Conference: Sharing experiences in planning and funding in waste management
Dublin Castle, 17–20 May 2006
The conclusions of the conference
are dowloadable here in English and in French:
PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, 17th May
- 18.30 Welcome Reception
Number Six Kildare Street, Royal College of Physicians of
Ireland
Thursday, 18th May
Dublin Castle
- 09.00 Registration
- 09.30
Failte-Welcome
- Councillor Catherine Byrne,
Lord Mayor of Dublin
- Mr. Matt Twomey, Assistant City Manager
- 10.00 Session 1: Waste Management
Policy
Chair: Mr. Tom Loftus,
Head of Waste Management Services, Dublin City Council
- The role of economic instruments in EU Environmental policies,
Mrs Jane Feehan, EEA
- Deregulation or better regulation at the European level : new
challenges for LRA's? Mr. J-P. Hannequart, President ACR+
Debate
- 11.00 Coffee Break
- 11.30 Session 2: Waste Management Planning and
Funding
Chair : Mr. F. Leite, Executive
Director, LIPOR - Serviçio Intermunicipalizado de
Gestão de Residuos do Grande Porto (P)
- Ireland's approach to Waste Management - Mr. M. Layde,
Principal Officer, Department of the Environment; Heritage and
Local Government (IRL)
- Financing instruments for waste management, Mr. F. Radermaker,
Executive Secretary,
ACR+
- The introduction of economic instruments at the local level, the
Dublin experience, Mr. P.J. Rudden, Director, RPS Consulting
Engineers (IRL)
Debate
- 12.45 End of
Session
Lunch in Dublin Castle
- 14.15 Address by Mr Dick Roche, Minister
for Environment, Heritage and Local
Government
- 14.30 Session 3: Thematic Workshops on local
experiences – funding strategies at the local
level
Workshop 1: Creating transparency on waste
management costs.
Chair : Mrs. P. Chiva, Director, Agència de Residus de
Catalunya (E)
- Developing a common model for the assessment of waste management
costs, Mrs. V. Reix, Engineer, ADEME Angers (F)
- Assessing performances of waste management at the local
level, Mrs. M. Gillet, Assistant to the General Inspector in the
Walloon Office for Waste Management (B)
Debate
Workshop 2: Requiring citizens to pay for
waste management.
Chair : Mr. G. Blumenröther, RAL
(D)
- Encouraging waste reduction and diversion through variable
rate pricing for solid waste services , Prof. Dr. and
Engineer. Bernd Bilitewski, Dresden University of technology
(D)
- Municipal experience of variable charging, Mr. P. Macken,
IOK (B)
- Best performing PAYT systems at the local level, Mr D. Hogg,
Eunomia (UK)
Debate
Workshop 3: Involving producers in
the financing of municipal waste.
Chair : Mr. A. Jeridi,
President, APNEK-Tunisia / Municipal counselor of the city of
Kairouan (TN)
- The financing of municipal waste management in the
Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, Mr R. Liberton, Director, VALORLUX
(L)
- Charging real waste management costs - the Green dot fees in
Spain, Mr. C Martinez Orgado, Director Ejecutivo, Instituto para la
Sostenibilidad de los Recursos (ISR) (E)
- Application of waste management costs in Liège,
Mr. R. Croughs, General Director Intradel (B)
Debate
- 15.45 Coffee
Break
- 16.15 Plenary: Chairs reports of
Workshops. Debate and Conclusions
- 17.00 End of Session
- 17.30 ACR+ General
Assembly
Friday, 19th May
- 09.30 Session 4: Taxation on
products
Chair : Mr. A.
Pagliero, Dirretore Servizi Operativi, AMIAT Azienda Multiservizi
Igiene
Ambientale S.p.A., Torino (I)
- Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes, Mr. N.A.
Braathen, Principal
Administrator Environment Directorate, OECD
- The application of LCA's for the calculation of tax rate on
waste and products, Mrs
Skovgaard, ETCRWM
- The introduction of tax on shopping bags levy and other
proposals for Ireland : an
assessment – Mr. Pat Macken, Principal officer, Department of
the Environment,
Heritage and Local Government (IRL)
Debate
- 11.15 Coffee
Break
- 11.45 Session 5: Deposit
systems
Chair : Mr. M. Babicz,
Inspector, Urzad Miasta Stolecznego, Warsaw (PL)
- Mandatory return and deposit system for one-way packaging in
Germany, Dr Th.
Rummler, BMU (D)
- The deposit system on packaging in the Baltic States, Mr. P.
Eek, Head of the Waste
Management Dpt, Estonian Ministry of Environment (EST)
- Producer responsibility schemes and deposit systems for
packaging, Mr A. Hetherington, Chief Executive, REPAK (IRL)
Debate
- 13.00 Lunch in Dublin
Castle
- 14.30 Session 6 : Financing of waste management and
recycling
Chair : Mr. R. Cavallo,
President, AICA (I)
- The widespread use of the polluter-pays principle in
Flanders, potential and limits, Mr. D. Wille, Ir, OVAM (B)
- Public incentives for recycling in UK, Mr. D.
Silverstone, Chief Executive, London
Remade (UK)
- Developing markets for recycled products : a Belgian
experience, Mr. P. Delstanche, Project coordinator IRGT
(B)
- 16.00 Coffee Break
- 16.30 Round table : The place for
economic instruments in waste policy : the balance between
subsidiarity and European integration ?
Chair : Mr Kit Strange, General secretary, ACR+
Debate
- 17.30 Closing Session
Closing
Address: Mr. J-P Hannequart, President of ACR+.
- 18.00 End
- Evening: 19.30
Gala
Dinner - The Guinness Storehouse
Saturday, 20th May
Site Visits
- 10.00 Technical visit to Recycling
Facility
- 13.00 Delegates may wish to spend the
day/afternoon at their leisure in Dublin City oralternatively
become involved in:
- Historical walking tour of Dublin
- Bus tour to Wicklow - "The Garden of Ireland"