BROWNFIELD EXPO CONFERENCE - A USERS' GUIDE TO THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTAMINATED LAND

Wednesday 21st May 2008



This essential EIC conference will provide a clear guide to the complex and rapidly changing current and future regulatory framework for contaminated land including:

- New Land Remediation Code of Practice
- Rapid developments on technical competence, verification and accrediation
- Latest developments on CLEA/SGVs
- Changes in the application of the definition of waste

PROGRAMME

Regulation of Contaminated Land: Industry Taking the Lead?
Chair: Alistair Kean, Chair EIC Contaminated Land Working Group and Director IKM Consulting

10.00	Registration
10.15	Chair’s Introduction - Alistair Kean, Chair EIC Contaminated Land Working Group and Director IKM Consulting
10.25	Regulating Brownfield Development: The Agency’s Goals - Barbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency - Agency role in brownfield regeneration - Agency goals in regulating land remediation - Industry taking a lead in best practice
10.55	Implications of the EU Waste Framework Directive - John MacIntyre, Waste Regulation Policy Manager, Defra - Progress of Waste Framework Directive - Implications for when waste stops being waste - Defra guidance on definition of waste
11.15	Industry Taking the Lead? - Ged Duckworth, Lead Author, Land Remediation Code of Practice - Role of a Code of Practice - Key aspects of the proposed Code - How a Code would work in Practice
11.35	Taking Responsibility: Competence, Verification and Accreditation - Clive Boyle, Vice-Chair, EIC Contaminated Land Working Group - Technical competence under environmental permitting - Who can sign off under the Code of Practice? - EU Environmental Technology Verification Scheme
11.55	Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
12.30	Lunch & Exhibition

Part IIA and Risk Assessment- Back to the Drawing Board?

14.25	Key Issues for Contaminated Land Policy - Andrew Kuyk, Defra (tbc) - Defra’s proposals for SGVs - Emerging conclusions - Next steps
14.50	Contaminated Land Risks to Health - Dr David Russell, Health Protection Agency (tbc), - How the HPA assesses risks from contaminated land - Key issues for the HPA - Guidance available from the HPA
15.10	Key Priorities for Developers - Seamus Munro, Head of Environment, National Grid - Developing brownfield in the current regime - Key priorities for policy and legislative change
15.30	Risk Assessing Contaminated Soils in the Real World - TBC - ssessing contaminated land in the absence of SGVs and final CLEA UK software - Using CLEA in the real world - Key priorities for improving risk assessment of contaminated soils
15.50	Panel Discussion and Q&A session

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www.eic-uk.co.uk/brownfieldexpo