Archive for April, 2007

COMMON FORUM NEWS NR. 23 & 24 Agenda and meeting information for Stuttgart 24&25 April - other news

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Dear All,
Please find the meeting agenda CF agenda Stuttgart and participants list Participants for the COMMON FORUM meeting in Stuttgart. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO BRING the COMMON FORUM discussion paper Discussion paper . Also find a copy of EUGRIS news mentionning what’s new on this website for your informationEUGRIS NEWS.

1] TRAVEL
You can reach the hotel by lines S1, S2, S3 to BAD CANNSTATT and line U2 to KURSAAL. I do hope to meet you all at the get together in the Wine cellar located a 100 meter from the hotel Mecure Bad Canstatt. We can meet in the lobby of this hotel at 19.00 on 23/04 to walk this short distance together.
HOTEL ADDRESS:
Mercure Hotel Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt
Teinacher Strasse 20
BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG
70372 STUTTGART
GERMANY
Tel : (+49)711/95400
Fax : (+49)711/9540630
E-mail : H1704@accor.com

2] EUGRIS
Paul Bardos informed us that visitors to EUGRIS are continuing to rise, in March EUGRIS had 44,937 visits and delivered 11.68 Gigabytes of data to users. EUGRIS.info now has:

o >80 general technical information zones related to soil and water
o 6 country contaminated land and water management information zones
o 2675 resources (document, software, hardware and web site listings)
o 51 funding programmes listings
o 218 R&D project listings
o 301 organisations listings
o 221 current news items as well as conference / training listings
o A glossary of 505 terms, often linked to national definitions and translations

EUGRIS has 2068 registered users from all over the world and many many more casual visitors.

COMMON FORUM NEWS NR. 22 Draft agenda for COMMON FORUM 24 & 25 April 2007 and draft discussion paper on SFD

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Dear All,
As our next meeting is approaching please find the outline of the agenda and some other important news below

1] A COMMON FORUM paper on the SFD:
The COMMON FORUM agenda committee proposed to prepare a document with short statements about the contaminated land part of the proposed Soil Framework Directive (SFD). The document is not intended to become a common position paper, but is intended to help those of us who have to prepare national positions to choose the best arguments to suit their needs and to be aware of arguments that may be used by others. Please find the first draft of this paper attached SFDCOMFOR.doc . You are kindly invited to add your own statements. You may add them to the existing text. If you do so before APRIL 11 can produce a second and better draft for the Stuttgart meeting, 24 & 25 April.

2] DRAFT AGENDA FOR STUTTGART:
Monday 23 April: 19.00 : Informal get together, offered by the German Environment Ministry

Tuesday 14 April 10.00 : Start of the meeting in the Hotel Mercure Stuttgart Bad Cannstat.

10.00 - 11.00: Welcome and “Tour de Table”.
In the Tour the Table each participant has maximum 2 minutes introducing yourself and making a short statement about her/his expectations and experiences in COMMON FORUM your remarks will be used to prepare a document about the future of COMMON FORUM, to be discussed in the next meeting in September
11.00 -11.20: Presentation by Jean-Luc Perrin on the new French policy for contaminated land management
11.20 -11.40 : Coffee break
11.40- 12.10 : The waste framework directive and contaminated soil ( excavated & unexcavated).
This discussion will be introduced by Victor Dries. If necessary we can decide to take action as COMMON FORUM and try to influence this EU discussion in the right direction.
12.10 -12.30 : Introduction to the afternoon group discussions about contaminated land in the proposed SFD.
The goal is to produce a “catalogue of statements”, not a position paper. A draft paper for this discussion is attached to this mail (SFDCOMFOR.doc)
12.30- 13.30 Lunch
13.30- 15.30 Group discussions
15.30- 16.00 Tea Break
16.00- 16.45 Reports of the groups
16.45 -17.00 Plenary conclusions
17.30 -17.30 Any other business, next meetings, closure of the meeting

19.30 Welcome reception REVIT & CABERNET by Lord Mayor of Stuttgart ( all COMMON FORUM delegates are invited)

Wednesday 25 April 14.00: Session COMMON FORUM Urban Soil Initiative at the REVIT & CABERNET conference  see  programme,final announcement.pdf . COMMON FORUM members which did not register and payed a fee for the conference are allowed to attend this session only (without fee) as special REVIT & CABERNET guests.

3] INVITATION FOR A NICOLE WORKSHOP ON REDEVELOPMENT OF SITES 13-15 June in The Netherlands.
Please find the invitation invitation.doc a preliminary program Program Nicole and a registration form Registration Nicole attached. This workshop may nicely complement the REVIT &CABERNET conference.

COMMON FORUM NEWS NR. 21 Hotel Booking for COMMON FORUM 24 & 25 April 2007 and for CABERNET/ REVIT 25-27 April.

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Dear All,

Please allow me to remind you to make your hotel reservations and registration for the CABERNET/ REVIT conference ( if you want to attend this).
1] HOTEL RESERVATION
The prebooking of the rooms at the the Hotel Mercure Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt, (see www.mercure.com) expires on 21/03/07.
IMPORTANT: ALL hotel bookings should be made via the Conference Secretary Beate Deckert. ( NOT via me). The adress of Beate is:

Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Amt für Stadtplanung und Stadterneuerung
61-8.1
Beate Deckert
Eberhardstraße 10
70173 Stuttgart
Telefon: 0711 216-3258
Fax: eFax 0711 216953258
E-Mail: Beate.Deckert

2] REGISTRATION FOR THE CABERNET REVIT CONFERENCE
Registration is ONLY required if you want to attend one or more days of the CABERNET/ REVIT conference. If you want to attend the COMMON FORUM SESSSION ONLY (wednesday 25 afternoon) NO registration is required. You will be considered as special guests of the conference organisers for that session (only).

3] COMMON FORUM AGENDA
The agenda is as suggested in COMMON FORUM News nr 20, I will send a more detailed draft agenda next week

4] NEW COMMON FORUM MEMBER
To complete the Belgian delegation - you may remember that there are three regions in Belgium. Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels region- we welcome Jean-Pierre Janssens (jpj@ibgebim.be) from the Brussels region to the COMMON FORUM

5] EUGRIS
There is some progress in the work to achieve COMMON FORUM presence on the EUGRIS website. There is a COMMON FORUM info bank in English and a German which already contains many documents in a nice searchable stucture. Please consider adding interesting material. Weblink: http://www.commonforum.eugris.info/