COUNTERING WEEE ILLEGAL TRADE PROJECT Final Conference 25-26 June 2015, Lyon - France
We are pleased to invite you to the final conference of the Countering WEEE Illegal Trade (CWIT) project to present you the project s preliminary findings. The CWIT consortium is taking on the challenge of providing a set of recommendations to the end user community and the European Commission to assist them in countering WEEE illegal trade. This event on 25-26 June 2015 will cover the following topics: - WEEE flows, WEEE market and WEEE actors. - Drivers of criminal e-waste activities - Recommendations aimed at tackling illegal trade of WEEE. The CWIT conference will bring together actors involved and interested in the trade of WEEE, in particular representatives of enforcement agencies, policy making institutions and the electronics (recycling) industry. Venue INTERPOL Headquarters, 200 Quai Charles de Gaulle. Lyon. France (X.Y: 45.782081, 4.848087) INTERPOL staff will accompany visitors from security check point to the conference room. For entry into the INTERPOL premises, attendees are required to bring their official identification documents (passport, national ID) to the event. Due to security control we encourage attendees to arrive to INTERPOL at 08.00. As part of the preventive measures taken by INTERPOL to deal with the threat posed by the Ebola virus, please complete the provided survey prior to your arrival at the premises. The conference language is English and there will be no translation provided. Conference admission is free of charge. Travel and accommodation costs incurred by attendees during the workshop will not be covered by the CWIT project. Dinner Attendees are invited to join the networking dinner on Thursday 25 June at 20.00 upon earlier registration and payment only (please make sure you have your Xing ticket with you). The dinner will take place in Lyon Marriott Hôtel Cité International, 70 Quai Charles de Gaulle, 69463 Lyon, France Please contact info@cwitproject.eu for further information.
Day One Thursday, 25 June 2015 09.00 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00 10.10 Opening remarks Tim Morris INTERPOL 10.10 10.20 Keynote address David Jordan Environment Agency (UK) 10.20 10.30 European Commission Maria Banti European Commission 10.30 10.40 Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions 10.40 11.30 CWIT key findings and recommendations Juliette Kohler, on behalf of Rolph Antoine Payet Basel Convention Secretariat Jaco Huisman United Nations University (UNU) Ioana Botezatu INTERPOL Juha Hintsa Cross Border Research Association (CBRA) Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum 11.30 11.45 Coffee Break 11.45 13.00 Topic I Collect more, prevent leakage Chair: Norbert Zonneveld* EERA Speaker: Sébastien Partida Eco-systèmes (FR) Chris Slijkhuis Müller Guttenbrunn (AT) Per Knut Vistad Politiet (NO) Lucía Herreras WEEE Forum 13.00 14.30 Lunch and film The E-Waste Tragedy, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer 14.30 15.45 Topic II Trading, treatment and the economics behind criminal behaviour Chair: Katie Olley* Scottish Environment Protection Agency Speaker: Christopher Smith Environment Agency (UK) Huib van Westen Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (NL) Mike Anane Freelance journalist (GH) Jim Puckett Basel Action Network (US) Bogdan Ghenciu INTERPOL 15.45 16.00 Group photograph at the atrium 16.00 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 17.45 Topic III Robust and uniform legal framework, implementation and enforcement Chair: Juliette Kohler* Basel Convention Secretariat Speaker: Bogdan Haiducu Unitatea Centrală de Analiză a Informaţiilor, Ministry Internal Affairs (RO) Marc Clément Cour administrative d appel de Lyon (FR) Katja Eman Univerza v Mariboru (SI) Teresa Fajardo del Castillo EFFACE (ES) Mary Liddane Compliance & Risks (IE) 17.45 18.00 Closing remarks Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum 20.00 23.00 Dinner *Member of the CWIT High Level Advisory Board
Day Two Friday, 26 June 2015 09.00 09.20 Coffee 09.20 09.30 Opening remarks Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum 09.30 10.45 Topic IV Best practices in enforcement and prosecution Chair: Frederik Verhasselt* Umicore Speaker: Jürgen Braun Polizei Bremen (DE) Rob de Rijck Functional Prosecution Service (NL) Malin Folkesson Polisen (SE) Jean-Philippe Rivaud Cour d appel (FR) Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia UNICRI 10.45 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 12.45 Topic V CWIT 2020: Roadmap to crime free WEEE trade and a circular economy Chair: Stephanie Adrian* Environment Protection Agency (US) Speaker: Nadia Herbelot Ministère de l Environnement (FR) Maria Banti European Commission Nancy Isarin IMPEL Eelco Smit* E-Waste Solutions Alliance for Africa (Philips) Juha Hintsa CBRA 12.45 13.00 Closing remarks Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum David Higgins INTERPOL 13.00 14.00 Lunch
Speakers Tim Morris INTERPOL David Jordan Environment Agency Maria Banti European Commission Juliette Kohler (on behalf of Rolph Antoine Payet) Rotterdam, Stockholm and Basel Convention Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum Juha Hintsa CBRA Ioana Botezatu INTERPOL Jaco Huisman UNU Norbert Zonneveld EERA Sébastien Partida Eco-systèmes Chris Slijkhuis Müller Guttenbrunn
Lucía Herreras WEEE Forum Per Knut Vistad Politiet Katie Olley Scottish Environment Protection Agency Jim Puckett Basel Action Network Christopher Smith Environment Agency Bogdan Ghenciu INTERPOL Huib van Westen Inspectie Leefomgeving and Transport Mike Anane Freelance journalist Bogdan Haiducu Unitatea Centrală de Analiză a Informaţiilor, Ministry Internal Affairs Marc Clément Cour administrative d appel de Lyon Katja Eman Univerza v Mariboru Rob de Rijck Functional Prosecution Service
Teresa Fajardo del Castillo EFFACE Malin Folkesson Polisen (SE) Mary Liddane Compliance & Risks Jean-Philippe Rivaud Cour d appel Frederik Verhasselt Umicore Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia UNICRI Jürgen Braun Polizei Bremen Stephanie Adrian Environment Protection Agency Nadia Herbelot Ministère de l Environnement Nancy Isarin IMPEL Eelco Smit E-waste solutions alliance for Africa (Philips) David Higgins INTERPOL
More information about the project at: http://www.cwitproject.eu/ info@cwitproject.eu Project coordinator: Ioana Botezatu (INTERPOL) i.botezatu@interpol.int Scientific coordinator: Dr. Ir. Jaco Huisman (UNU) huisman@unu.edu The CWIT Consortium: Project funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº 312605.