Speaker Biographies

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Karen Ellemann

Minister of the Environment, Denmark **

Biography to appear shortly...

Heinz Zourek

Director General, DG ENTR, European Commission

After being acting Director Gerneral from September till November 2005, Heinz Zourek has been appointed Director Gerneral in DG Enterprise and Industry on 9 November 2005.
From May 2001 till August 2005 he has been Deputy Director-General in DG Enterprise and Industry.

He has been in charge of the Directorates
C – Regulatory policy,
D – Innovation policy,
E – Promotion of SMEs’ competitiveness and
H – Aerospace, security, defence and equipment.

From September 1995 to April 2001 he was Deputy Director-General of the Internal Market DG.

His main responsibilities were free movement of goods and services, public procurement, regulated professions, industrial and intellectual property rights and postal services.

He also was in charge of the infringement procedures and parliamentary affairs as horizontal task for the whole DG.
From 1993 to 1995 Heinz Zourek was a member of the College of the EFTA Surveillance Authority created by the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). His portfolio contained state aids and monopolies, public procurement and free movement of persons.
Between 1990 and 1993 he worked for the Confederation of Austrian Trade Unions as Director of the Economic Policy Department.

Mr Zourek started his professional life in the Chamber of Labour in Vienna where he became Director of the department for "External Trade and European Integration".
He was born in December 1950 in Vienna and qualified as an economist at Vienna University.

Geert Dancet

Executive Director, European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Geert Dancet became the first Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in January 2008. He was ECHA’s interim Executive Director from June 2007, the date of entry into force of the new REACH Regulation, which was adopted in December 2006.

From 2004 to 2007 he was the Head of the REACH Unit in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry. He was responsible for taking the REACH proposal through the regulatory process in the Council and the European Parliament as well as for developing and coordinating the REACH implementation strategy which included the preparations for the new Chemicals Agency.

He first joined the European Commission in 1986 and worked most of his Commission career on the competition policy field. Prior to working for the European Commission Mr. Dancet enjoyed a brief academic career and was a project manager in Colombia for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).

He studied economics, econometrics and philosophy at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Mr. Dancet is married with four children.

Hubert Mandery

Director General, European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)

Hubert Mandery is currently Director General of CEFIC. He holds a degree in Organic Chemistry and a PHD from the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He started his career at BASF in research and became Group Leader for Analytics Chromatography in the BASF Central Analytical Laboratory.

In 1993 he was appointed Director Product Safety and promoted Vice-President International Economic Relations in 2000 and later Senior Vice- President Trade Policy and General Political Issues. Hubert Mandery served as Sherpa of Eggert Voscherau, Member of the Board of BASF, during his time as President of the Board of Cefic from 2002 to 2004. From January 2007 to August 2009 he was Managing Director Business Centre South Africa and Sub-Sahara and Head of BASF South Africa.

Carl Schlyter MEP

Member, European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament (since 2004), Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Substitute member of the Committee on International Trade.

Education and professional experience: Chemical engineering specialising in biotechnology and the environment (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1987-1994). Research study Impurities in coal (Miami University, Ohio, 1989). Museum guide (1994). Political secretary of the Green Party in Stockholm City Hall (1994-1995). Assistant, European Parliament (1996). Responsible for Agenda 21 and the environment, culture and sports administration Stockholm (1997). Adviser to the Green Group in the Committee on Budgetary Control (1997-2004).

Political: Member of Swedish Green party Executive Committee (2000-2008). Swedish Green party representative in the European Green Federation (since 2001). Swedish Green party representative in the Global Greens (since 2002).

