Programme
**Note: timings are in CEST**
Moderator: Leigh Stringer, Global Business Editor, Chemical Watch
Welcome and introduction
Keynote Address: The European Commission's Green Deal - a regulator’s perspective
Keynote Address: The European Commission's Green Deal - an industry perspective
Q&A for keynote speakers
Session 1: Developing sustainable chemicals management strategies
Clariant’s progressive chemicals management strategy for safer and more sustainable solutions
Why the most progressive businesses today will be the most successful tomorrow
Q&A with panel discussion
What are the best ways of measuring chemical companies' progress on the road to sustainable chemicals management?
Networking and break
Session 2: Sourcing materials: The bedrock of your sustainable chemicals management strategy
Circular economy: Ensuring resource efficiency by keeping substances in circulation - features insights from a Danish project
Alternatives assessment in practice: trivalent chromium coated steel (TCCT) - the regulatory context as support?
The changing role of procurement in ensuring a sustainable value chain
Q&A with panel discussion
Networking and break
Veeva sponsor workshop: End-to-End Regulatory Transparency - Compliance monitoring with a single source of truth
Transparency is key to meet the increasing demands of sustainability. Join our workshop and learn how you can easily monitor the status of raw materials, manufacturing details and regulatory compliance of your products.
Session 3: Manufacturing and production
Human rights: due diligence, protection for the most vulnerable
Member state perspective: are your production/manufacturing practices up to scratch?
- Overview of how enforcement works at national and EU level
- Consequences, penalties and business impacts for non-compliance and late compliance in the supply chain
- Enforcement of exposure scenarios and (extended) safety data sheets – results and findings of REACH-En-FORCE projects
Ensuring best practice and latest knowledge reach suppliers' factory floors
Lessons from ZDHC
Q&A with final panel discussion
Close of Day One