Archive for October, 2007

COMMON FORUM NEWS NR. 30 report COMMON FORUM meeting in Stockholm 12 September 2007 and NICOLE invitation

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Dear All,
Some news again from COMMON FORUM

1] Our last meeting in Stockholm 12 September 2007
This meeting followed the succesfull ICCL meeting were we met colleagues from non EU countries and had interesting discussions which were also relevant for current developments in the contaminated land field in EU. The reports of the ICCL meeting will be published by our Finnish colleagues which were the secretariat of this meeting. During the COMON FORUM part we could welcome new members from Romania and Portugal and maybe Estonia.
The COMMON FORUM meeting which was almost entirely devoted to the proposals for a EU Soil Framework Directive. Please find the report of the meeting attached

2] Invitation to attend the NICOLE Network Meeting on 14-16 November 2007 in Brussels
The subject of this meeting will be: “Using baselines in liability management; what do upcoming Directives require from us?”
The meeting is hosted Solvay S.A., Rue de Ransbeek 310, B-1120 Brussels, Belgium. Please find the invitation letter, programme and meeting information attached

3] EUGRIS news:
Please find EUGRIS updates for August and September attached

4] Next COMMON FORUM meetings
Our next meeting will be in The Hague in the Netherlands, most probably in februari 2008. A second meeting is planned in the second half of 2008 probably in France, during the French EU presidency. In between we could also meet during the free wednesday afternoon during  the CONSOIL conference in in Milano in june 2008.   I will inform you as soon as I have more information about the next meeting in the Netherlands

ATTACHMENTS:
a) Common Forum
- Stockholm meeting report: stockmeetingreport.doc
b)Eugris
eugris-2007-8-24.doc
eugris-2007-9-25.doc
c)Nicole
-preliminary workshop program: preliminary-program.pdf