Events
Events
OECD Workshop – Socio-economic Impact Assessment of Chemicals Management
6-8 July 2016 | Helsinki, Finland
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) hosted a workshop on “socioeconomic impact assessment of chemicals management” that took place on 6, 7 and 8 July in Helsinki at ECHA. The purpose of the workshop was to present and discuss recent practices and experiences in chemicals risk management and valuation.
Four background papers were used as basis for the workshop and in all 29 presentations were held by member countries, international organisations, industry, non-governmental organisations, Consultants and Academics. The topics of the workshop were:
- Experiences with Socioeconomic assessment for Chemical Managements
- Chemical risk assessment as input for the economic valuation of impacts
- Economic valuation of chemicals’ impacts on health and the environment
- Transferring/Extrapolating monetised impacts from one chemical to other chemicals
- Quantifying regulatory efficacy of risk management activities
- The costs of regulatory action in chemicals impact assessment
OECD Workshop Report and Annex
Agenda
- Agenda [PDF]
Presentations
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
- Keynote presentation by Alan Krupnick (Resources for the Future) Presentation [PDF]
Session 1 & 2 – Experiences with Socioeconomic Impact Assessment in Chemicals Management
- Matti Vainio (ECHA) Presentation [PDF]
- Thea Sletten (Norwegian Environment Agency) Presentation [PDF]
- Cody Rice (US EPA) Presentation [PDF]
- Joe Devlin (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and Michael Donohue (Health Canada) Presentation [PDF]
- Daniel Slunge (University of Gothenburg) Presentation [PDF]
- Michael Donohue (Health Canada) and Wambui Kipusi (Environment and Climate Change Canada) Presentation [PDF]
- Sara Broomhall (Australian Government, Department of the Environment) Presentation [PDF]
- Frank George (WHO Europe) Presentation [PDF]
- Pierre Quilbier (UNEP) Presentation [PDF]
- Mike Holland (Econometrics Research and Consulting) Presentation [PDF]
- Rana Roy (Consulting Economist) Presentation [PDF]
- Alistair Hunt (University of Bath) Presentation [PDF]
- Sonja Haider (ChemSec) and Vito Buonsante (ClientEarth) Presentation [PDF]
- William Carroll (University of Indiana) Presentation [PDF]
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Session 3 – Chemical risk assessment as input for the economic valuation of impacts
- Weihsueh Chiu (Texas A&M University) Presentation [PDF]
- Leo Trasande (New York University) Presentation [PDF]
Session 4 – Economic valuation of chemicals’ impacts on health and the environment
- Anna Alberini (University of Maryland) Presentation [PDF]
- Rana Roy (Consulting Economist) Presentation [PDF]
- Mike Holland (Econometrics Research and Consulting) Presentation [PDF]
- Christoph Rheinberger (ECHA) Presentation [PDF]
Session 5 – Transferring/Extrapolating monetised impacts from one chemical to other chemicals
- Ståle Navrud (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) Presentation [PDF]
- Alistair Hunt (University of Bath) Presentation [PDF]
Friday, 8 July 2016
Session 6 – Quantifying regulatory efficacy of risk management activities
- Susan Dudley (George Washington University) Presentation [PDF]
- Sonja Haider (ChemSec) Presentation [PDF]
- Kevin Flowers (EU Commission) Presentation [PDF]
Session 7 – The costs of regulatory action in chemicals impact assessment
- Hans Dommershuijzen (Tata Steel) Presentation [PDF]
- Stavros Georgiou (U.K. Health and Safety Executive) Presentation [PDF]
- Frans Oosterhuis (VU University Amsterdam) Presentation [PDF]
- Hugo Waeterschoot (Eurometaux) Presentation [PDF]
Feedback from participants on the workshop
- Feedback survey Presentation [PDF]
- Feedback results Presentation [PDF]
Participants
- List of in-person participants who agreed to have their name published.
Contact
For questions about the Workshop, please contact: Christoph.RHEINBERGER[at]echa.europa.eu