Agenda
Please note:??Timings are in CET (Central??European Time)??
- Session 4: Sustainability and the BPR
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Updates on the high-level round table discussions and the likely impacts of the Reach/CLP reviews on the biocides sector
- Recent developments in the REACH/CLP review
- Links between Reach and biocides regulation
- New hazard classes
- Possible implications for active substance approval and product authorisation
Paul Krajnik
Deputy Director Chemicals and Biocides, Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Austria -
The EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS): What does it mean for biocides?
- The Green Deal and CSS: compliance of biocides???
- Impact assessment and socio-economic analysis (SEA)??
- A strategy for biocides??
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The Blue Angel ecolabel approach to antifouling
- 100 non-biocidal antifouling systems identified for the German market
- 14 different mechanisms of action
- Proofs of concept and banned substances??
Bernd Daehne
Director of Antifouling Research Station, Dr. Brill + Partner - Institute for Antifouling and Biocorrosion -
Q&A
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Refreshment break
- Session 4: Sustainability and the BPR, continued
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Legal perspective: Implications of sustainability regulations for companies in the biocides sector
- Context and drivers for sustainability????
- Current successes, difficulties and opportunities??
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Biocides and sustainable use
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Panel discussion on biocides and sustainable use
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Lunch
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Chemical Watch demo
- Session 5: The assessment of endocrine disrupting chemicals under the BPR
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Scientific criteria to identify endocrine chemicals
- What are the new methods and their implementation within regulatory assessment???
- How to build the weight of evidence?????
- Why is mechanistic toxicology required for ED assessment?????
- Endocrine activity versus adverse outcome?????
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The latest developments and significant legal issues arising on ED assessments
- Are the BPR???s ED criteria implementable? ??
- Data rights issues??
- Impact of chemicals strategy for sustainability
- ED as a new hazard class under the Regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures??(CLP)
- One substance, one assessment??
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Q&A
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Refreshment break
- Session 6: Efficacy updates
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Efficacy evaluation of disinfectants PT 1 to 5, PT 21 and treated articles PT 10 based on current development and Echa efficacy guidance including biofilm-activity testing
- Overview of current activity test methods for PT 1 ??? 5, PT 10 and PT 21
- Update on latest resistance developments
- Biofilm activity methods ??? quo vadis?
Florian H H Brill
Owner and Managing Director, Dr Brill + Partner GmbH, Institut f??r Hygiene und Mikrobiologie -
Efficacy ??? beyond the guidance
- The applicant???
- The assessor???
- The efficacy method provider???
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Simulated use test and field trial for PT5 claims and applications
- PT 5 claim matrix and Echa test requirements??
- Simulated use test ??? validation requirements (case study: UBA test)??
- Robust field trial experimental design (case study: animal drinking water facility)??
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Q&A
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End of conference