Programme
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**Note: timings are in CEST**
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Moderator: Aidan Turnbull, director, BOMcheck, UK
- Session 4: Chemicals in use: knowing what chemicals are in your products and how to manage any risks
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Introduction
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International Materials Data Systems (IMDS) and the substances of concern in products (Scip) database – from theory to reality: an automotive industry case study, part 1
Ralph Schimitzek
DFE-Coordinator – Products specific environmental protection, Robert Bosch GmbH / Automotive Electronics -
International Materials Data Systems (IMDS) and Scip database – From theory to reality: An automotive industry case study, part 2
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Traceability of chemicals in products: From the ‘need to know’ of companies to the ‘right to know’ of consumers
- The citizen’s ‘right to know’ under EU law
- Authorities’ obligation to know
- Companies’ ‘need to know’
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The Scip data bringing transparency on hazardous substances through the supply chain
- From prototype to version 1
- Submitting data to Scip
- A look at data dissemination
- Getting prepared
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Q&A with panel discussion: Knowing what chemicals are in your products and managing the risks
- The impact of Scip – Echa’s database for substances of very high concern (SVHCs) in articles
- Is Echa overstepping its legal mandate in implementing the Scip database?
- How risk assessment is likely to evolve
- Potential impact on businesses
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Networking and break
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ReachLaw sponsor workshop: Key drivers for the EU’s industrial transformation
- Key drivers for the EU’s industrial transformation – overview
- Circular business strategies
- Conclusions
- Session 5: Waste and recycling
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The waste and chemicals interface, the solution for a more toxic free and circular society
- How to transform waste into resources to boost circular value chains into a value;
- Scip database should increase substitution, but will it support recycling?
- Why improving the interface between chemicals, waste & product legislation is critical to the success of the Circular Economy;
- How a waste classification based on risk assessment, not only hazards, is an enabler of circular value chains
Christer Forsgren
Responsible for Research and Development at Stena Recycling Chair EuRIC Waste & Chemicals Task Force, Stena Recycling / EuRIC -
What information do waste operators need to deal with substances of concern?
- Current information gaps
- Future opportunities from better information flows
- Examples of the effects on waste operators of good and bad information
- How to keep secondary materials cycles clean and the benefits that will bring
Mike Hale
Consultant, European Union for the Responsible Incineration and Treatment of Special Waste (Eurits), UK -
EU Commission study exploring approaches to communicating on chemicals of concern with the waste sector – chemicals/products/waste interface
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From waste to non-waste status - how to deal with the chemical product-waste interface
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Designing for circularity, in the context of a green recovery
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Q&A and final panel discussion
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Closing remarks
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Close of conference
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