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Breakfast session with pastries hosted in The Chemical Watch demo area, The Stoclet Room. - Session 4: Enforcement issues around chemicals legislation overlapping with REACH
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Moderator:
Uta Jensen-Korte
Former Director General, European Association of Chemical Distributors (Fecc), Germany -
Enforcement of chemicals regulations/legislation overlapping with REACH: A Forum perspective
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How REACH can support practical enforcement of OSH in the workplace
- OSH legislation overview
- SDS and risk assessment
- Case studies
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Two of KEMI's recent enforcement projects
- Enforcement of REACH and biocide treated articles in collaboration with municipalities
- Nordic enforcement project on e-commerce
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Q&A
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Refreshments
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Enforcement of Food Contact Materials Regulation
Christophe Goldbeck
Head of Department Consumer Goods, Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office (CVUA-MEL), Germany -
When non-compliance or non-conformities are identified, what happens next? Real-world examples of the legal issues and practical realities around dealing with non-compliance under RoHS or concerns under GPSD
- What steps do you take when you discover non-compliance?
- Which corrective actions are most appropriate?
- Judgement calls under pressure: what are the risks for getting it wrong?
- How do you deal with the authorities?
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Panel on enforcement options without specific limit values or limit values originating from different legislation with Q&A
Christophe Goldbeck
Head of Department Consumer Goods, Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office (CVUA-MEL), Germany
Evelyn Tjoe Nij
Industrial Hygiene manager – REACH Exposure Scenario Expert, Dow Benelux (BV), The Netherlands -
Lunch
- Session 5: Enforcement for trade and commerce : Regulatory compliance in e-commerce, perspectives on challenges and changes
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Moderator:
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EU Commission perspective on working with customs authorities
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Compliance for online commerce: Amazon’s development of machine learning to detect hazardous chemical products and drive downstream system/behavior
- Machine Learning models as a scalable, reliable and consistent method to identify hazardous chemicals
- Identification to enable collecting and capturing data on hazardous chemicals
- Data critical to drive safe and compliant storage/waste actions and support our product safety programs, to ensure the safety of our customers and employees
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The work of the customs authority enforcing chemicals legislation in Poland
- Role of customs authorities in enforcement of restrictions and prohibitions imposed on trade with third countries, referring in particular to chemical legislation
- Measures that customs authorities can take to enforce chemical legislation
- Taking into account e-commerce
- Co-operation with relevant competent authorities
- Examples of control actions related to the REACH requirements of Annex XVII
Anna Kobylecka
Chief Specialist, Non-tariff Measures and Single Window Unit, Customs Department, Ministry of Finance, Poland -
Q&A
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Refreshments
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Ongoing competent authority collaboration with customs in the UK
Mike Potts
Principal Enforcement Officer, Chemicals Regulation Division, Health and Safety Executive, UK -
Experiences with enforcing e-commerce and collaboration with customs authorities in Germany
Sibylle Wursthorn
Senior Expert (Referent) and Inspector in the Unit Chemical and Product Safety, Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy, Germany -
Panel on online sales with Q&A
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Close of summit
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