European Environmental Bureau
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AND SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES
“EUROPEAN CHEMICALS POLICY REFORM – FROM EMOTIONS TO FACTS”
Brussels, 24th March 2004

Brief information about speakers and chairpersons of the sessions

MAURO ALBRIZIO, MR.
is Vice-president of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). He works for Legambiente, which is the most widespread Italian environmental organization with 110,000 members and more than 1,000 local groups. Since 1983 – when Legambiente was established - he has held several positions in its organization. Mauro Albrizio is now European Affairs Director and heads Legambiente European Policy Office in Brussels.

ON. GUIDO SACCONI
Italy -Democratici di Sinistra
Born on 23 June 1948, Udine
Group of the Party of European Socialists, Member
European Parliament, Member
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, Vice-Chairman
Committee on Petitions, Member
Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, Member

Secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects (1967).
CGIL Secretary-General for Florence. CGIL Secretary-General for Tuscany. PDS Secretary-General for Florence and Tuscany. Vice-Chairman of Tuscany Regional Council.

JOHN HONTELEZ, MR.
Secretary General European Environmental Bureau since December 1st, 1996

 born 10 March 1954, Meerveldhoven, the Netherlands;
 living in Brussels, married, no children;
 Master of Science in Non-Western Sociology, specialised in political antropology of Latin America; finished studies in 1979 at the Free Univer-sity of Amsterdam;

Other positions:
- Member Board Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsawa, since 1996.
- Member Coordination Board Ecoforum (a Pan-European network of Environmental Citizens Organisations), since 1994 and
- Chair of its Public Participation Campaigns Committee
- Member (as observer) of the Bureau of the Aarhus Convention

Former Activities:
 1986-1996: Chairman Friends of the Earth International;
 1988-1996: Founder and Chairman Milieukontakt Oost Europa, and Member of its Board from 1997-2002
 1991-1996: Member Executive Committee Environmental Liaison Centre International, Nairobi
 1990-1996: Working for Friends of the Earth Europe, resp. as Coordinator Central and Eastern Europe Programme and Policy Coordinator
 1985-1991: Member of the board of Vereniging Milieu-defensie (Friends of the Earth-Netherlands)
 1985-1989: Assistant to a Member of the European Par-liament (Bram van der Lek)
 1973-1985: Lead role in the Dutch anti-nuclear and energy movement
 1979-1985: Several posts (a.o. Secretary General) in the national board of the former Pacifist Socialist Party, Netherlands

DR. THOMAS HOLTMANN, MR.
Personal data Born on April 3, 1961 in Dormagen, Germany
Married,1 child

Education 1971 - 1980 Final secondary school examinations (Abitur), Quirinus-Gymnasium, Neuss, Germany
1980 - 1982 Military service
1982 - 1990 Graduate engineer in mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), University RWTH Aachen, Germany - Diploma thesis at Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France
1996 Graduation in economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Karlsruhe (TH)

Occupational career 1990 - 1996 Scientific employee at the French-German Institute for Environmental Research, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
1997 - 1999 Group manager at the French-German Institute for Environmental Research, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
1999 - today Unit manager for occupational health protection, department of environmental policy, Federation of German Industries

FRANK FAHEY, MR.
T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, with special responsibility for Labour Affairs, including Training

Birth Place: Dublin, June 1951
Family: Married to Ethelle with 2 sons and 1 daughter
Education: St. Mary’s College, Galway, Our Lady’s College Gort, NUI,
Galway (BA, H.Dip. Ed)
Occupation: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and
Employment, with special responsibility for Labour Affairs,
including Training. Formerly, secondary school teacher

Career Information
June 2002-Present: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and
Employment, with special responsibility for Labour Affairs,
including Training.
2000-2002: Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources
1997-2000: Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with
special responsibility for Children
1993-1997: Senator, Labour Panel – Seanad Spokesman on Enterprise and
Employment
1989-1992: Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Transport and
Communications, with special responsibility for Sports Tourism
1987-1992: Minister of State at the Department of Education with special
responsibility for Youth and Sport
1987-1992: Fianna Fail Deputy – Dail Spokesman on Youth Affairs and Sport

Background: He was first elected to the Dail in February 1982 and continued to
1992 when he lost his seat due to a constituency boundary revision.
After this blow, he worked on re-buiding his support base in the
Constituency and was successfully re-elected in 1997, topping the
Poll and being elected on the first count

ARNOLD VAN DER WIELEN, MR
Senior Policy Adviser at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Directorate-General for the Environmental Protection
As biologist he entered in 1981 the services of the Environmental Department of the former Ministry of Public Health and the Environment. Since 1987 he managed the Chemical Substances Bureau, responsible for the implementation of the Dangerous Substances Directive and the Existing Substances Regulation. Since 1999 he extended his task to the several national and international programmes dealing with existing substances and participated in the OECD Task Forces on Existing Substances and on Mutual Acceptance of Notifications.
During 2001-2003 he was part-time delegated to DG Environment of the European Commission for providing technical assistance in the Commission team responsible for developing the future EU chemicals management legislation, known as REACH, and is now active as part of the NL delegation in the Ad Hoc Council Working Group discussing the REACH proposal.