Martin Kayser

Senior Vice President of Product Safety, BASF

Born in Ludwigshafen/ Rhine, Germany
1962 – 1974 Grammar School, high school in Ludwigshafen/ Rhine
1974 – 1975 Military Service in Diez/ Lahn
1975 – 1981 Medical School, University of Heidelberg
10/1981 Degree in medicine, approbation to practice medicine
1982 Ph.D. (Dr. med.). Thesis entitled: Sensitivitaet, Spezifitaet und Richtigkeit der endoskopisch retrograden Cholangio-Pancreaticographie. Reviewed by Prof. Dr. med. B.C. Manegold, University of Heidelberg
1982 – 1984 Assitant surgeon, Heilig-Geist-Hospital, Bensheim/ Bergstrasse
1984 – 1987 Assistant physician (internal medicine), Luisenkrankenhaus, Lindenfels/
1987 Certification in Emergency Medicine
08/1987 Joined BASF as scientific staff member, Department of Toxicology, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen/ Rhine, Germany
1988 – 1996 Head Documentation, Library and Archive, Department of Toxicology, BASF SE
1995 – 1996 Project Team Leader, Existing Chemicals Program, Toxicology Risk Assessment, BASF SE
05/1996 – 05/1999 Senior Toxicology Delegate, BASF Corporation, Corporate Ecology and Safety; Southgate, Michigan, USA
05/1999 – 04/2000 Director, Drug Safety Evaluation, Bayer Corporation West Haven, Conneticute, USA
04/2000 – 04/2002 Global Head Toxicology International, Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany
04/2002 – 12/2003 Global Head Preclinical Development and Toxicology, Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany
01/2004 - Head Product Safety, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen/ Rhine, Germany

Graham Willmott

Head of Unit, Chemicals - REACH, DG ENTR, European Commission

1982: Degree in Physics from Bristol University

1983-1995: Nuclear Electric/British Energy. Engineer in various U.K. nuclear power stations

1995-2000: European Commission, DG Environment. Responsible for development of assistance programmes to nuclear regulatory authorities in Central and Eastern Europe

2000-2004: European Commission, DG Environment. Member of team that drafted the REACH White Paper, subsequently leader of team that drafted the Commission proposal.

2004- July 2008: European Commission, DG Enterprise. Deputy Head of REACH Unit.

July 2008 – date: European Commission, DG Enterprise. Head of REACH Unit.

Lena Ek MEP

Member, European Parliament

Lena Ek is a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 where she represents the Swedish Centre Party and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Ms Ek is the ALDE coordinator on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She is also a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and on the Committees on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Ms Ek has handle many important dossiers, she is now the ALDE spokeswoman on the Europe 2020 strategy and was the rapporteur for the REACH regulation on chemicals in the ITRE Committee.

Marie-Noëlle Blaude

Member, United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally Harmonised System, WIV-ISP

Since January 2002, I am working as regulatory toxicologist in the division Toxicology of the Scientific Institute for Public Health (Brussels). One of my tasks in this division is the scientific support of the Belgian Competent Authority for REACH. I am also involved in different Partner expert groups at ECHA for the redaction of guidance documents on the CLP and the REACH regulations. I contribute to the Belgian CLP Helpdesk as expert on classification (health), labelling, precautionary statements and safety data sheets.

Since 2009, I am participating as head of delegation to the activities of the sub-committee of Experts on the GHS.
I am also member of the Steering Committee of the Belgian Society of Toxicology (Beltox).

I was previously member of the Technical Committee for Classification and Labelling of dangerous substances, establishing recommendations for classification and labelling, in accordance with Directive 67/548/EEC and Member of the Stakeholder Expert Group (SEG) Reach Implementation Project 3.6 for the CLP.

I am graduated as a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Liège, Belgium in 1982 and followed complementary studies in breeding and pathology of laboratory animals.

In 1983, I started my career as assistant in Toxicology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine where I started my first steps in toxicology by conducting in vivo toxicology studies, performing research on in vitro models and later on environmental pollution.

In 1991 I joined the Scientific Institute of Public Health where I was responsible in Belgium for the Elaboration of International Chemical Safety Cards in the context of the International Programme on Chemical Safety.

Axel Singhofen

Adviser on Health and Environment Policy, Greens/EFA, European Parliament

Adviser on Health and Environment Policy, Greens/EFA, European Parliament

Since 2001, Axel Singhofen is working for the Greens/European Free Alliance in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament as their Advisor on Public Health and Environment Policy. He drafts and coordinates the political and legislative work of the Greens/European Free Alliance concerning health policy as well as chemicals and waste policies.

