Seminar Programme

10.00   Registration & Refreshment

10.25   Chairman's Introduction, Chris Howick (INEOS Chlorvinyls) Chairman BPF Product Safety Committee

Walter Claes, Director Health, Safety and Environment, EuPC

10.30   REACH - Five Year Review

• Progress to date
• Registration Update: next deadline 2013
• The future for polymers - a potential registration regime?

11.00   Supply chain communication for plastics processors

• How pro-active should you be: Issuing / Responding to Questionnaires 
• Avoid de-selection
• Dissemination of information: Application of Art.119
• ECHA Website: Guidance updates

11.30  Morning Coffee

11.45   Managing your SVHC Obligations

• The candidate list & substances of very high concern
• Notification & Information Obligations
• Substances in Articles: new Downstream User Obligations
• Receiving Extended Safety Data Sheets: how to deal with exposure scenarios
• Authorisation & Restrictions

12.30   Enforcement & Penalisation: REACH Inspections

13.00   Lunch

14.00  Focus on Classification & Labelling

• REACH & CLP - how they fit together
• C&L Inventory

14.45   Tea & Coffee

15.00  Recycling and REACH

• RRIC and Legacy Additives
• SDS-R: Safety Data Sheets for Recyclers

15.30 Round up & Close

Speaker Biographies
		Walter Claes, Director Health, Safety and Environment, EuPC Walter Claes studied Economics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Business Admin-istration at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He worked for Solvay for 35 years, first in sales- and marketing management then as a company manager for chemicals and plastics processing. He held General Management positions in several European countries and at the Brussels headquarters. In 2002, Mr. Claes was seconded to EuPC, the European Plastics Converters Association and has been focussing on EU Environmental Policy.
		Chris Howick, REACH Manager, INEOS Chlorvinyls Dr Chris Howick is a graduate of the City University, London, where he earned a BSc degree in Chemistry and also a graduate of Nottingham University, England, where he obtained a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry. Chris’ prior experience includes 5 years with ICI where he worked firstly on the development of low migration plasticisers for PVC and then in a technical service role. After ICI he joined European Vinyls Corporation (EVC) and worked on applications development and technical service in the plastisols market. He has had various roles in technical service, technical marketing and regulatory affairs which he continued when EVC became INEOS Vinyls. This included membership of Plastics Europe’s Food Contact Committee and the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Product Safety Committee. Chris became the Product Stewardship Manager for INEOS Chlorvinyls in December 2006 and is responsible for the group’s REACH activities, although he continues his regulatory responsibilities for PVC resins. He became chair of the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers REACH committee in 2007 and this developed into the consortium for the registration of Vinyl Chloride Monomer which was submitted to the European Chemicals Agency in 2010. In 2008 he was also elected chair of the BPF Product safety Committee. Chris is a regular presenter at conferences, particularly those involving PVC or polymer regulations. Chris is a fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry, a fellow of the UK’s Institute of Materials and a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist. He became a chartered environmentalist (C Env) in 2009.