TOM C.J. FEIJTEL, MR.
Tom studied at the University of Brussels and Gent where he obtained a Biology and Environmental Engineering degree in 1982. In 1986, he moved to the States with a Rockefeller scholarship to obtain a Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry and Marine Sciences at Louisiana State University. From 1986 to 1989, he taught Chemical Engineering and Environmental Modeling at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in The Netherlands, where he was appointed associate professor.
In 1989, he joined Procter & Gamble. His responsibilities included
(1) management of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Unit of P&G in Europe,
(2) design and management of environmental safety programs
(3) risk assessment and risk management of chemicals and (4) participation in long-range planning of environmental research for the European Chemical Industry. In 1999, he transferred to the US and assumed the associate Directorship of the Human & Environmental Safety Division, and managed the Environmental Science Department globally. He was responsible for management, strategic research planning and the business plan of the Environmental Research Portfolio of the Company worldwide, and managed a staff of ~ 60 researchers.
Today, Tom is back in Brussels, where he was appointed Associate Director, EU Corporate External Relations, WE & CEEMEA. His responsibilities include managing European policy and legislation on consumer & environmental protection, innovation and competitiveness and relationships with European NGOs.
He’s chairman of several working groups, task forces, technical or scientific committees; holds 2 patents, (co)authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 reports and 2 books, and presented more than 100 platform and invited presentations at a variety of symposia and scientific meetings.

GRAHAM WILLMOTT, MR.
 Born 1961 in London
 1979-1982: Studied Physics at Bristol University
 1983-1995: Worked as a nuclear engineer on various UK nuclear power stations
 1995-2000: European Commission (assistance to Eastern European nuclear regulators)
 2000-date: European Commission (chemicals White Paper of 2001; various expert working groups 2001-2002; drafting new legislation 2002-2003; support to co-decision process in Council and Parliament 2003-2004; meetings with stakeholders throughout this time - but especially intense ever since launch of Internet consultation in May 2003)

DR. HORST RIESENBERG-MORDEJA
Geb. am 18.04.1954 in Bremen
verheiratet, eine Tochter
Studium der Chemie an der Universität Würzburg
Promotion in Biochemie an der Universität Bremen
seit 10/1992 Gewerkschaft ÖTV, Landesbezirk Sachsen-Anhalt, Referatsleiter Energiepolitik, Abfallwirtschaft, Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz
seit 2/2002 ver.di-Bundesverwaltung, Berlin, Referatsleiter "Arbeitsschutz und Unfallverhütung"

INGER SCHÖRLING, MRS.
Member of the European parliament since 1995.
Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. Member of Green Group's bureau, vice president 1997-1999
Member of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy committee since 1999
Member social affairs committee 1995 to 1999
Member of the ACP-EU Council since 1995

Recent reports and opinions in the environment committee:
-Rapporteur on the White paper on Chemicals
-Rapporteur for the directive on strategic environmental assessment
-Draftsperson on public procurement opinion
-Draftsperson on environmental crimes opinion
Political work in Sweden
Member of the Swedish green party since 1981
Member of the Swedish Parliament and leader of the Green Party parliamentarian group
(1988-1991) Member of the speakers conference (1988-1991)
Member of Gävleborg county board 1985-
Education
College 1965-1967, 1980-1982
Training in sales and marketing, 1978-1981
Uppsala universitet, inst. biology 1982-1984
Uppsala universitet, inst. human geography 1984-1988

DR MICHAEL WARHURST, MR.
EU Toxics Policy, WWF European Policy Office

Dr Warhurst works for WWF’s European Policy Office in Brussels, focussing on EU chemicals policy. Prior to moving to Brussels in 2002 he worked for five years for Friends of the Earth in London, also focussing on chemicals policy. He has a Degree in Biochemistry from the University of York, a PhD (in the breakdown of chemicals by bacteria) from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Green Chemistry”.

DR ALEX FÖLLER, MR.
Date of birth: 10th May 1959
Place of birth: Ingelheim
Marital status: Married, one child
Education:
1978: Further education - Abitur
1979-1981: Civil service in the Frauenklinik of the Universitätskliniken, Mainz
1981-1988: Study of Economics at Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz
Professional development:
1988-1992: Post Graduate Assistant to a Professor of Economics at Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz
1994: Graduation to Doctorate
1992-1999: Referent in the VCI (Verband der Chemischen Industrie), the German Chemicals Industries Association
1992-1993: Referent in the Economics and the Statistics Department
1993-1995: Head of the Economics and the Statistics Department
1995-1999: VCI Manager and task coordinator for the ‚Protection of humanity and the environment’ commission of the Deutsche Bundestag
1st January 2000: Entrance into the TEGEWA e.V. association
since 1st July 2001: Director of the TEGEWA e.V. association

