Biocides Europe 2019

2019 conference highlights

Chemical Watch’s Biocides Europe 2019 conference took place on 3-4 December in Vienna, and welcomed over 230 professionals from across Europe to hear the latest advice and guidance on Europe’s Biocidal Products Regulation and other developments affecting the biocides industry.

The one-day event welcomed 34 speakers from leading organisations including the European Commission, Echa, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Knoell, Brenntag and the Swedish Water and Waste Water Association. 

Key topics that were covered include:

• BPR procedures;
• regulatory issues for authorisation/approval related processes;
• status ED assessments for biocides;
• the impact and challenges of the BPR;
• biocides topics overlapping with other legislation;
• enforcement of biocides;
• sustainability of biocides and circular economy; and,
• testing and modelling.

View the full 2019 programme here

Speakers

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News articles from the conference:

Third BPR enforcement project to target online sales
The third enforcement project under the biocidal products Regulation (BPR) will focus on online sales and advertising of biocidal products. Find out more

Echa to develop guidance on biocides risks to bees
The European Commission formally requested Echa on 2 December, to develop a guidance document on assessing the risk to bees and other arthropod pollinators from the use of biocides. Find out more

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Tweets from the event:

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- Silver leaching from sportswearhttps://t.co/UBEuAHZu1s#chemicalwatch @eureau @SvensktVatten @EU_ENV @bjornma

— Anders Finnson (@AndersFinnson) December 4, 2019

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- "Non efficacious biocides are not sustainable"
- "As little as possible - as much as necessary"
Ulrike Frank at Swedish Chem. Agency#chemicalwatch @eureau @SvensktVatten @EU_ENV @bjornma

— Anders Finnson (@AndersFinnson) December 4, 2019

The Chair of the @eureau #WFD group @AndersFinnson will speak today at the @chemicalwatch conference, making clear that source control measures are effective and essential to protect our #water #heritage. Plus they are in line with the  EU Treaties! How cool is that? #watermatters https://t.co/Tn9jSJdd2r

— CarlaChr (@CarlaChr) December 4, 2019

Future events from Chemical Watch

If you enjoyed the Biocides Europe conference, then please take a look at our upcoming events and ongoing courses which you may also be interested in:

• Food Contact Regulations Europe 2020
  11-12 February, Brussels – Book here
  
• Risk Assessment for Biocides 
  12-13 February, Mainz – Book here
• Guidance for Identifying Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 
  13 February, Mainz – Book here
• Food Contact Regulations USA 2020
  9-10 March, Washington, DC – Book here
  
• Biocides Efficacy 
  10 March, Europe – Book here
• Biocidal Product Families 
  11 March, Europe – Book here
• Global Business Summit Europe 2020 
  25-26 March, Amsterdam – Book here
• Understanding the BPR 
  eLearning – Book here

For our full listing of upcoming events, including conferences, training courses, webinars and eLearning courses have a look at our dedicated events website.