European Asbestos Removal Congres

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European Asbestos Removal Congres

• November 22-23, 2007
• Gallery Hotel, Barcelona
• sponsored by IDES
• Ibérica de Desamiantados

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Outline

• Brief introduction
• Goals
• EARA
• Situation in The Netherlands
• Shipbreaking

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Brief introduction

• This conference gt
• great initiative
• On behalf of European Asbestos Removal
  Association (EARA, WWW.EARA.NL)
• Little background Arnout Drop

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Goals

• Help raising awareness of dangers of asbestos
• Promoting EARA as a platform for asbestos removal
  industry in EU
• Focus attention on shipbreaking as a market
  opportunity

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EARA

• Establishment EARA in 1990 in UK
• Started as an association of associations (one
  vote per country)
• Limited possibilities gt conferences
• Code of Practice, based on EU-legislation
• Future plans gt multiple votes per country,
  company membership and / or project-organisation
  (retributions)
• Market development and lobbying on EU-legislation

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NL

• Mandatory certification of asbestos removal
  contractors since 1993, incl. investigation
  bureaus, laboratories and personel (implementing
  EU-directive 83/477/EEC)
• Risk based legislation since 2007, implementation
  of latest EU-legislation (2003/18/EG) gt
  differentiation
• Difficulties with liability insurance
• Special funds for cases from the past

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Developments

• Enlargement EU, average downwards? Difficult
  decision-making? Subsidiarity? Differences in
  scope and pace
• Internal market and competition gt mutual
  recognition of each others systems
• Lisbon-goals (global competition as EU, improving
  work-force / employability, dealing with
  obsolescence (aging and declining population),
  immigration, innovation, environment)
• Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR) gt public
  opinion, part of a chain, shareholders,
  liability, sustainable buying, banks and insurers

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Shipbreaking

• What is the issue?
• What are the possibilities?
• What strategy could be developed?
• Conclusions

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Activities

• Stakeholders consultation by EU
• Enforcement of EU-legislation on waste-treatment
  (no exportation outside EU)
• Cooperation with NGO Platform on Shipbreaking,
  Public Hearing
• Setting up network ship-owners, docks,
  port-authorities, (national) governments, IMO

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Quotes

• From the ships scrapped between 2006 and 2015 an
  estimated 5.5 million tonnes of materials of
  potential environmental concern will end up in
  dismantling yards (in particular oil sludge,
  oils, paints, PVC and asbestos
• Ship-breaking is a dangerous activity. According
  to a recent Indian report, already one in six of
  the workers at Alang, India's largest dismantling
  site, is suffering from asbestosis.

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Thank you!

• Have a good conference, good business
• And join EARA !!!

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