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Thursday 18th May

Waste Management Policy

The role of economic instruments in EU Environmental policies, Mrs Jane Feehan, EEA. (898 KB)

Deregulation or better regulation at the European level : new challenges for LRAs? Mr. J-P Hannequart, President ACR. (1.1 MB)

Waste Management Planning and Funding

A verifiable integration of the external costs at the European level, Mr. F. Radermaker, Executive secretary, ACR+ (2 MB)

Dublin Regional Waste Management Plan - Environmental Policies and Economic Instruments, Mr P.J. Rudden, RPS Consulting Engineers (IRL) (7.6 MB)

Thematic Workshop on Local Experiences - Funding Strategies at the Local Level: Workshop 1 - Creating Transparency on Waste Management Costs

Developing a common model for the assessment of waste management costs, Mrs. V. Reix, Engineer, ADEME Angers (F) (176 KB)

Assessing performances of waste management at the local level, Mrs. M. Gillet, Assistant to the General Inspector in the Walloon Office for Waste Management (B) (831 KB)

Thematic Workshop on Local Experiences - Funding Strategies at the Local Level: Workshop 2 - Requiring Citizans to Pay for Waste Management

Encouraging waste reduction and diversion through variable rate pricing for solid waste services, Prof. Dr. and Engineer. Bernd Bilitewski, Dresden University of technology (D) (2.6 MB)

Municipal experience of variable charging, Mr. P. Macken, IOK (B) (596 KB)

Best performing PAYT systems at the local level, Mr D. Hogg, Eunomia (B) (1.7 MB)

Thematic Workshop on Local Experiences - Funding Strategies at the Local Level: Workshop 3: Involving producers in financing municipal waste management

The financing of municipal waste management in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, R. Liberton, Director, VALORLUX (L) (261 KB)

Charging real waste management costs - the Green dot fees in Spain, Mr. C Martinez Orgado, Director Ejecutivo, Instituto para la Sostenibilidad de los Recursos (ISR) (E) (740 KB)

Application of waste management costs in Liege, Mr. R. Croughs, General Director Intradel (B) (965 KB)

Friday 19th May

Taxation on Products

Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes, Mr. N.A. Braathen Principal Administrator Environment Directorate, OECD (153 KB)

The application of LCA's for the calculation of tax rate on waste and products, Mrs Skovgaard, ETCRWM (120 KB)

The introduction of tax on shopping bags levy and other proposals for Ireland: an assessment - Mr. Pat Macken, Principal officer, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (296 KB)

Deposit Systems

Mandatory return and deposit system for one-way packaging in Germany, Dr Th. Rummler, BMU (D) (217 KB)

The deposit system on packaging in the Baltic States, Mr. P. Eek, Head of the Waste Management Dpt, Estonian Ministry of Environment (EST) (2.6 MB)

Financing of Waste Management and Recycling

The widespread use of the polluter-pays principle in Flanders, potential and limits, Mr. D. Wille, Ir, OVAM (B) (570 KB)

Public incentives for recycling in UK, Mr. D. Silverstone, Chief Executive, London Remade (UK) (1.4 MB)

Developing markets for recycled products: a Belgian experience, Mr. P. Delstanche, Project coordinator IRGT (B) (176 KB)

In May 2006, Dublin City Council hosted a challenging and informative International Waste Management Conference in association with ACR+.  The central theme of the conference was sharing experiences in reviewing, planning and funding of waste management and presentations were made by members throughout Europe.

A copy of the presentations from the Conference are available to download.