From 1996 - 2000, he was the EU Toxics Advisor for Greenpeace International in the European Unit in Brussels. He was in charge of the political work with the EU institutions in the area of waste and chemicals policy and represented Greenpeace at UN, OECD, EU and Member State level. He pushed for a revision of chemicals' legislation at EU level since 1996 and actively participated in discussions about the revision during all his time with Greenpeace.

MA in Biology, he has worked as a Scientific Manager at the "Society for the Promotion of LCA Development" (SPOLD) in Brussels (1995) to develop a European common format for life-cycle inventory data.

Kevin Bradley

President, Nickel Institute

Dr Bradley is an environmental scientist with more than 25 years experience in environment, regulatory and public policy related positions with a range of public and private organizations at international and national level. He is currently President of the Nickel Institute, the global representative organisation of the nickel industry.

Erwin Annys

Director, REACH, CEFIC

Erwin Annys obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the university of Ghent, where he graduated on nitrosamines in rubber. He worked sixteen years in the chemical industry in different positions in production, technical services, research and development and regulatory affairs. In 2001 with the publication of the white book, he was confronted for the first time with the new chemical legislation on chemical substances, REACH. Since then he follows this very closely and this legislation brought him to the Belgian federation of the chemical industry and the life sciences, Essenscia in 2004, where he was responsible for product and innovation policy. Since 2008 he is working for Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council where he is director REACH/ Chemicals policy. He is an observer in the Competent Authorities Meeting for REACH and Classification and Labelling, as well in different Committees of ECHA.

Patrick Murphy

Policy Officer - REACH, Endocrine Disruptors and Mixture Toxicity, DG ENVI , European Commission

Patrick Murphy has a Bsc Chemistry and Biology, and a PhD in Biology. He joined Commission in 1986 and has worked on chemicals, biotechnology, vehicle emissions, fuel quality, atmospheric pollution, water policy, nature and biodiversity as well as spending 3 years in the EU delegation in Beijing.

Ellen Dhein

Environment and Sustainbility, Bayer

Ellen Dhein studied Biology and Religion for a teaching profession at the University of Cologne. She started her professional career for the Bayer AG in 1989 as an expert for ecological surveys. After her parental leave she continued her work for Bayer in 1999 in the corporate department for Product Stewardship by compiling and analyzing reports with regard to product safety. Since 2002 Ellen Dhein is responsible for the topic “endocrine disruptors”, which is currently assigned to the Corporate Center Environment & Sustainability within the Bayer AG.

Besides leading the internal working group on this issue she works closely with several associations such as the VCI and Cefic to establish an evolving dialogue with relevant stakeholders. She is head of the CEFIC endocrine working group and the VCI advocacy team. Additionally she leads the CEFIC group a combination effects of chemicals since early 2010.

Parallel to the endocrine disruptors issue she is also in charge for the Bayer group wide topic children’s health. Here she drives the communication between internal and external stakeholders and participates in several conferences and congresses of the German Government, the EU Commission and the WHO Europe.

Steffi Friedrichs

Director-General, Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA)

Dr Steffi Friedrichs is the Director-General of the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA), globally the only industries-focused trade association in nanotechnology with registered companies in the UK (NIA ltd) and in Belgium (international level, NIA aisbl).

In this capacity, she has represented the nanotechnology industries through provision of expert advice and evidence to numerous national and international expert committees and regulatory organizations on topics ranging from regulatory-/safety-issues to environmental and societal benefits of nanotechnologies, educational-/skills-requirements for nanotechnologies to commercialization-/business-issues related to the advancement of nanotechnologies to general policy considerations for emerging technologies. She initiated several in-depth programmes in support of the ongoing advancement of nanotechnologies and participated in many stakeholder debates and citizen’s engagement panels.

