AGENDA & PRESENTATIONS
"CIRCULAR ECONOMY COALITION BRIDGES THE PET VALUE
CHAIN BETWEEN EASTERN, CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE"

   10:00 – 10:15  Opening   

• • • Antonello Ciotti, PETCORE EUROPE & Constantin Damov, Circular Economy Coalition CERC 

   10:15 – 10:45  Local and EU Institutions’ view

   Subtitle: To regain EU competitiveness while aiming to increase circularity. PETCORE EUROPE role in the process as value chain association and interface with EU institutions

• • • The European Parliament vision of circularity and how the industry associations, such as PETCORE, can work together with the EU commission to achieve it (Nicolae Ștefănuță, Vice President of EU Parliament)
    • The contribution of the industry value chain to the achievement of the circularity goals in Romania (Mircea Fechet, Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests, Romania)

   10:55 – 11:55  PETCORE new organization

   Subtitle: Adapting to the market and regulatory environment evolution

• • • PETCORE organigram (Roberto Bertaggia, PETCORE EUROPE)
    • Regulatory work & Taxonomy (Antonello Ciotti, PETCORE EUROPE)
    • Standard: CEN WG 10 activities and PETCORE contribution (Raphael Jaumotte, PETCORE EUROPE)
    • TOMRA’s updates: focus on Central-Eastern European countries (Doinita Mihai, TOMRA)

   11:55 – 12:35  Platforms, guidelines and new activities

   Subtitle: Supporting innovation towards circularity

• • • EPBP (European PET Bottle Platform)/TCEP (Tray Circularity Evaluation Platform) (Argiris Dabanlis, PETCORE EUROPE)
    • TEXTILE SIG (Christian Crepet, PETCORE EUROPE)

   12:35 – 13:15  Joint Scientific Studies and Innovation Projects

   12:35 – 12:40  Developing key scientific tools and protocols for the PET industry in cooperation with the EU Commission (Raphael Jaumotte, PETCORE EUROPE)

   12:40 – 12:50  LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) (Argiris Dabanlis, PETCORE EUROPE)

   12:50 – 13:00  TWG (Thermoform Working Group)/FB (Functional Barrier Novel Technology) (Raphael Jaumotte, PETCORE EUROPE)

   13:00 – 13:05  Depolymerization, novel technology and food contact (BHET TF) (Raphael Jaumotte, PETCORE EUROPE)

   13:05 – 13:15  NIAS (Non-Intentionally Added Substances) (Zsolt Puskas, KÖR + Raphael Jaumotte, PETCORE EUROPE)

   14:25 – 14:50  Communications Updates                                 

• • • Noel Maguire, GreenGroup 

   14:50 – 15:25  Stakeholder and PETCORE Engagement

   Subtitle: Interrelationship with the EU Commission & Institutions and Networking. Data Sharing     

• • • Certification process Article 6 (1616/2022) DG Santé (Raphael Jaumotte PETCORE EUROPE)
    • Webinars and Conferences (Roberto Bertaggia, PETCORE EUROPE)
    • ICIS data (Roberto Bertaggia, PETCORE EUROPE)

   15:45 – 16:00  What’s next? & Wrap up & closure

• • • Antonello Ciotti, PETCORE EUROPE, & Constantin Damov, Circular Economy Coalition CERC