Regulatory Summit USA 20194-5 NOVEMBER I WASHINGTON, DC, USA

As part of Chemical Watch’s series of Global Regulatory Summits, which have been held annually in Europe, Asia and North America since 2013, this series of events have been designed to provide the regulatory community with annual updates on important global developments in chemicals control legislation.

With a focus on North America on day one, this year’s US Summit will provide invaluable updates on emerging federal regulatory trends in North America, including:

On day two, the programme will provide essential updates from around the world, including Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Now in its seventh year, Regulatory Summit USA focuses on the latest developments in global chemicals regulation, providing an in-depth focus on regulatory updates and practice from the US, Europe, Asia and around the world.

Why attend?

Who should attend?

• Regulatory affairs managers• Compliance managers• Risk assessment managers• Product registration managers• EHS professionals• Government regulators• Toxicologists• Product stewards• Service providers• Lawyers• Consultants

Expert panel – Learn about the latest regulatory challenges facing the safe management of chemicals.

Current thinking – Meet regulators from Europe and Asia without needing to travel outside of the USA.

Networking – Make new industry contacts.

Up-to-date information – Pick up practical compliance tips and get completely up to date with emerging regulatory challenges.

• TSCA• State regulatory trends• OSHA harmonisation• Food contact notification labelling

• Non-traditional markets• CBI and data sharing• Transparency in the supply chain• Enforcement in the US and Canada

Day one -

09:00 Registration

Session 1: TSCA

Chair: Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell PC, USA

09:30 Welcome Chemical Watch

09:40 Keynote address: Global Regulatory Trends Alexandra Dunn, Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical

Safety and Pollution Prevention U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA

Darrell Boverhof, Director of Global Toxicology and Product Regulatory Services for the Americas, Dow, USA

Liz Hitchcock, Acting Director, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, USA

10:10 TSCA at 3: A panel session• Status of Section 5 new chemical review process:

improvements, new interpretations; on-going challenges

• Risk evaluations under TSCA Section 6: emerging issues, recurrent themes, and on-going challenges

• OCSPP’s improved organizational capacity, enhanced transparency, and on-going institutional challenges

• TSCA Section 4: is there mandatory testing in our future?

Panel:

Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell PC, USA

Robert M. Sussman, Counsel, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, and Principal, Sussman and Associates, USA

Shannon Gainey, Technical and Regulatory Director, REACH24H, USA

Rose Passarella, Senior Manager, Regulatory Chemicals Group, Health, Environmental & Regulatory Services (HERS), Intertek, USA

10:55 Q&A

11:10 Refreshments

Session 2: Emerging state regulatory trends

Chair: Nhat Nguyen, Chief Analyst, Chemical Watch, USA

11:25 The myth of preemption: State bans are alive and well Nhat Nguyen, Chief Analyst, Chemical Watch, USA

11:55 Current state-level issues: A panel discussion including Q&A Matthew Lenz, Director, State Government Affairs, the Toy

Association, USA

Ken Zarker, Pollution Prevention Section Manager, Washington State Department of Ecology, USA

Rose Passarella, Senior Manager, Regulatory Chemicals Group, Health, Environmental & Regulatory Services (HERS), Intertek, USA

12:35 Lunch

Please choose from one of two break-out sessions for the afternoon;

Session 3 & 4: Other regulatory and non-regulatory developments in the USA and Canada

or Session 5: CBI/Data sharing/Supply chain transparency

Session 3: Other regulatory and non-regulatory developments

Chair: Rose Passarella, Senior Manager, Regulatory Chemicals Group, Health, Environmental & Regulatory Services (HERS), Intertek, USA

13:30 Occupational Safety and Health Administration harmonisation

• OSHA’s alignment with GHS through its Hazard Communication Standard

• OSHA’s efforts in maintaining alignment with GHS

• OSHA’s international efforts – this will include working with trade partners and at the UN subcommittee

Maureen Ruskin, Deputy Director, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, USA

14:00 An Update on Issues in FDA’s Food Contact Substance (FCS) Program

• Update on OFAS/DFCS realignment

• Update on electronic submissions to OFAS

• Update on administrative and technical issue on FCSs

Dr Allan Bailey, Director, Chemistry Review Brand, Division of Food Contact Substances, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA

14:30 Emerging non traditional markets• Biostimulant regulation: state and federal challenges to both

regulators and industry.

• Progress at EPA: Guidance

• Congress and Farm Bill

• USDA report to Congress

• Next steps

MONDAY

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Emerging federal regulatory trends in North America

David Beaudreau, DC Legislative and Regulatory Services, USA

15:00 Q&A

15:15 Refreshments

15:30 Panel Discussion: Ingredient transparency and transparency in the supply chain Speakers include:

Amy Ziff, Founder and Executive Director, Made Safe, USA

Darrell Boverhof, Director of Global Toxicology and Product Regulatory Services for the Americas, Dow, USA

Jim Jones, Executive Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Industry Relations, HCPA, USA

Session 4: Developments from Canada

16:15 Updates from Canada and the Chemicals Management Plan Vesna Guzina, Head, Bilateral Engagement, Environment and

Climate Change Canada

16:45 Canada’s approach to promote transparency in chemicals management Dan Bastien, Associate Director - Chemicals Group, Health,

Environmental & Regulatory Services (HERS) , Intertek, Canada

17:15 Enforcement in the US and Canada Hannah Rogers, Executive Director, Environmental

Enforcement Directorate, Enforcement Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

Greg Sullivan, Director- Waste and Chemical Enforcement Division, Office of Civil Enforcement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OECA, USA

17:45 Q&A

18:00 Close of day one / drinks reception

Day one -

Break-out session Session 5: Confidential Business Information, data sharing and supply chain transparency

13:30 CBI issues and TSCA• Section 14 of TSCA

• Substantiation of CBI claims and impact of the D.C. Circuit decision in EDF v. EPA

• EPA review of CBI claims

• The intersection between Section 14 of TSCA and the Freedom of Information Act

• Judicial remedies to prevent CBI disclosure

Herb Estreicher, Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP, USA

14:00 CBI issues under REACH Jean Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown, Belgium

14:30 Dealing with supply chain transparency• What purpose does transparency serve and what are the

drivers for its implementation?

