COUNTERING WEEE ILLEGAL TRADE PROJECT Final Conference

25-26 June 2015, Lyon - France

We are pleased to invite you to the final conference of the Countering WEEE IllegalTrade (CWIT) project to present you the project’s preliminary findings. The CWITconsortium is taking on the challenge of providing a set of recommendations to the enduser community and the European Commission to assist them in countering WEEEillegal trade.

This event on 25-26 June 2015 will cover the following topics: - WEEE flows, WEEE market and WEEE actors. - Drivers of criminal e-waste activities - Recommendations aimed at tackling illegal trade of WEEE.

The CWIT conference will bring together actors involved and interested in the trade ofWEEE, in particular representatives of enforcement agencies, policy making institutionsand the electronics (recycling) industry.

Venue

INTERPOL Headquarters, 200 Quai Charles de Gaulle. Lyon. France (X.Y: 45.782081,4.848087)

INTERPOL staff will accompany visitors from security check point to the conferenceroom.

For entry into the INTERPOL premises, attendees are required to bring their officialidentification documents (passport, national ID) to the event.

Due to security control we encourage attendees to arrive to INTERPOL at 08.00.

As part of the preventive measures taken by INTERPOL to deal with the threat posedby the Ebola virus, please complete the provided survey prior to your arrival at thepremises.

The conference language is English and there will be no translation provided.

Conference admission is free of charge. Travel and accommodation costs incurred byattendees during the workshop will not be covered by the CWIT project.

Dinner

Attendees are invited to join the networking dinner on Thursday 25 June at 20.00 uponearlier registration and payment only (please make sure you have your Xingticket with you).

The dinner will take place in Lyon Marriott Hôtel Cité International, 70 Quai Charles deGaulle, 69463 Lyon, France

Please contact info@cwitproject.eu for further information.

Day One – Thursday, 25 June 2015

09.00 – 10.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 – 10.10 Opening remarks Tim Morris – INTERPOL

10.10 – 10.20 Keynote address David Jordan – Environment Agency (UK)

10.20 – 10.30 European Commission Maria Banti – European Commission

10.30 – 10.40 Basel, Rotterdam and

Stockholm Conventions

Juliette Kohler, on behalf of Rolph Antoine Payet – Basel

Convention Secretariat

10.40 – 11.30 CWIT key findings and

recommendations

Jaco Huisman – United Nations University (UNU)

Ioana Botezatu – INTERPOL

Juha Hintsa – Cross Border Research Association (CBRA)

Pascal Leroy – WEEE Forum

11.30 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00 Topic I

Collect more, prevent

leakage

(Including Q&A)

Chair: Norbert Zonneveld* – EERA

Speaker: Sébastien Partida – Eco-systèmes (FR)

Chris Slijkhuis – Müller Guttenbrunn (AT)

Per Knut Vistad – Politiet (NO)

Lucía Herreras – WEEE Forum

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch and film “The E-Waste Tragedy”, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer

14.30 – 15.45 Topic II

Trading, treatment and the

economics behind criminal

behaviour

(Including Q&A)

Chair: Katie Olley* – Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Speaker: Christopher Smith – Environment Agency (UK)

Huib van Westen – Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (NL)

Mike Anane – Freelance journalist (GH)

Jim Puckett – Basel Action Network (US)

Bogdan Ghenciu – INTERPOL

15.45 – 16.00 Group photograph at the atrium

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 17.45 Topic III

Robust and uniform legal

framework, implementation

and enforcement

(Including Q&A)

Chair: Juliette Kohler* – Basel Convention Secretariat

Speaker: Bogdan Haiducu – Unitatea Centrală de Analiză a

Informaţiilor, Ministry Internal Affairs (RO)

Marc Clément – Cour administrative d’appel de Lyon (FR)

Katja Eman – Univerza v Mariboru (SI)

Teresa Fajardo del Castillo – EFFACE (ES)

Mary Liddane – Compliance & Risks (IE)

17.45 – 18.00 Closing remarks Pascal Leroy – WEEE Forum

20.00 – 23.00 Dinner

*Member of the CWIT High Level Advisory Board

Day Two – Friday, 26 June 2015

09.00 – 09.20 Coffee

09.20 – 09.30 Opening remarks Pascal Leroy – WEEE Forum

09.30 – 10.45 Topic IV

Best practices in

enforcement and

prosecution

(Including Q&A)

Chair: Frederik Verhasselt* – Umicore

Speaker: Jürgen Braun – Polizei Bremen (DE)

Rob de Rijck – Functional Prosecution Service (NL)

Malin Folkesson – Polisen (SE)

Jean-Philippe Rivaud – Cour d’appel (FR)

Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia – UNICRI

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45 Topic V

CWIT 2020: Roadmap to

crime free WEEE trade and

a circular economy

(Including Q&A)

Chair: Stephanie Adrian* – Environment Protection Agency (US)

Speaker: Nadia Herbelot – Ministère de l’Environnement (FR)

Maria Banti – European Commission

Nancy Isarin – IMPEL

Eelco Smit* – E-Waste Solutions Alliance for Africa (Philips)

Juha Hintsa – CBRA

12.45 – 13.00 Closing remarks Pascal Leroy – WEEE Forum

David Higgins – INTERPOL

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Speakers

Tim Morris INTERPOL

David Jordan Environment

Agency

Maria Banti European

Commission

Juliette Kohler (on behalf of Rolph Antoine Payet)

Rotterdam, Stockholm and

Basel Convention

Pascal Leroy WEEE Forum

Juha Hintsa CBRA

Ioana Botezatu INTERPOL

Jaco Huisman UNU

Norbert Zonneveld

EERA

Sébastien Partida Eco-systèmes

Chris Slijkhuis Müller Guttenbrunn

Lucía Herreras WEEE Forum

Per Knut Vistad Politiet

Katie Olley Scottish

Environment Protection Agency

Jim Puckett Basel Action

Network

Christopher Smith

Environment Agency

Bogdan Ghenciu INTERPOL

Huib van Westen Inspectie

Leefomgeving and Transport

Mike Anane Freelance journalist

Bogdan Haiducu Unitatea Centrală

de Analiză a Informaţiilor,

Ministry Internal Affairs

Marc Clément Cour administrative

d’appel de Lyon

Katja Eman Univerza v Mariboru

Rob de Rijck Functional

Prosecution Service

Teresa Fajardo del Castillo

EFFACE

Malin Folkesson Polisen (SE)

Mary Liddane Compliance &

Risks

Jean-Philippe Rivaud

Cour d’appel

Frederik Verhasselt

Umicore

Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia

UNICRI

Jürgen Braun Polizei Bremen

Stephanie Adrian Environment

Protection Agency

Nadia Herbelot Ministère de

l’Environnement

Nancy Isarin

IMPEL

Eelco Smit E-waste solutions alliance for Africa

(Philips)

David Higgins INTERPOL

More information about the project at:

http://www.cwitproject.eu/

info@cwitproject.eu

Project coordinator:

Ioana Botezatu (INTERPOL)

i.botezatu@interpol.int

Scientific coordinator:

Dr. Ir. Jaco Huisman (UNU)

huisman@unu.edu

The CWIT Consortium:

Project funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº

312605.