Programme
Coffee and Registration
Welcome and introduction
SESSION 1: Overviews from the main stakeholders
ECHA updates
Member State overview
Review programme extension - implications for innovation, sustainability and industry
- Arxada AG
- BPR implementation to date
- Review programme extension and upcoming changes
- Implications for innovation, sustainability and industry
Q&A
Refreshment Break
SESSION 2A: Impacts of the review programme extension - data protection issues
Importance of data protection for the generation of new scientific knowledge
- Under the BPR, responsibility for developing scientific data lies with industry
- Knowledge and control have increased exponentially, while guaranteeing fairness between players
- Article 95(5) BPR on the expiry of data protection for substances still in the review programme destroys this dynamic
- Case study of an active substance in the review programme showing how this creates unfair market conditions
Legal update on data protection issues
Q&A
Lunch and networking
SESSION 2B: Impacts of the review programme extension - the evaluation process
Experiences with the over conservative evaluation process
How are contact research organisations (CROs) preparing for the wave of requests likely to result from the June 2024 deadline?
Q&A
SESSION 3: Other recent developments in the European biocides sector
Annual report tracking trends in the Belgian biocides market
Kristof Claes, Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Belgium
New developments in ED assessment from an eCA perspective
First experiences with socio-economic analysis of alternatives under the BPR
Alexandra Bocquillon, Account Director, EPPA
Q&A
Refreshment break
SPC integration into IUCLID
Individual Q&A
Networking drinks reception
Join us for relaxed networking, drinks and appetisers with our speakers and attendees
Close of day one