DANIELLE FREILICH, MRS.
Born: 19 10 50
Education:
Danielle Freilich, a French national, graduated as a chemical engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supėrieure de Chimie de Paris in 1972. She obtained her PhD in chemistry at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1977.
The subject of her research was dynamic polyelectrolyte membranes for reverse osmosis.
Employments:
The Swedish Construction Federation, 1997–: environmental manager
The Swedish National Chemicals Inspectorate, 1986–1997: project director within the area of risk management
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 1980–1985: inspection and guidance on chemical products
The Swedish Water and Air Pollution Institute, Stockholm, 1978–1980: use of membrane technology for treatment of wastewaters from pulp and paper mills
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1973–1977
Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, Frankrike, 1972–1973: polymer production under gamma rays radiation

DR COLIN CHURCH, MR.
After his PhD in organic chemistry and a post-doctoral fellowship, Colin joined the Department of the Environment in 1994, where he worked for two years. Following a stint in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the EU he moved to the UK telecommunications regulator OFTEL, where he led the EU and International Affairs Team. From there he moved to the Cabinet Office’s Regulatory Impact Unit as Head of the Europe Team where he led successful efforts to raise the profile of better regulation at EU level, including co-writing and editing the report of the Mandelkern Group on Better Regulation. He is now the head of Chemicals and GM Policy Division in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where his responsibilities include the UK lead on the new EU chemicals strategy.

RENAUD SOUFFLOT DE MAGNY, MR.
Eurobarometer – Project manager

37 years old

1991 Degree from Institut d’études politiques, Paris
1991-1992 French Embassy in Oslo :
Cultural attaché
1992-1994 University of Oslo
Norwegian School of Management BI
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Lecturer in French civilisation
1994-1998 Østfold College (Halden, Norway)
Lecturer in French civilisation – Field of Research: Pre-electoral surveys
1998-2000 European Commission – Public opinion Analysis
Consultant – Editor for a weekly newsletter about public opinion in the EU
2000-… European Commission – Directorate General Press and Communication - Eurobarometer
Administrator – Project manager for Standard and Flash Eurobarometer surveys, in charge of ad hoc analyses for Commissioners and Cabinets

DR. MED. VET. URSULA G. SAUER, MRS.
Akademie für Tierschutz, Spechtstrasse 1, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany, Tel..: +49 89 / 600 291 0, ursula.sauer@tierschutzakademie.de
Veterinary degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine of University of Munich
Since 1992:
scientific counselor at the Animal Welfare Academy of the German Animal Welfare Federation in Neubiberg (Munich), Germany
main area of work: alternatives to animal experiments
special appointments:
 deputy member of the Executive Board of the German Foundation set.
 deputy member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of ZEBET.
 member of ISO Working Groups on the Biological Evaluation of Medical Devices.
 1998 – 2003: member of the Primate Expert Group of the Council of Europe assigned with the task of providing proposals for the revision of Appendix A of the European Convention ETS123.
 2001 – 2002: member of Working Group “Testing, Registration, Evaluation” formed by the European Commission as a follow up on the White Paper on Chemicals.

SYLVIA ALTAMIRA, M.A., MRS.
International Network Coordinator
Women In Europe For A Common Future
Ms. Altamira coordinates the International Project "Working Towards a Toxic Free Future"
for the WECF network. WECF is a pan-European network of 'women and women's organisations
working on issues related to environment, health and sustainability. WECF has 5 main working groups.
1)Health 2)Agriculture and Sustainable Development 3.)Energy 4.) Water 5.) Gender.

GYULA HEGYI, MR.
Member of Hungarian Parliament

Work experience
1976- Journalist, editor at the daily newspaper Magyar Hírlap (from 1994 on unpaid leave until the end of the parliamentary mandate)
1975-76 – Civil engineer at the Hungarian State Railways

Education and training
1976-77 – School of Journalism
1970-75 – Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Civil Engineering
1957-69 – prime and secondary school in Budapest

Languages
Mother tongue: Hungarian
Other languages: English (excellent reading, writing, verbal skills)
German (basic reading, writing, verbal skills)
Polish (basic verbal skills)

Political activities
1994- Member of the Hungarian Parliament (re-elected in 1998 and in 2002)
2002- Member of the European Integration Committee, Vice Chairman of the Environmental Committee
(formerly member of the Human Rights Committee)
1994- Member of the Council of Europe
Member of the Social, Cultural and Monitoring Committees
CE Rapporteur on social issues, on the freedom of the media, on Kosovo, Macedonia and Bosnia issues, observer of elections in the Balkan region
1995- Member of the Hungarian Socialist Party
2002- Board member of the ATTAC Hungary
2000- Board member of the International League of Religious Socialists
1989-94 Founder and board member of the Amnesty International in Hungary

Writing
Published some thousand articles on culture and politics in Hungarian dailies and weeklies
Nine books: three collections of verses, six collections of essays and other articles

Priorities
Environment, social issues, the environmental and social problems of the globalisation, the challenges of the ex-Yugoslav region, the freedom of the media