EIC Meetings and Events

EIC Sector Working Groups

 

EIC’s Working Groups are the environmental industry’s strongest and most effective forums for lobbying for the policies that will continue to drive our industry forward.

 

Below is a list of EIC Working Groups, their meetings and their work areas – please contact EIC if you have any queries (Tel: 020 7935 1675, Email: info@eic-uk.co.uk)

 

Industrial Air Pollution Group (next meeting on 17 March 2010 at 11am)

Group Chair: William Averdieck, PCME (Tel: 01480 468200, Email: williama@pcme.co.uk)

Speaker at next meeting: The next meeting will be run as an IPPC Seminar

 

·         Future regulation of LAPPC

·         Inputting into the LAPPC Process Guidance Note Review

·         Extending the Pollution Inventory to LAPPC

·         Revision of IPPC

·         Input into the Revision of BREF Notes

·         The role of the industrial air pollution control sector in meeting EU air quality targets

 

Water Management Group (next meeting on 13 April 2010 at 11am)

Group Chair: Chris Hoggart, MwH (Tel: 01494 526240, Email: Chris.Hoggart@mwhglobal.com

Speaker at next meeting: Martin Tunstall, Conservative Party Advisor on Water in the Shadow Defra Team, will attend the next meeting to give all Members the opportunity to discuss and inform Conservative Party water policy

 

·         Implementation of the Water Framework, Priority Substances and Bathing Water Directives

·         Reform of Periodic Review of Water Pricing to smooth out boom and bust and encourage innovation

·         Barriers to SUDS technology

·         Energy efficiency in the water industry

 

Contaminated Land Group (next meeting on 3 March 2010 at 11am)

Group Chair: Alistair Kean, IKM Consulting (T: 01324 878 822, E: alistair@ikmconsulting.co.uk)

Speaker at next meeting: Full details will be announced shortly

 

·         Policies to support brownfield development

·         Definition of contaminated land and risk assessment, including EIC’s Generic Assessment Criteria

·         Remediation licensing and the definition of waste

·         Incentivising brownfield development

·         Soil Framework Directive

·         Changes in the tax regime for brownfield sites

 

Scottish Group (next meeting 24 February 2009 at 11am)

Group Chair: Alistair Kean, IKM Consulting (T: 01324 878 822, E: alistair@ikmconsulting.co.uk)

Speaker at next meeting: The next meeting will be held alongside a Ministerial Reception in the Scottish Parliament with Alex Neil MSP, Housing and Communities Minister

 

·         Government support for brownfield development in Scotland

·         Definition of contaminated land

·         Financing brownfield development

·         Resolving problems with remediation licensing and the definition of waste

·         Sustainable construction, including brownfield development, waste minimisation and energy efficiency

 

Waste Resources Management (next meeting on 11 May 2010 at 1.30pm)

Group Chair: Jonathan Davies, Enviros (T: 01743 284 800, E: jonathan.davies@enviros.com)

Speaker at next meeting: Roy Hathaway, Head of Waste Regulation and Business Waste at Defra, will attend to discuss the work Defra are doing into restricting landfilling of certain materials.

 

The Group is working to secure complementary policies across the material life cycle with the overall aim of waste prevention:

·         Minimising Virgin Material Use – through, for example, sustainable procurement and promoting resource efficiency

·         Recovery and Treatment

·         Disposal – both through regulation (specific material bans on landfill) and fiscal measures (landfill tax)

 

Carbon and Environmental Management (next meeting on 10 March 2010 at 11.00am)

Group Chair: Election pending

Speaker at next meeting: Full details will be announced shortly

 

·         Legislative and regulatory drivers for carbon management, including the Carbon Reduction Commitment and policies for SMEs

·         Corporate environmental reporting

·         Sustainable Procurement

·         Carbon and Environmental Management Standards

 

Environmental Laboratories Group (next meeting on 3 March 2010 at 2.30pm)

Group Chair: Rachel Henton, Severn Trent Laboratories (T: 024 7642 1213, E: rachel.henton@stl-analytical.co.uk).

Speaker: Full details will be announced shortly

 

·         Proposals that testing to MCERTS is a requirement of planning consent

·         Further promotion of MCERTS for soils

·         Extension of MCERTS for water testing to all environmental waters

·         Extension of MCERTS to on-site sampling

·         Enforcement of Operator Self Monitoring

·         Consistency of UKAS accreditation

 

Sustainable Buildings & Energy Efficiency Group (next meeting on 17 February 2010 at 2.30pm)

Group Chair: Sean Lockie, Atkins (T: 0207 121 2121, E: sean.lockie@atkinsglobal.com)

Speaker at next meeting: A representative from the Department for Communities and Local Government will be invited to the next meeting to discuss Zero Carbon Non-Domestic Buildings.

 

·         Zero carbon homes and non-domestic buildings

·         Energy efficiency in existing buildings

·         Public Sector Building Projects

·         Financial incentives to facilitate the uptake of energy efficiency technologies in buildings, including improving the Enhanced Capital Allowances scheme

 

Transport Pollution Control Group (next meeting on 23 March 2010 at 11am)

Group Chair: Mike Galey, Eminox (T: 01427 810088, mike.galey@eminox.com)

Speaker at next meeting: Rupert Furness, Head of the Environment Policy and Delivery Division at the Department for Transport, will attend to discuss key issues for the Group, including proposals for a National Framework of Low Emission Zones.

 

·         Government support for Low Emission Zones and other measures for encouraging retrofitting pollution control technologies to vehicles

·         Proposals for a National Framework of Low Emission Zones

·         Implementation of the London Best Practice Guidance for Construction and other emission reduction measures for non-road vehicles

·         Funding for retrofit

·         The role of the transport pollution control sector in meeting EU air quality targets

 

Renewable Transport Fuels Group (next meeting to be announced for early 2010)

Group Chair: Graham Hilton (T: 01963 363 162, E: graham.hilton@greenspiritfuels.com)

Speaker at next meeting: Full details will be circulated shortly. 

 

·         Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

·         Sustainability and Carbon issues

·         Implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive

·         EU Fuel Quality Directive

 

Business & Innovation Group (next meeting to be announced)

Group Chair: Simon Guy, BRE (T: 01923 664 000, E: guys@bre.co.uk)

Speaker at next meeting: The Group’s next meeting will be a seminar in spring 2010

 

·         Tackling regulatory barriers to innovation

·         Government support for environmental technology and services R&D

·         Proposal for a web based ‘portal’ on public sources of R&D funding

 

International Business Group (next meeting to be announced)

Group Chair: Vacant (please contact EIC – danny.stevens@eic-uk.co.uk)

Speaker at next meeting: The Group’s next meeting in summer 2010 will be run as a seminar on “How to Do Business Abroad – Advice for Exporting Environmental Technologies and Services”