EU-Workshop on Socio-Economic Analysis under REACH regarding authorisations
and restrictions“
12th & 13th March 2007,
at Bundespresseamt (Federal Press Office), Berlin
Day 1
Session chairs:
Klaus Günter Steinhäuser
Federal Environment Agency (UBA), (Germany) - morning
Sabine Gärtner,
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, (Germany) -
afternoon
09.00-09.30
Registration
09.30-09.45
Welcome and introduction
Astrid Klug, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry for
the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety, (Germany)
09.45-10.00
Introductory Presentation on SEA under REACH
Sebastian Gil, European Commission, DG Environment
REACH- Implementation Project
(RIP) 3.9: Technical guidance document on carrying out a socio-economic
analysis
10.00-10.20
Report on preliminary study - RIP 3.9-1
Meg Postle, Risk and Policy Analysts Ltd (RPA), (U.K.)
10.20-10.40
Report on the status of the subsequent project - RIP 3.9-2
Michael Sorensen, Entec UK Ltd., (U.K.)
10.40-11.00
Comment on the methodical
approach in RIP 3.9.-1:
Which existing and standardised methods could be resorted to for the realisation
of a SEA under REACH- and which core procedural rules would be necessary?
Carl Otto Gensch, Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), (Germany)
11.00-11.30
Questions and discussion
11.30 Coffee break
Use of SEA in other decision making contexts
12.00-12.20
Annex F of the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) on socio-economic considerations
Reiner Arndt, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety, (Germany)
12.20-12.40
SEA in risk-reduction in the Existing Substances
Regulation
Eliisa Irpola, Environment Institute (SYKE), (Finland)
12.40-13.00
Questions and discussion
13.00 Lunch break
SEA in national decision-making regarding
chemicals
14.20-14.40
A Swedish perspective
Asa Thors, Swedish
Chemicals Agency (KemI), (Sweden)
14.40-15.00
A U.K. perspective
John Roberts, Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), (U.K.)
15.00-15.30
Questions and discussion
15.30 Coffee break
16.00-17.30
Panel discussion: How can the existing findings on criteria for a SEA
be used under the new regime of REACH?
Chair: Meg Postle, Risk and Policy Analysts Ltd (RPA), (U.K.)
Sebastian Gil, European Commission, DG Environment
John Roberts, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), (U.K.)
Asa Thors, Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI), (Sweden)
Michael Sorensen, Entec UK Ltd., (U.K.)
17.30-17.45
Summary of results
Petra Greiner, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), (Germany)
17.45 Reception
19.00 Close of day 1
Day 2
Session chair:
Petra Greiner
Federal Environment Agency (UBA), (Germany)
SEA in the Industry
09.00-09.20
Industry perspective of SEA under REACH
René van Sloten, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic),
(Belgium)
09.20-09.40
Eco-efficiency analysis and SEEbalance
Peter Saling, BASF, (Germany)
09.40-10.00
Questions and discussion
10.00 Coffee break
The role of SEA in substitution
10.30-10.50
The SubChem project (Sustainable substitution of hazardous chemicals)
Lothar Lißner, Cooperation Centre Hamburg (Germany)
10.50-11.10
SEA and substitution - lessons from Regulation 793/73
Martin Frank Mogensen, Environmental Assessment Institute
(IMV), (Denmark)
11.10-11.30
Non-market values
Lars Drake, Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI), (Sweden)
11.30-12.00
Questions and
discussion
12.00-13.15
Panel discussion: What are the impacts SEA has on the decision
whether a substance is substituted?
Chair: Lars Drake, Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI), (Sweden)
René van Sloten, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), (Belgium)
Peter Saling, BASF, (Germany)
Lothar Lißner, Cooperation Centre Hamburg, (Germany)
Martin Frank Mogensen, Environmental Assessment Institute (IMV), (Denmark)
13.15-13.30
Concluding remarks
Klaus Günter Steinhäuser, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), (Germany)
13.30
Close of day 2