Leo Appelman

Managing Director, ReachCentrum

Leo Appelman joined ReachCentrum as the Managing Director in July 2007. Previously, he worked for Cefic on nanomaterials, PBTs and POPs and risk assessment for existing chemicals. He joined Cefic after working for nearly 17 years in a global paint manufacturing company dealing with all Health, Safety and Environmental issues, from substance evaluation to HSE due diligence for acquisitions and divestments. He was the REACH facilitator for the Coating business. He was the head of the HSE department servicing the business units worldwide in their marketing approach. He was also involved in the registration of biocidal products and notifications for new chemical substances. Leo is a toxicologist from profession.

Lisette van Vliet

Toxics Policy Adviser, Health and Environment Alliance

Lisette van Vliet is Toxics Policy Advisor for Health and Environment Alliance, and works in Brussels, the seat of the European Union. She holds a PhD. in international relations and environmental studies from the Australian National University in Canberra. Prior to working on Toxics, she worked in international forest politics, mainly on forestry and timber certification and wood purchasing policy, with environmental NGOs and a US environmental management consultancy. Lisette van Vliet commenced working on Toxic Chemicals for the International Chemical Secretariat, Health Care Without Harm Europe, and the Health and Environment alliance in 2005. Since that time, she has been following REACH, the new EU chemicals legislation, and other EU legislation and policy governing harmful chemicals such as phthalates, mercury and endocrine disruptors.

Fulvia Rafaelli

Deputy Head of Unit, Chemicals - REACH, European Commision

Fulvia Raffaelli graduated in Contemporary History, European Political Affairs and Political Science. Assistant of a Member of the European Parliament since 1999, she joined the European Commission on 1st of January 2002 as responsible for Waste management and Recycling related issues in the Enterprise Directorate General. In March 2005, she became policy advisor in the REACH unit with a specific responsibility on the legislative processes follow-up (REACH and CLP). She is now Deputy Head of the REACH Unit, responsible in particular for the work on the Authorisation and Restriction processes and for the 2012 REACH review.

Tony Musu

Advisor, European Trade Union Confederation

Tony Musu represents European workers in the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

Before his current position in the Research Institute of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUI/ETUC) he spent five years in the industry dealing with the safety assessment of chemicals.

Since 2003, he has been participating on behalf of ETUC in various REACH-related Commission working groups. He is also a member of the Ad Hoc WG on Chemicals within the Luxembourg Advisory Committee on Health & Safety at work.

He is a Chemical Engineer by education and he holds a PhD in Science from the Pasteur Institute in Paris

Jerker Ligthart

Project Coordinator, ChemSec

Jerker Ligthart holds a M.Sc. in Chemical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He joined ChemSec in 2007 with experience from the private sector, which included work at Sweden’s largest oil refinery as well as positions as surveyor and laboratory coordinator at SGS for several years. During his time at ChemSec he has been responsible for the development of the SIN List, developing it a scientifically credible tool for the identification of SVHCs.

Christian Schaible

Senior Policy Officer - Industrial and Chemicals Policies, European Environmental Bureau

Christian Schaible joined the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest federation of environmental citizens’ organisations, since May 2008. Working in the EU Policy Unit, he is coordinating the organisation’s advocacy work in the areas of EU chemicals (e.g. REACH implementation) and industrial policy (e.g. Industrial Emissions Directive, Seveso III Directive). His academic background is in international law, having studied in Cairo, Strasbourg, Paris, and Oslo. He holds two Masters in Environmental Law (University of Montpellier and Limoges). He previously had roles in the European Commission’s Energy DG and in a Brussels-based industry group working on the promotion of renewable energy sources.

Cándido García Molyneux

Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Cándido García Molyneux is a Spanish of counsel in the Brussels office of Covington & Burling. His practice focuses on EU environmental law, Spanish food and drug law, and international trade law. He advises clients on legal issues concerning environmental product regulation, chemical law, waste management, emissions trading, renewable energies, energy efficiency, Spanish medicines and cosmetics rules, and international trade law and non-tariff trade barriers. Mr. García Molyneux was actively involved in the legislative process resulting in the REACH Regulation for several companies and trade associations, and advises clients on the impact of the new regime, including in particular the implications for downstream uses of chemicals. He was also very much involved in the legislative process that led to the revision and amendment of the ETS Directive. Chambers Europe (2009) note that "Mr Garcia Molyneux is fluent in all aspects of EC Environmental law." According to Chambers, "his work in relation to REACH and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme marks him out as an extremely promising member of the team."

