Prevention and protection against endocrine disrupting chemicals – What roles for an alliance of cities and local authorities in Europe?
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Date & Time20. April 2023
13:15 - 17:30 (CET) -
OrganiserThis symposium is organised by the Réseau Environnement Santé (RES), in partnership with the EDC-Free Europe coalition and the Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF) Germany
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It will highlight the important role that local authorities can play in reducing exposure to chemical pollution and will aim to initiate in Strasbourg the construction of a European Alliance on this issue. As the improvements of EU legislation on chemicals are progressing slowly, people and nature continue to be exposed everyday to harmful chemicals including endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) present everywhere in our daily life.
This symposium aims at promoting and sharing information on the initiatives taken at the national, regional, and local levels to increase awareness, prevention, and actions at different levels to inform citizens, and help reducing exposure to EDCs and other harmful chemicals, in particular for vulnerable groups. We will also explore the opportunities to increase synergies and networking between local authorities across Europe to contribute to this goal.
This initiative builds in particular on the experience developed in France with the network of cities and territories striving to be free of endocrine disrupting chemicals (VTSPE) and the experience of the Baltic Interreg project Non Hazardous Cities (NonHazCity). These initiatives have been highlighted in the European Parliament Resolution of 10 July 2020 on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (2020/2531(RSP)) and in the policy recommendations of the 2019 Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions: Towards a Comprehensive EU Framework on Endocrine Disruptors.
Agenda and more information can be found here: Symposium_Press notice
Agenda
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- 13:15 - 13:30Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Health and Prevention, in charge of Territorial Organisation and Health Professionals, France [tbc]
Jeanne Barseghian, Mayor of Strasbourg, France
Dr. Alexandre Feltz, City Council member in charge of public health and environmental health, City of Strasbourg, France - 13:30 - 13:45André Cicolella, President, Réseau Environnement Santé, France
Heidrun Fammler, Chief Executive, BEF Germany - 13:45 - 14:30Moderator: Sandra Jen, Coordinator, EDC-Free Europe Coalition
MEP Jutta Paulus, Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Greens/European Free Alliance, Germany
Nadège Hornbeck, Vice-president in charge of health, prevention and disability, Grand Est Region, France
Jordane Wodli, Sustainable Chemicals Unit, DG ENV, European Commission, EU
Hélène Moraut, Administrator at the Secretariat of the Commission for Natural Resource, European Committee of the Regions, EU
Arne Jamtrot, Head of unit of the Chemicals centre Environment and Health Department, City of Stockholm, Sweden - 14:30 - 15:15Moderator: André Cicolella, President, Réseau Environnement Santé, France
Prof. Anne-Simone Parent, Paediatrician endocrinologist, University of Liège, and representative of the European Society of Endocrinology, Belgium [tbc]
Dr. Marike Kolossa-Gehring, HBM4EU coordinator, Head of section toxicology at the German Environment Agency (UBA)
Dr. Aleksandra Rutkowska, Biotechnologist at the Medical University of Gdansk and member of the Polish Society of Endocrinology, Poland
Sandrine Jouan, Senior regulatory toxicologist and coordinator of the Belgian national plan on EDCs (NAPED), SPF Public Health, Belgium
Yann Wehrling, Vice-President in charge of the Ecological Transition, Climate and Biodiversity, Île-de-France Region, France - 15:15 - 15:45
- 15:45 - 16:30Moderator: Véronique Bertholle, City Council member in charge of cross-border, European and international relations, City of Strasbourg, France
Arne Jamtrot, Head of unit of the Chemicals centre Environment and Health Department, City of Stockholm, Sweden
Mairita Lūse, City Council member in charge of the working group on waste reduction and management, City of Riga, Latvia
Esa Nikunen, Director General of environment services, City of Helsinki, Finland
Lisa Kern, Member of the parliament of the City of Hamburg, Spokesperson for consumer protection for the green party at Hamburg, Germany
Heidrun Fammler, Chief Executive, BEF Germany - 16:30 - 17:15Moderator: Heidrun Fammler, Chief Executive, BEF Germany
André Cicolella, President, Réseau Environnement Santé, France
Nadine Rivet, City Council member in charge of public policies towards young children, City of Limoges, France
Ludivine Quintallet, Councillor of Alsace and founder of the plastic-free canteen initiative in Strasbourg, European Collectivity of Alsace, France
Jean-François Bridet, Vice-President in charge of the Ecological Transition, Climate and Biodiversity, Centre-Val de Loire Region, France
Céline De Laurens, City Council member in charge of charge of health, prevention and environmental health, City of Lyon, France
Dr. Richard Chemla, City Council member in charge of health, City of Nice and Vice president of the French Network of WHO Healthy Cities, France - 17:15 - 17:30André Cicolella, President, Réseau Environnement Santé, France
Sandra Jen, Coordinator EDC-Free Europe coalition