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PROGRAMME 2013

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Tuesday 18 June 2013

   
8.00 - 9.15
Registration for HCF and coffee
   
9.15

Opening Ceremony
 
 Jussi Pajunen, Chairman of HCF Advisory Board, Mayor of Helsinki
  Geert Dancet, Executive Director, ECHA
  Bjørn Hansen, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Environment
   
10.00

Networking break
   
10.20
 Panel 1: 2020 Goals and the Sound International Management of Chemicals
  Will we reach these goals? What is our starting point? How will regional programmes and international efforts contribute?

Moderator: Jake Sandersson, Manager, Environment Canada
  Panelists:
  
  • Bjørn Hansen, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Environment
  
  • Dr. Martin Kayser, ICCAs´ Global Product Strategy, BASF AG
  
  • Kaj Madsen, Senior Program Officer, UNEP
  
  • Baskut Tuncak, Staff Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law, CIEL / USA
   
12.00

Lunch
   
13.30
 Panel 2: Chemicals in Products
  Do our chemicals safety regimes pay sufficient attention to the safety of (imported) products, given the regulatory focus on individual substances and the chemicals mixtures? How can we best address substances in articles from a regulatory and industry perspective?

Moderator: Nina Cromnier, Director General, Swedish Chemicals Agency
  Panelists:
  
  • Dr. Erwin Annys, Director REACH/ Chemicals Policy, CEFIC
  
  • Wendy Cleland-Hamnett, Director/Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, EPA, USA
  
  • Sylvia Maurer, Senior Policy Officer for Safety and Environment, BEUC
  
  • Prof. Christina Ruden, Professor in Regulatory toxicology and ecotoxicology, Stockholm University
  
  • Christian Wetterberg, Director, Governmental Affairs, LEGO Group
   
15.00

Coffee break
   
15.20
 Panel 3: The Regulation of Nano-Materials
  The Chemicals are increasingly produced and used in nano- form. Do our current regulatory regimes suffice to ensure the safety of human health as well as of our environment, or should nano-materials be regulated by specific chemicals regulations?

Moderator: Rob Visser, Former Deputy-Director, OECD
  Panelists:
  
  • David Azoulay, Managing Attorney, CIEL/ Switzerland
  
  • Dr. Peter Kearns, Principal Administrator, OECD
  
  • Otto Linher, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry
  
  • Dr. Rudolf Weinand, Vice-President, Product Safety Inorganic Materials, EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG
   
19.30
 Transportation from the hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre
   
20.00



Dinner Hosted by the City of Helsinki at the Helsinki City Hall
23.00
 Transportation to the hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre
   

Wednesday 19 June 2013

9.00
 Panel 4: Listing Chemicals of Concern
  As regulators worldwide draw up their various lists, are they targeting identical or similar substances? What are the divergences and gaps and what is causing them? What is their regulatory impact, and how do markets react?

Moderator: Andreas Herdina, Director of Cooperation, ECHA
  Panelists:
  
  • Jack de Bruijn, Director of Risk Management, ECHA
  
  • Eeva Leinala, Senior Manager, Health Canada
  
  • Yunbo Shi, Managing Director, Chemical Inspection and Regulation Service Ltd, CIRS/ Ireland
  
  • Michael Walls, Vice President, American Chemistry Council, USA
   
10.30

Coffee break
   
10.50
 Panel 5: Combination Effects
  Do rapidly evolving scientific and computational methods enable improved assessment of the impact of cumulative exposure? How to transfer scientific knowledge into regulatory action?          

Moderator: Derek Knight, Senior Scientific Advisor, ECHA
  Panelists:
  
  • Prof. Thomas Backhaus, Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
  
  • Dr. Jean-Lou Dorne, Toxicologist, European Food Safety Authority, EFSA
  
  • Rikke Donchil Holmberg, Senior Advisor, Danish Ministry of Environment
  
  • Mikael Karlsson, President, European Environmental Bureau, EEB
   
12.30

Closing
  Jukka Malm, Director of Regulatory Affairs, ECHA
   
12:45
 Lunch
   
14.15
 Transportation to the Offsite Session
   
15.00
 Offsite Session: Visit to Neste Oil (max. 50 participants)
  Neste Oil is a refining and marketing company, with a production focus on premium-quality, lower-emission traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel.
We take a trip to company´s main site at Porvoo, 40 minutes from Helsinki. The visit includes site tour and an introduction to Neste Oil solutions for renewable traffic fuels. www.nesteoil.com
    
17.45
 Transportation from Offsite Session arrives to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport
   
18.00
 Transportation from Offsite Session arrives to the hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre