Wednesday 9 June

0800                        Registration

0900                        Session 1: Opening

·         Dr Beat Nobs

Chief, International Affairs Division, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape

·         Mr James B. Willis, Director, UNEP Chemicals

·         Mr Cyril Lukeke, Zambian Consolidated Copper Mines

0930                        Session 2: “Introduction to the meeting and to PCBs as an international environment and health issue”

·         Dr John Buccini, Chairman, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

0945                        Session 3: “The legal and policy framework for international action on PCBs”

·         Mr David Ogden, Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

·         Mr Nelson Sabogal, Deputy Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal

·         Ms Albena Kardjova, Secretariat for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution –UN ECE

1045                        Session 4: “PCB inventories: practicalities and the state of knowledge”

·         Mr Mario Abó Balanza, Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment, Havana, on Cuba

·         Mr Ueli Schneider, ETI, on Morocco

·         Mrs. Svitlana Sukhorebra, National Center for Hazardous Waste Management, Kiev, on Ukraine

·         Mr Nguyen Minh Cuong, Vietnam Environmental Protection Agency, on Vietnam

·         Dr Felippe de Alencastro, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, on laboratory and field analyses

1230                        Lunch

1330                        Session 5: “PCB management and planning”

·         Mr Yves Guibert on PCB management and risk assessment

·         Mr Nelson Manda on Zambia’s PCB management planning

·         Ms Anahit Aleksandryan on Armenia’s urgent PCB management needs in light of inventory and monitoring results

·         Mr Jack Weinberg, Environmental Health Fund, on barriers that delay and prevent good disposal and cleanup of historic PCB stocks and wastes

1430                        Session 6: “Transporting PCBs”

·         Mr Ibrahim Shafii, Secretariat of the Basel Convention, on Basel Convention requirements

·         Mr Olivier Kervella, UNECE, on transport of hazardous wastes

·         Mr Pasi Silvennoinen, Ekokem, on shipping obsolete pesticides from Ethiopia to Finland

·         Dr. Christian Reppekus, VVG GmbH & Co KG, on logistics

·         Mr Paul Hayward, Royal and SunAlliance, on insurance aspects

1600                        Session 7: “Disposing of waste PCBs and PCB-containing equipment”

·         Dr Ron McDowall, International Centre for Sustainability Engineering and Research, University of Auckland, on technology options

·         Ms Pat Costner, Greenpeace, on non-combustion disposal technologies

·         Dr Luciano Gonzalez, Kinectrics, on mobile, non-destructive PCB treatment technologies

·         Dr Christos Eleftheriades, Thermopower, on destruction of PCB oil and PCB oil containing equipment in South Africa

·         Mr Kåre Helge Karstensen, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and European Cement Association (CEMBUREAU), on use of cement kilns for PCB destruction

·         Mr Juri Treger, Scientific Research Institute ("Syntez"), on Russia’s assessment of disposal technologies

·         Dr Ian Rae, University of Melbourne, on contaminated sites

·         Dr Cristina Tumiatti, Sea Marconi, on PCB disposal projects in Cyprus and Italy

1830                        Reception

Thursday 10 June

0900                        Session 8: “Replacement of transformers and other PCB-containing equipment”

·         Mr Michael Müller, Enviro-Consultant, on overall planning for replacement of equipment

·         Mr James Roewer, Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, on U.S. utility industry PCB phase-out efforts

·         Mr Sven Schreiber, ABB, on a transformer replacement project for Alcan Inc.

·         Mr Heinz Raithel, Siemens, on GEAFOL cast resin transformers

·         Mr Reiner Streek, SGB, on improving efficiency in industrial distribution grids by replacing PCB transformers in the German automotive industry

·         Mr Dirk Neupert, Envio, on cleaning/retrofilling as an alternative to transformer replacement

1100                        Session 9: “The financial mechanism of the Stockholm Convention”

·         Dr Laurent Granier, GEF Secretariat

1115                        Session 10: “The PCB activities of the GEF Implementing Agencies”

·         Mr Andrew Hudson, UNDP

·         Mr Takehiro Nakamura, UNEP

·         Dr Zoltan Csizer, UNIDO

·         Mr Murray Newton, World Bank

1230                        Lunch

1330                        Session 11: “The PCB activities of the bilateral Official Development Assistance agencies”

·         Dr Franz Stoessel, DEZA, Switzerland

·         Dr Matthias Kern, GTZ, Germany

·         Mr Lars Asplund, Swedish EPA

·         Mr Bob Dyer, Arctic Council Action Programme

·         Ms Mikala Klint, Danish EPA

·         Ms Nicola Lettington, DEFRA, UK

·         Dr John H. Smith, US EPA

·         Dr Cameron Hill, AusAID

·         Mr Jouko Eskelinen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

1500                        Session 12: “Innovative approaches to project design”

·         Hon. J. Hugh Faulkner, Sustainable Project Management, on public-private partnerships

·         Mr Alwin Kool, FMO - Netherlands Finance for Development Company (FMO), on partnerships for sustainable investment projects (Tanzania case study)

·         Mr Husamuddin Ahmadzai, Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, on financing a PCB/POPs destruction facility for Northwestern Russia

·         Dr Dariusz Prasek, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, on addressing the PCB issue from an investment point of view

·         Dr Chris Waller, Croplife International, on industry participation in the disposal of obsolete pesticides

1700                        Session 13: Conclusion

·         Dr John Buccini (facilitator) with panel (Mr Nelson Manda, Mr Michael Müller and Mr Ron McDowall)