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Training
programme for REACH targeted to consultants located in the Baltic
States
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Funded by:
German Ferderal Environmental Foundation
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Carried out by:
Andreas Ahrens, Kerstin Heitmann, Antonia Reihlen
Institute for Environmental Strategies, Germany
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In co-operation with:
Jan Gittinger, Contract KG
Heidrun Fammler, Guna Krumina, Jana Simanovska
Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF)
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Duration:
February 2004 - May 2005
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| Background |
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| From the date of accession the three Baltic States -
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - have to comply with European legislation.
The majority of Community legislation has been transposed whereas
its implementation (and enforcement) is lacking behind in administrations
and in industry. Chemicals policy is a fairly new issue to all stakeholders
and there is a need for training and strategic consulting services
in the countries. |
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| The Baltic Environmental Forum in co-operation with
Oekopol has been working on issues of chemicals policy and chemicals
risk management in the three Baltic States since 1998. The network
of actors in administrations, industry and consulting institutions
and the knowledge already transferred forms the basis for the training
programme |
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| Objectives and expected resluts |
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| The goal of the programme is to build up consulting
capacity in the Baltic States for training and consulting industry,
governments and administrative institutions. The content of the training
programme is based on requirements resulting from existing legislation
regarding chemicals risk management and chemicals risk communication.
The training shall also show how the requirements can be implemented
in industry and national administrations in compliance with REACH
and in an integrated way. |
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| After the training the local consultants shall be able
to further disseminate their knowledge either in form of seminars
for different target groups or in direct consulting situations. The
training materials and exercises, as well as training concepts and
lectures developed during the programme will be compiled in a training
manual. |
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| Project activities |
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| The training programme consists of 5 training
courses. Between the training sessions "homework" will be
assigned consisting of concrete work with companies or administrations,
the results of which are discussed in the following session. |
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| In the first course the REACH proposal and
the roles of and requirements for the different actors will discussed.
The second course will introduce relevant methodology for chemicals
risk assessment, reduction and communication and the third course
will be dedicated to more detailed discussion of certain REACH mechanisms.
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| The fourth course is dedicated to developing
stakeholder specific seminars based on the knowledge the trainees
have acquired in the previous training sessions. The seminars shall
be "tested" and will be evaluated in the last course. |
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| Contact |
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| Dirk Jepsen |
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