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EEB Conference - “Mercury-containing lamps under the spotlight”

Friday 27 June 2008
Brussels, Belgium
VENUE: Cenelec, 35 Rue de Stassartstraat , B-1050
, Brussels, Belgium (how to reach the venue, Brussels Metro map)

   For General Public:     Invitation,     Registration form,
   For NGOs:                      NGO Invitation, NGO Registration form

The conference is open to the public and will take place in English.

Draft agenda (as per 016/06/2008)

Time schedule

Title of presentation

Speakers

8.30

Registration

 

9.00

Welcome

EEB  and Chair- Mr. Stefan Scheuer

9.10

Mercury containing lamps – EU Overview

Mr. Peter Maxson, Director, Concorde East/West sprl

9.30

Mercury content in lamps

Ms Alicia Culver, Green Purchasing Institute

9.50

EU approach – current state of play (EuP, RoHS, Mercury Strategy)

Mr. Gernot Schnabl, DG ENV European Commission

10.10

Industry position

Mr. Gerald Strickland, Secretary General , European Lamp Companies Federation

10.30

NGOs position

Mrs. Elena Lymberidi-Settimo, Project Coordinator, Zero Mercury Campaign, EEB/ZMWG

11.00

Coffee break

 

11.30

Panel discussion

 

 

 

11.35

The future of mercury-containing lamps

Lamp manufacturers

Philips presentation 

 

 

Mr.Frank Altena, Philips

11.45

 Sylvania Europe presentation

Mr. Rudy Geens, Havells-Sylvania Europe

11.55

 GE presentation

Mr. Laszlo Balazs, General Electric

12.05

 

Mr. Wolfgang Gregor, Chief Sustainability Officer, OSRAM. 

12.15

 Mercury containing lamps – a view from the Lighting Design Community

Mr. Kevan Shaw, Director for Sustainability, Professional Lighting Designers’ Association

12.20

Mercury in special lamps/ mercury-free lamps

Ms Alicia Culver, Green Purchasing Institute 

 

Discussion with all morning speakers

 

13.00

Lunch Break

 

 

14.30

EU Lamp Collection,  infrastructure, transport and best practices in the EU – Overview   

WEEE-Forum's  key figures on waste lighting equipment 

 Mr. Rob Koppejan, ELC - Philips

Mr. Pascal Leroy, Secretary General, WEEE Forum

14.50

Best practices in Member States collection schemes


Polish collection experiences




Mr.
Zdzisław Janeta, Director of Lamp department, ElektroEko, Poland 

15.10

 Swedish collection experiences

Mr. Jan-Olof Eriksson, Managing Director, El-Kretsen, Sweden

15.30

International examples of retail collection of FLs- and breakage

Mr. Michael Bender , Director MPP/ZMWG

15.50

NGO position on collection 

Ms. Nathalie Cliquot, Policy Officer Waste, EEB

16.10

Q & A with speakers on collection practices…

 

16.30

Summary of the day

Chair

16.45

End of conference

 

 

Participants' list

Conference Report

 


     
Zero Marcury Campaign 2005 Contact: mercury@eeb.org
The EEB gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the European Commission for this activity