POP, OSH) and concept of circular economy
- Forum and the ECHA Strategic Priorities
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NGO perspective on enforcement
- Lack of economic and human resources for enforcement
- Divergencies of enforcement measures and sanctions across the EU member states
- Priority given to (non-dissuasive) soft measures even for very grave non-compliance
- Lack of transparency on the enforcement measures, non-compliant companies and substances in the market
Tatiana Santos
Policy Manager, Chemicals & Nanotechnology, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Belgium -
Q&A
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Refreshments
- Enforcement of restrictions under REACH
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Moderator:
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Enforcing restrictions under REACH: A Forum perspective
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Restrictions as a risk management tool: Cases and learnings in the non-ferrous metals industry
- Risk management option analysis: how does the restriction fit in the RMOA exercise? What are the main drivers?
- Process: how to best act and interact?
- Data and expertise needs on industry side
- Data review, including cost benefit analysis
- Considerations on enforceability
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Enforceability of proposed restriction on microplastics
- A legal perspective on the enforcement of REACH restrictions
- The proposed restriction on microplastics
- Are microplastics identified or identifiable under the proposed definition?
- Other issues related to the scope of the proposed restriction
- Issues related to the need to set analytical methods prior to the adoption or entry into force of proposed restrictions
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Panel on the enforceability of restrictions with Q&A
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Lunch
- Session 3: Emerging enforcement issues
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Moderator:
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Taking actions to ensure compliance: A joint action plan by ECHA and the Commission
- Achievements of dossier evaluation to date
- ECHA and Commission Joint Action Plan
o Objectives
o New targets and other actions to improve compliance
o What does the future look like?
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ECHA Forum’s joint initiative with Accredited Stakeholder Organisations on improving the quality of SDSs
- Background: Why the initiative
- Objective(s)
- Participation and methodology followed
- Report on the outcome
- Summary of most important findings
- Some recommendations and action points
- ASOs’ views on possible solutions
- Follow-up plan
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State of play with setting up minimum requirements for exposure scenarios: Useability and enforceability implications
- Why is this being considered? Which problems are expected to be solved with minimum requirements?
- What should minimum requirements cover? (content, format)
- How would that improve useability (illustrated with examples)
- How will that improve enforceability (illustrated with examples)
- By which means should minimum requirements be set?
- Which additional challenges could/will minimum requirements bring?
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Q&A
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Refreshments
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Local enforcement of chemical legislation in Sweden
- Legal background
- Enforcement in the municipality of Stockholm
- Towards a non-toxic Stockholm in 2030
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How UK will enforce after Brexit
- The legislative regime
- What has not changed
- What will change
Mike Potts
Principal Enforcement Officer, Chemicals Regulation Division, Health and Safety Executive, UK -
Why do poison centres need product data and what are their options in respect of risk detection?
- Poison centres: Giving advice on acute poisoning of humans. - hazard, risk and therapeutic recommendations
- Unexpected toxicity: When non-toxic ingredients become relevant for risk assessment
- How poison centres can help to improve product safety: They observe and document human exposures in real life.
- How Annex VIII may improve the capability of poison centres to detect unexpected hazards
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Plugging a compliance gap around Article 33 of REACH: The Scan4Chem App
- Communication obligation on SVHC in articles along the supply chain and towards the consumers
- AskREACH awareness raising campaign for article suppliers and consumers
- How can I be compliant?
- Scan4Chem: The easy way to implement the consumer's right to know - test the app!
Arno Biwer
Group Leader Environment Policies, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg -
Q&A
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Close of day one / Cocktail reception
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