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Common Forum News Letter nr. 43 - May, 18th 2010 |
by Dr. D. Darmendrail |
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Summary
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Dear Colleagues,
Our future meetings will be held back to back important european events:
- in July, in Trieste (Italy), with the NICOLE - CF Joint Workshop on opportunities, challenges and financial consequences of evolving legislation in Europe,
- in September, in Salzburg (Austria), with CONSOIL 2010.
These opportunities should increase our contributions to discussions with other stakeholders (industries, European Commission, Researchers, etc).
In parallel, we are continuing to update our work on ELD transposition and evolution of contaminated land management related legal framework. This should also help our exchanges of experiences.
The work to prepare the 10th ICCL meeting to be held in September 2011 in USA has started. We will need your contributions on active contact points in "new countries". Please send CF secretariat names and contact details for completing our invitees list.
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Kind regards,
Dominique
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NEXT COMMON FORUM MEETING AND JOINT WORKSHOP IN TRIESTE |
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First 2010 COMMON FORUM meeting and the Joint Workshop NICOLE-COMMON FORUM
will be held back to back in Trieste, Italy: |
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COMMON FORUM meeting
July 05, 2010
New Agenda and Registration Form available
Please do not forgot to register asap
so we could inform our italian partners and Nicole secretariat |
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Please remind that the deadline to reserve hotel room at the NH hotel
(with the special rate) where the events will take place is June 22nd, 2010
Both events organized with the support of
Il Consorzio per lo sviluppo industriale della zona dell'Aussa-Corno
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| COMMON FORUM QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED LAND - RESULTS |
Up to now, we received answers from 11 countries / Regions: Austria, Belgium / Flanders, Belgium / Wallonia, Czech republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain / Basque Country, Switzerland.
Three others are announced: France, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Their publication on the CF website will be effective after the Trieste meeting where we will discuss other options for dissemination. If any necessary change, please let us know.
For the others, it's still possible to contribute by addressing your answer to CF secretariat.
Many thanks to all.
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| COMMON FORUM AUTUMN MEETING - SALZBURG, AUSTRIA |
Second 2010 COMMON FORUM meeting
will be held in September in Salzburg, Austria
back to ConSoil 2010
Please mark your diary. A special registration form (for CF meeting and CONSOIL) will be send in the following weeks.
If any special request for the CF meeting agenda, please inform CF secretariat:
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| CONSOIL 2010 |
ConSoil 2010 - 22-24 September 2010, Salzburg, Austria
New documents available:
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| NICOLE TECHNOLOGY AWARD |
Call for 2010: entries on "Innovative site characterisation tools"
Over the last 10 years, NICOLE has carried out multiple projects and organised a series of workshops, providing a discussion platform and a sound technical basis for risk based management of contaminated land. Reoccurring themes in the discussions on risk-based land management are sustainability and cost-efficiency.
NICOLE is interested in promoting continuous development and improvement in these fields. In 2010 the NICOLE Steering Group decided to launch a yearly TECHNOLOGY AWARD. This award intends to stimulate people to bring forward technical innovations that can contribute to an improved practice for contaminated land management in line with the NICOLE ambition.
More information on NICOLE web site (www.nicole.org)
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| NEWS FROM EUROPEAN COMMISSION |
Call for tenders from DG Environment
Provisions on penalties related to legislation on industrial installations
More information on EU Commison web site (http://ec.europa.eu)
Joint Research Center (JRC) - European Soil Portal
SCAPE Project - The Way Ahead
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SCAPE project (Soil Conservation and Protection for Europe) has given scientists the opportunity to discuss soil conservation and protection strategies in an informal way with people who are either responsible for finding solutions, or being affected by them. Several hundreds of peoplet have contributed to this book, either collectively or individualle. They include the scientists, soil conservation and protection practitioners and stakeholders.
Download from JRC European Soil Portal
(via EU Soil Portal web site http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu) |
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| NEWS FROM CL:AIRE |
First authoritative sustainable remediation framework launched in UK
The first ever authoritative framework highlighting the importance of incorporating sustainability issues right at the forefront of the remediation and redevelopment process could set the benchmark for improved remediation and developing better places on brownfield land, according to a new report. The SuRF-UK Framework titled “A Framework for assessing the sustainability of soil and groundwater remediation” can be downloaded from www.claire.co.uk/surfuk
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| UK - CORBY SETTLEMENT |
The 19 families of children born with deformities caused by toxic dust from a former steelworks, have reached an out-of-court settlement over compensation with Corby Borough Council. The details of this are confidential.
More information on BBC web site
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EUGRIS CORNER |
New documents on EUGRIS, the platform for European contaminated soil and water information. Resources, events projects and news items added on EUGRIS can be viewed at: http://www.eugris.info/whatsnew.asp.
Then select the appropriate month and year for the updates in which you are interested. However, here is a selection of new additions to EUGRIS prepared by Paul Bardos (r3 Environmental Technology Ltd) for Common Forum members.
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| FORTHCOMING EVENTS |
3rd International conference "Contaminated sites Bratislava 2010"
June 2-4, 2010, in Bratislava, Slovakia
The event is organized under the auspices of the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic and Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic. Themes:
- Strategies, Methodologies, EU and Member States Legislation
- Priority Chemicals, POPs, Investigation, Science, Development
- Clean-up Applications, Local and Regional Solutions
More inforation at EKOTOX web site
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Contaminated sites workshop
June 9, 2010 in Paris, France,
organised by UPDS and ADEME
(conference language is French)
More information at UPDS web site
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4th International Symposium on Permeable Reactive Barriers & Reactive Zones -
(PRB/RZ-2010)
July 6-8, 2010, in Antwerp, Belgium
Scope of PRB/RZ-2010 is: Improving quality of groundwater via permeable reactive barriers or reactive zones. The final conference of the MULTIBARDEM LIFE project (LIFE06 EBV/B/000359) will be integrated in the PRB/RZ-symposium. The goal of this project was demonstrating multibarriers at pilot scale for different applications and geological situations.
More information at VITO web site
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4th International Conference
"Innovative solutions for revitalization of degraded areas"
October 6-8, 2010, Poland
The conference will focus on the techniques of soil-water environment monitoring and survey, spatial planning strategies,
management and implementation of revitalization process, remediation technologies for degraded areas, and natural landscape, social and
economical aspects of revitalization.
More information at the Research and Supervisory Centre of Underground Mining Co. Ltd web site: www.cbidgp.pl
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Annual East Coast Conference
26th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy
October 18-21, 2010
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
More information at the University of Massachusetts web site
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Annual West Coast Conference
21st Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy
and AEHS Foundation Annual Meeting
March 14-17, 2011
Marriott Mission Valley, San Diego, California
More information on the AEHS Foundation web site
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7th International SedNet event
April 6-9, 2011
Venice, Italy
Sediments and Biodiversity: bridging the gap between science and policy
More information at SedNet web site
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Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union
International Conference
May 26-27, 2011
Keszthely, Hungary
More information on University of Pannonia web site
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See all annoucement on Common Forum web site
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