Programme

6 April 2000

Welcome and introduction
Chair: Hubert Steinkemper, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

9.00

Prof. Dr. Andreas Troge, President, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

9.10

Stefan Mappus, Deputy Minister, Ministry for the Environment and Transport, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

9.20

Herbert Aichinger, Head of Industrial Installations, Hazards and Biotechnology Unit, European Commission, DG Environment

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Expectations of various sides of IPPC and BAT

Chair: Dr. Christian Hey, Director of Policy Unit, European Environmental Bureau - EEB

9.30

Expectations of the chemical industry faced to the BREF process
Eddy Van Bouwel, Environmental & Compliance Assurance Manager, Exxon Mobil Chemical Europe, Inc., CEFIC

9.40

EUROMETAUX view on current BREF procedure
Javier Targhetta, Atlantic Copper, President, Association Européen des métaux - EUROMETAUX

9.50

The French point of view
Philippe Lucas, Head of bureau for industrial water pollution quarries, mineral and metallurgical industries, Ministry of spatial planning and the environment, France

10.00

Spanish experience with the BAT info exchange Maria Jesus Rodriguez de Sancho, Ministry of Environment, Spain

10.20

The IPPC Directive and BAT in a wider context

Neigel Haigh, Honorary Fellow, Institute for European Environmental Policy, Great Britain

10.30

Is the BREF process a success or a failure? - an NGO perspective
Dr. Joachim Lohse & Knut Sander, Ökopol - Institut für Ökologie und Politik GmbH

10.40

Questions and Discussion

11.10

Coffee / Tea

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The aims of the Sevilla process

Chair: Giuliana Gasparrini, Head of Division of Atmospheric Pollution and Risk, Ministry for the Environment, Italy

11.40

European innovation and exchange of information about BAT
Magnus Gislev, European Commission, DG Environment

12.00

The European IPPC Bureau: what is it, where is it, and what does it do?
Dr. Per Sorup, Head of Unit, Technologies for Sustainable Development, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

12.20

Questions and Discussion

11.10

Lunch

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Sevilla works - from concept to reality

Chair: Hans Herlitz, EUROFER delegated by UNICE

14.10

BAT Reference documents: what are they, what are they not?
Don Litten, Co-ordinator, European IPPC Bureau

14.30

BREF on the Production of Iron and Steel - conclusion on BAT
Harald Schönberger, Regional State Governmental Office Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, formerly EIPPCB

14.50

The BREF in the pulp and paper industry - BAT for an industry with a large variety of raw materials and products
Michael Suhr, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany, Formerly EIPPCB

15.10

BAT process selection and split views - illustrated by examples from the Cement and Lime and Chlor-Alkali BREFs
Petra Hagström, European IPPC Bureau

15.30

Questions and Discussion

16.00

Coffee / Tea

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Sevilla works - from concept to reality II

Chair: Dr. Peter Davids, President of the State Environment Agency, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

16.30

A BREF for the diverse sector of "Large Volume Organic Chemicals"
Alex Radway, European IPPC Bureau

16.50

Energy use and process integrated BAT measures - illustrated by examples from the Non-Ferrous Metals Industries BREF
Ludwig Finkeldei, European IPPC Bureau

17.10

Influence on smaller installations illustrated by the Tanneries BREF and the addressing of horizontal issues across industry sectors in the Storage BREF
Ineke Jansen, European IPPC Bureau

17.30

Questions and Discussion

19.30

Buffet reception at the "Neues Schloss" former residence of the Kings of Württemberg

Welcome by Stefan Mappus, Deputy Minister, Ministry for the Environment and Transport, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

hosted by the State of Baden-Württemberg

22.30

End of the first conference day

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7 April 2000

Approaches to implementation

Chair: Nathalie Vercruysse, Principal Administrator, European Commission, DG Enterprise

9.00

Welcome
Werner Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Germany

9.10

The UK approach to use the BREFs at national and installation level
Martin Quinn, Technical Guidance manager, Environmental Agency, Great Britain

9.25

The Dutch guideline based approach to introduce the BREFs
Lex de Jonge, Head of Department of Industry Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands

9.40

Practical use of BREF in permitting - Danish pilot project on the implementation of the IPPC project in Bulgaria
Jörgen Friis, Head of Air Pollution Control Group, county of Funen, Denmark
Angel Kostov, Senior Expert, Ministry of Environment and Water Protection, Bulgaria

9.55

Integrated assessment on a local level
Dr. Barbara Reiter, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Youth and Family, Austria

10.10

Questions and Discussion

10.40

Coffee / Tea

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Approaches to implementation II

Chair: Dr. Albrecht Rittmann, Head of Department "Industry and Trade", Ministry for the Environment and Transport, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

11.10

The introduction of integrated permitting to Ireland
Dr. Ken Macken, Regional Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland

11.25

The German approach to use the BREFs at the national level
Dr. Michael Lange, Head of Division, Processes and Produckts - Industry, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

11.40

Swedish experience of integrated permit procedures
Erik Nyström, Principal Technical Officer, Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden

11.55

Questions and Discussion

12.25

Panel discussion

Chair: Dr. Gernard Feldhaus, former Director General, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Herbert Aichinger, Head of Industrial Installations, Hazards and Biotechnology Unit, European Commission, DG Environment

Dr. Christian Hey, Director of Policy Unit, European Environmental Bureau - EEB

Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Prof. Werner Pollmann, vice President, Chief Environmental Officer, Research, Material, Production, Daimler-Chrysler, Stuttgart, Germany

Dr. Per Sorup, Head of Unit, Technologies for Sustainable Development, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

13.30

Lunch

End of the conference

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