Katarina Maaskant

Manager, EU Affairs, IKEA

Katarina Maaskant has been Manager IKEA EU Affairs for the past three years and is responsible for following legislation such as the WEEE directive, REACH, green transports, illegal logging, certain implementing measures for the Energy-using Products Directive and the Sustainable Consumption and Production package.

Prior to her appointment in IKEA, Mrs. Maaskant was Policy Advisor in the European Parliament (2002-2006), Political Editor for a regional paper, Östersunds-Posten, writing columns and articles (2004) and Policy Advisor in the Swedish Parliament (1999-2002).

Sylvie Maurer

Safety and Environment Senior Policy Officer, BEUC

Sylvia Maurer is the Senior Policy Officer for Safety and Environment at BEUC, the European Consumers’ Organisation. BEUC represents 44 independent national consumer associations from 31 European countries. The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in the development of all Community policies.

Sylvia is working for the consumer movement for over six years and joined BEUC in December 2007. In her role, Sylvia has relevant experience in the area of sustainable consumption and production including Eco-design and Energy Labelling and on safety issues such as chemicals in products and on nanotechnologies. She represents BEUC in Commission working groups and at conferences, seminars and committees such as the General Product Safety Committee, the Consumer Safety Network, the Toy Safety Expert Group, the Cosmetics Working Group and the Retail Forum. Moreover, she leads BEUC’s Safety Team and supervises EU Commission funded projects on the EU Ecolabel scheme and the implementation of the EU Ecodesign Directive.

Sylvia provides intelligence, information and advice to BEUC’s member organisations in the area of environment and safety. She studied Political Science and European Studies at the Universities of Bonn, Bradford and Berlin.

Vito Buonsante

Staff Attorney, ClientEarth

Vito A. Buonsante, is Health and Environment lawyer in ClientEarth. ClientEarth is an organisation of activist environmental lawyers committed to securing a healthy planet. ClientEarth is based in London, Brussels and Warsaw. Vito leads ClientEarth's work on toxics and in particular on the implementation of REACH. Before joining ClientEarth in 2010, Vito worked as an Environment, Health and Safety expert in Brussels and in the USA assisting industry in complying with EU chemicals legislation. He also worked in the environmental law programme of the the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) an intergovernmental organisation based in Hungary.

René van Sloten

Executive Director - Industrial Policy, CEFIC

René van Sloten (1956) read socio-economic history at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, followed by post-graduate studies in international relations at the Institute for International Relations Clingendael in The Hague and in European public administration at the College of Europe in Bruges. He joined the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) in 1990 as sector group manager, taking up the position of Head of Trade Policy in 1995. He is presently Executive Director Industrial Policy and as such dealing with competitiveness and industrial policy related topics, trade and business impact of new chemicals policy. He is also closely involved in international trade negotiations affecting the chemical industry.

Geraint Roberts

Associate Editor, ChemicalWatch

Geraint Roberts is Associate Editor of Chemical Watch. He writes and oversees news from outside Europe and the features published monthly in its monthly briefing. He has worked full time as a journalist since leaving university first for the industry magazine European Chemical News (now ICIS Chemical Business), then as Deputy Editor for the UK's foremost environmental journal The ENDS Report. In his writing career Geraint has covered a diverse array of issues ranging from chemicals policy and hazardous waste management to corporate sustainability strategy, integrated product policy and life cycle assessment.

Martina Bianchini

Vice President EU Government Affairs and Public Policy, Dow Chemicals

Martina Bianchini is Vice President of EU Government Affairs & Public Policy for Dow and the Head of the company’s EU Liaison Office in Brussels Belgium. In this capacity, she is shaping EU industry advocacy strategies on Dow’s priority areas and ensures the consistent adoption of a transatlantic and global approach to chemicals management policies.

A part of this strategy is to create an enabling policy framework for sustainable development and help the company achieve its 2015 sustainability goals in the areas of chemicals and health, sustainable chemistry and Advanced manufacturing. She is the chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Green Economy Task Force which develops global business and industry positions on Green Economy into the UN process.

Prior to joining Dow in 2001, Martina worked 14 years in the private sector, both in the US and Europe on different assignments in Environmental, Regulatory, Public and Government Affairs and sustainability.

Martina is a board member of SusChem, the European Union Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry; European Partners for the Environment, a former board member of Corporate Social Responsibility Europe and a member of the advisory council of the Kings Center for Risk Management. In 2008, she was awarded the title of Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary European Studies (iCES) of the European Business School London.

Martina holds a bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Trier in Germany and a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences/Toxicology from Louisiana State University, USA.

Dan Baxter

Senior Vice President & Partner, Fleishman Hillard

Dan Baxter is Senior Vice President & Partner in Fleishman-Hillard Brussels. He leads the office’s sustainability team, and is European Co-Chair of Fleishman-Hillard’s global sustainability practice group. He counsels clients across a broad variety of sectors, including environment, chemicals, energy, transport, and retail. His expertise lies in helping businesses understand and shape over their global operating and regulatory environment, and client work covers a wide range of public affairs, communications and reputation management activities. Mr. Baxter has also worked for Fleishman-Hillard in Toronto, Mumbai and Beijing. Prior to joining Fleishman-Hillard, he was a political activist in Canada.

Steffen Wengert

Head of Chemical Products Division, Swiss Federal Office for Public Health

Steffen Wengert studied Chemistry at University Stuttgart and ETH Zurich. After 4 years research and lectureship in the field of solid state chemistry at ETH Zurich he joined the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health in 2001. Since 2008 he is head of the Chemical Products Division which is in charge for the Swiss Chemicals Law and its enforcement.

Jürgen Vogelgesang

Policy Officer, Product and Service Safety, DG SANCO, European Commission

Jürgen Vogelgesang works in Brussels, Belgium, at the European Commission, Directorate General for Health and Consumers, Product and Service Safety Unit. He is working on all risk assessment issues of non-food consumer products, in particular chemicals, of the Unit, which inter alia manages the European Rapid Alert System for Dangerous Consumer Products (RAPEX). He is also in charge of initiatives of the Unit on fire safety, such as self-extinguishing cigarettes or flame retardants, and follows-up on nanomaterials. Previously he belonged to the European Commission’s Directorate General for Environment developing the REACH chemicals legislation, and before that he worked in Directorate General Research. He is a food chemist by education and has a related PhD, he started his professional career in the market surveillance of food.

Henrik Søren Larsen

Head of the Chemicals Division, Danish EPA

Henrik Søren Larsen has a bakground as a marine biologist and has a long experience in environmental risk assessment of chemicals. He was heavily involved in the preparation of REACH and had the responsibility for formulating the Danish position during the REACH negociations.Since 2008 he has been Head of the Chemicals Division of the Danish Environmental Protections Agency.

Shunmugam Ganesan

Vice President - Corporate, Excel Crop Care Ltd, Chairman of the International Treaties Expert Committee, Indian Chemical Council *

Biography to be added shortly...

Representative

name to be confirmed, US Mission to the EU

David Piper

Deputy Head, Chemicals Branch, United Nations Environment Programme

Biography to be added shortly...

Charlott Jönsson

REACH project manager, Perstorp

Product Safety Manager at the Perstorp Group since 2004.

Assistant REACH Project manager since 2007 and REACH Project Manager since 2010.

The product safety group are responsible to monitor and implement worldwide legislation within the Product Safety area.

We are also responsible to put it into the management system of Perstorp on a global basis.

We also support the sites when they have to take actions to comply with new legislation and audit to follow up.

Specialist functions in the Product Safety group are toxicology, ekotoxicology, occupational hygiene, analytics and product safety legislations.

Before I joined Perstorp I had a similar job at a company making rust prevention products for the automotive industry.