• What are the barriers to achieving supply-chain transparency and how might they be overcome?

• How does the information captured help in reducing hazard and risk within supply-chains?

Paul Ashford, Managing Director, Anthesis, UK

15:00 Q&A

15:15 Refreshments

15:30 Data sharing issues in Europe Simon Tilling, Partner, Burges Salmon LLP, UK

16:00 Selling chemicals on the internet: Dealing with CBI issues

• Ways to void or waive CBI

• Conflicting chemical disclosure regimes

• California Prop 65 and California S.B. 258

• New York, Vermont, and other states

• Walmart’s chemical disclosure policy

• OSHA Hazard Communication

• FIFRA requirements

• Federal legislation

Erik Baptist,, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP, USA

16:30 Q&A/panel session

17:00 Close

17:00 Drinks resception

MONDAY

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Emerging federal regulatory trends in North America

Session 1 - South America

09:00 Regulatory developments from Latin America Daniel Rios, Hazmat Compliance Manager LATAM, Givaudan,

Argentina and

Elisa Coghlan, Project Coordinator, Chemical Management and Residues Programme, Abequian, Argentina

09:45 Q&A

Session 2 - Europe

Chair: Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown, Brussels

10:00 ECHA priorities in 2020 and beyond• ECHA strategic priorities 2019-2022

• Data quality:

• Outcome of the 2nd report from the Commission on the operation of REACH

• Main findings from ECHA through the ten years of performing compliance checks

• ECHA-Commission Evaluation Joint Action Plan – “Ensuring compliance of REACH registrations”

Christel Musset, Director of Hazard Assessment, ECHA, Finland

10:30 The ECHA Database for SVHCs Bo Balduyck, Project Coordinator, ECHA, Finland (Video

presentation)

10:45 Q&A

11:00 Refreshments

11:15 The Future of REACH Authorization and Restrictions• Impact of recent positions by the Court of Justice, the

Parliament and the Council on Authorisation

• Review of recent restriction proposals: Scope, demonstration of unacceptable risk, grouping

• ·Navigating the challenging waters of REACH risk management measures

Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown, Brussels

11:45 Brexit and the possibility of UK REACH• BREXIT Status and entry into force of UK REACH

• Grandfathering of registrations and authorisations

• Downstream User Import Notifications

• Timelines

• UK Only Representatives

Frederik Johansen, Partner, REACHLaw, Finland

12:15 A UK Lawyers Perspective on Brexit and UK Chemicals Regulation: Is the UK prepared?

Simon Tilling, Partner, Burges Salmon LLP, UK

12:45 Q&A

13:00 Lunch Please choose from one of two break-out sessions for the afternoon;

Session 3: Asia

or Session 4: Developments elsewhere in the world

Session 3 - Asia

Chair: Jeffrey Hafer, Senior Regulatory Scientist, Knoell USA

14:00 China: New developments• The new revisions to MEP Order 7

Weiwei Luo, Of Counsel, Beveridge & Diamond PC, USA

14:30 South Korea: K-REACH and K-BPR• K-REACH and K-BPR: Regulatory Overview

• K-REACH: What is next after pre-registration?

• K-BPR: What are the challenges and what to expect in the near future?

Sookie Hong, Sr. Manager, Asia Pacific, Verisk 3E, USA

15:00 Taiwan Jeffrey Hafer, Senior Regulatory Scientist, Knoell USA

15:30 Q&A

15:45 Refreshments

16:00 Elsewhere in Asia including Malaysia and The Philippines• Malaysia: CLASS Regulation and current update for

Hazardous Chemical Legislation

• Philippines: Chemical Management Regulation and the Latest trends in the PICCS and PMPIN Process

• Thailand: Updates on Hazardous Substance Act

Piyatida Pukclai, Regional Business Development Director (Asia-Pacific), Dr. Knoell Consult Thai Co. Ltd., Thailand

16:30 Q&A

16:45 Close of Summit

TUESDAY

5NOVEMBER2019

Day two - Developments from around the world

Break-out session Session 4: Developments elsewhere in the world

Chair: Nhat Nguyen, Chief Analyst, Chemical Watch, USA

14:00 Middle East Michael Wenk, Senior Regulatory Consultant, Bergeson and

Campbell, USA

14:30 Eurasia REACH• Eurasian Economic Union Technical Regulation on safety

of chemical products (041/2017) – main requirements and enforcement time frame

• Registration of chemicals and Chemical Inventory

• Notification and Restrictions

Emilia Vassileva, Sr. Eurasian Regulatory Specialist, 3E Regulatory Research and Consulting Services, USA

15:00 Turkey REACH Tuğçe Gizem Gurgleroglu, Chief Consultant, REACH Global

Services, Turkey

15:30 Q&A

15:45 Refreshments

16:00 Australia Nhat Nguyen, Chief Analyst, Chemical Watch, USA

16:30 Regulatory developments from Africa Deirdre Penfold, Executive Director, Chemical and Allied

Industries Association, South Africa

17:00 Q&A

17:15 Close

TUESDAY

5NOVEMBER2019

Day two - Developments from around the world

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