Program
Annual Conference - 16 and 17 October 2009
Topic of the conference: the IPPC-directive
- Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 concerning integrated
- Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control,
- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (integrated
Preliminary programme:
Friday, 16 October
09.00 Board meeting of the Forum
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
- Fredrik Wersäll, President of the Svea Court of Appeal in Sweden
- Luc Lavrysen, President of the Forum
10.30 General assembly of the Forum
- Luc Lavrysen, President of the Forum
11.00 Coffee
11.20 
The IPPC-directive and proposed changes (ppt, 807 KB)
- Peter Vadja, the European Commission
12.00 
Cases from the European Court of Justice (pdf, 110 KB)
- Jonas Ebbesson, Professor of the Stockholm University
12.40 Experiences from the European Court of Justice
- Pernilla Lindh, Judge of the European Court of Justice (to be confirmed)
13.00 Lunch at the Clarion Hotel Sign
14.30 Discussion on questionnaire (with coffee break at convenient time)
17.00 End of session
19.00 Reception at the Svea Court of Appeal and dinner at the Environmental Court of Appeal
(department of the Svea Court of Appeal)
Saturday, 17 October
09.00 Discussion on questionnaire, continuation from Friday (with coffee break at convenient time)
12.30 Closing comments on the questionnaire and conclusions from the discussion
12.50 Closing of the conference
- Luc Lavrysen, President of the Forum
13.00 Lunch at the Clarion Hotel Sign, and end of the conference
- Reaching BAT: Flanders' path of discharge quality standards (ppt, 311 KB) (Carole M. Billiet, Vice-president Environmental Enforcement Court of Flanders & Research Director CM&ER Ghent University)
- Permanence of permits when operations or emissions change (pdf, 84 KB) (Jan Eklund, Vaasa Administrative Court Finland)
- BAT - case by case assessment (ppt, 148 KB) (Kari Kuusiniemi)
- Access to justice of NGO's in IPPC cases in Belgium (ppt, 199 KB) (Luc Lavrysen, Judge in the Belgian Constitutional Court & Director CM&ER Ghent University)