Joint NICOLE and COMMON FORUM WORKSHOP Trieste, Italy, 05-07 July 2010 New dates With the support of Il Consorzio per lo sviluppo industriale della zona dell'Aussa-Corno

Contaminated land management: opportunities,
challenges and financial consequences of evolving legislation in Europe

The members of the Common Forum and NICOLE share a commitment towards responsible contaminated land management. The different backgrounds lead to a diversity of perspectives on how best to manage contaminated land. The Common Forum members are by definition very involved in building and structuring the legislative framework, whereas the NICOLE members are putting it into practise in their daily work. In order to improve insight in each others perspectives and, with that, improve mutual understanding, NICOLE and Common Forum agreed to have a joint workshop. Currently a number of European Directives relevant for contaminated land is entering or approaching the stage of transposition to national regulation. This will definitely lead to changes that will affect contaminated land management in EU Member States. Both regulators as well as the private sector should be prepared for these changes. To discuss all these aspects and consequences we invite you to attend the joint workshop, which will be organised in Trieste, Italy, from Monday 5 to Wednesday 07 July 2010.

Call for abstracts

The organising committee invites NICOLE members to bring forward abstracts (max. 500 words) for presentations at the workshop.

Common Forum Contributions: COMMON FORUM members will be invited for presenting some directives and their transposition in Member States.

The evolving legislation to be discussed

The Directives we would like to discuss in the workshop are the Waste Directive (including the REACH perspective), the IPPC Directive (and the Industrial Emissions Directive), the Water Framework Directive, in particular the Groundwater Daughter Directive and the link to Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), and the Soil Framework Directive.

Key questions

We envisage focusing the discussion on the following key questions.

• What are the main considerations in the decisions during the revision and the transposition?
• What is the impact of the evolving legislation on the emerging field of sustainable remediation?
• What will be the opportunities for the implementation of innovative technologies?
• What will be the opportunities for cost-effective risk-based land management?
• How to deal with the nuances in the different Directive?

Workshop program and Registration form

Workshop program and registration form are available from Nicole web site.

Organising committee:

Arthur de Groof (NICOLE, OC co-chair)
John Waters (NICOLE)
Jean-Louis Sévêque (NICOLE)
Anja Sinke (NICOLE)
Ian Heasman (NICOLE)
Dominique Darmendrail (COMMON FORUM, OC co-chair)
Marijke Cardon (COMMON FORUM)
Francesca Quercia (COMMON FORUM)

For Common Forum Members, please submit your ideas to: