Project Enabling eco-innovations for a circular economy Waste management and Circular Economy Project Make it Work & IMPEL Conference Making the Circular Economy work Connecting policy, law and practice 20-21 March 2019 ISPRA Office, Rome, Italy DRAFT PROGRAMME v2019-02-15 1
Title and aims of the conference The title of the conference refers to the challenging task of putting the concept of Circular Economy into practice. A key condition for making the Circular Economy work is to better connect policy, law and regulation on the ground. Given this context, we considered that the conference could have the following aims: Contributing to the dialogue between regulators, policy makers, law makers, and businesses on making the Circular Economy work in practice, with a focus on enabling circular innovations within EU environmental law. Improving the understanding of the roles and perspectives of regulators, policy makers, law makers and businesses and what is needed to bridge the gap between policy, law and practice. Improving the understanding on how regulators can support the transition to the Circular Economy, protect the environment, assure compliance with environmental law and prevent environmental crime. Raising awareness on the need to empower regulators and identifying what actions regulators can take to perform their role more effectively. Sharing and exchanging of good regulatory practices, experiences, ideas and initiatives. Improving the understanding of the barriers and opportunities in current and future EU environmental law. Providing information to the participants on relevant EU policy and legislative developments. Launching and presenting the MiW and IMPEL guidance as a tool to support regulators and discussing how to organise its further uptake. Exploring other future actions relevant to enabling circular innovations and how in particular MS initiatives and networks can further contribute in this respect. The programme was drafted with these aims in mind. Throughout the conference programme the MiW and IMPEL guidance can be used to trigger and kick off discussions. Apart from the plenary session where the guidance is launched and presented (session 5) and the suggested Master class (session 19) the guidance can help structure many of the other working sessions (10-15 and 18). At the conference the MiW and IMPEL guidance on enabling circular innovations is going to be launched. This guidance aims to support regulators in enabling circular innovations, in particular by helping them: to understand the opportunities and barriers in EU environmental law; to identify how they can organise themselves more effectively; to determine the support they need from the policy and law makers; to become more sensitive to the needs and concerns of innovative businesses. Circular innovations in this guidance are innovations at production and recycling facilities (industrial installations) promoting: resource efficiency, using less primary raw materials; prevention of waste, reducing the production of waste; the use of production residues as secondary raw materials (by-products); the recovery of materials from waste (recycling) and the use of these materials as secondary raw materials (end-of-waste). 2
Conference participants We are seeking participation by management and senior staff of permitting and inspection authorities in the MS (regulators), senior policy makers and law makers at ministries in the MS, representatives of innovative businesses, managers and senior experts at the Commission, representatives from MiW, IMPEL and NEPA, representatives of NGO s and other networks as Europol and EU Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE). 3
Wednesday 20 March 2019 Registration 09:00 09:30 Kick off 09:30 10:10 1. Opening by Chair of the Conference Mr John Seager 09:30 09:50 2. Welcome and presentation by Host, ISPRA 09:50 10:05 3. Key note speech 10:05 10:15 Enabling circular innovations in practice key challenges, role of MiW-IMPEL guidance 10:15 11:15 4. Presentation of the MiW - IMPEL Guidance Mr Jan Teekens (project leader MiW, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands) and Mr Romano Ruggeri (project leader IMPEL Waste management and circular economy project, ARPA Sardegna, Italy) 10:15 10:55 5. Views from academic 10:55 11:15 Coffee 11:15 11:30 6. Views from the European Commission, Mr. Jorge Diaz Del Castillo, DG Environment Unit B3 - Waste Management & Secondary Materials 11:30 12:00 7. Interactive on-line poll 12:00-12.15 8. Panel discussion between academic, MS regulators, policy- and law-makers, Commission, businesses, NGOs 9. Official launch of the guidance: presenting the guidance to the Chair of IMPEL, Professor Dimitris Dermatas 12:15 12:45 12:45-13:00 Lunch 13:00 14:00 Circular innovations Actors (sessions will start with pitch to kick of discussion) 14.00 15:00 10. Regulatory strategies how to facilitate circular innovations (regulators) 11. Supporting regulators - the importance of joined-up thinking (policy makers) 12. End-of-waste and by-products Coffee 15:00 15:30 Circular innovations Themes (sessions will start with pitch to kick of discussion) 15.30 16:30 13. Carrying through circular innovations lessons learned (businesses) 14. IED and circular economy (to be confirmed) 15. New environmental crime linked to circular economy Representative from Europol (to be confirmed) 16. Facilitating circular innovations for plastics Making the Circular Economy work PLENARY SESSION Wrap up and conclusions of the parallel sessions 16.30 17:30 Social Dinner From 19:30 4
Thursday 21 March 2019 Conclusions of previous day: Chair of the Conference Mr John Seager 09:00 09:30 Actual trends and developments - presentation and plenary discussion 09:30 10:45 17. Transposition and implementation of the new Waste Framework Directive Ms Sascha Grievink (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands) 09:30 10:00 18. Plenary discussion 10:20 10:45 Coffee 10:45 11:00 The role of EU and MS initiatives and networks - presentations and panel discussion 19. Further development of MiW-IMPEL guidance in 2019, End-of-Waste database, peer2peer, training programme Mr Romano Ruggeri (project leader IMPEL Waste management and circular economy project, ARPA Sardegna, Italy) 11:00-11:30 20. Activities of other MS Networks and EU initiatives (EU Circular Economy Platform) 11.30 12.00 21. Panel discussion between EU and MS policy makers, regulators, businesses 12.00 12.30 22. Conference conclusions and closure of main conference programme, Chair of the 12.30 12.45 Conference Mr John Seager Lunch 12:45 14:00 Sharing knowledge 14:00 15:30 23. Master class enabling circular innovations - applying the MiW-IMPEL Guidance in practice 24. Serious game Smart regulation for Green Growth Closure 15:30-15.45 5