News Letters

NICOLE WORKSHOP IN SARDINIA

Dear All,

I have good news about the possibilities to meet in Sardinia, Francesca Quercia received an offer for sponsoring the costs of the meeting room from ECOTEC. So there will be a COMMON FORUM meeting on 30 November in Sardinia just before the NICOLE workshop were will have a COMMON FORUM session. Please note that there is no fee for participation in the NICOLE workshop for COMMON FORUM delegates. Please note that the program I sent you in a previous mail is preliminary, there will be no presentation of “The APAT guideline on RBLM” because this guideline does not exist. The title was the result of some complex misunderstanding. Instead there will be a presentation about the Italian experience and current developments in contaminated land management. Futher details will follow.

NEXT COMMON FORUM MEETING IN BUDAPEST

Gabor Haznos wil provide facilities for a two day meeting in spring 2006. By that time the commission will have published the “soil policy package” and we may have many things to discuss.

AN INVITATION FROM NICOLE

NICOLE workshop on 1 and 2 December 2005
The impact of EU directives on the management of contaminated land; do we have to start site remediation all over again?

Workshop venue: T-Hotel, Via dei Giudicati - Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Dear members of the Common Forum,

The last couple of years miscellaneous EU-directives were initiated, which could potentially have a significant impact on contaminated land management in the future. The “Van de Walle-case” is an example of how the EU Waste Directive can influence dramatically the way that contaminated land was dealt with so far.

The NICOLE members expressed that this issue is of first priority for their organisations.

On 1 and 2 December NICOLE organises a workshop at the T-hotel in Cagliari, Sardinia, on the impact of the EU directives on the management of contaminated land.

The aim of this workshop is:

1) to inform and explain what the miscellaneous directives mean to the management of contaminated land,
2) to give the opportunity for a dialogue between stakeholders and regulators.

The workshop includes a special session organised by your network, the Common Forum on Contaminated Land.