PURPOSE:  This seminar is a networking event for competent authorities and industry organisations in EU and EU-affiliated countries funded by the DG-ECHO-JRC project, Seveso Capacity Building in EU Neighbourhood Countries, under the Civil Protection Mechanism jointly with the JRC Enlargement and Integration activity.  The purpose of the workshop is to bring together EU and EU-affiliated countries to discuss emerging risks and concerns associated of chemical hazard sites and implications for risk management and enforcement on Seveso sites in the EU and equivalent hazards in EU-affiliated countries. 

PARTICIPATION:  The audience for the workshop are competent authority representatives from EU and EU-affiliated countries, industry and international organisations who wish to participate in a dialogue on critical issues affecting the future of government oversight on the management of chemical accident risks in EU and EU-affiliated countries.

The event also includes the opportunity to have a half-day hands-on workshop the JRC's ADAM (chemical accident) and the Rapid-N (Natech) consequence assessment applications.  Places are limited so priority is assigned to EU-affiliated competent authority experts, but EU country experts can also participate as space is available.

WHEN:  13:30 14 June 2017 to 17:30 15 June 2017

WHERE:  European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

STRUCTURE:  There will be six sessions of 1 ½ to 2 hours.

• Session 1:  We can't improve what we can't measure. Are we reducing chemical accident risks and how do we know? Do we have the right tools to measure this?
• Session 2:  Integrity of installations and equipment (maintenance, aging, etc.)
• Sessions 3 and 4:  IT security and safety challenges.  Risks associated with IT technology and automation in major hazard industries
• Session 5:  Challenges in substance classification for Seveso Directive implementation, especially non-harmonised substance classifications 
• Session 6: Organisational change – implications for enforcement

Programme of Events
Final agenda (pdf) with presentations
Abstracts

FINAL REPORT
  Executive Summary

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: