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Inaugural Meeting Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER)

Luxembourg, 28-29 April 2016

EUROFORUM BUILDING (EUFO), Ground floor meeting room

PROGRAMME

Thursday 28 April 2016

12:00 - 13:00 Registration and refreshment

Chair: John F. Ryan, Acting Director, Public Health Directorate, SANTE C

13:00 – 13:30 Welcome to the Scientific Committees’ members Jean-Claude Schmit, Director of Health, Ministry of Health, Xavier Prats Monné, Director General, Health and Food Safety Directorate General (SANTE),

13:30 - 13:50 Mission and tasks of the Scientific Committees Philippe Roux, Head of Unit, SANTE C2

13:50 – 14:10 Scientific Committees’ past and current activities and future challenges Donata Meroni, Deputy Head of Unit, SANTE C2

14:10 – 14:30 The Scientific Advice Mechanism & interaction with the Scientific Committees Henrik Wegener, Chair of the High Level Group, Scientific Advice Mechanism

14:30 - 14:50 Interaction among EU risk assessment bodies: synergies and complementarities Jukka Malm, Deputy Executive Director, European Chemicals Agency

Health and Food Safety 14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 15:40 More robust risk assessment for EU risk assessment bodies Hubert Deluyker, Scientific Adviser, European Food Safety Authority

15:40 – 16:00 The Scientific Committees at the service of the European Commission: the impact of their Opinions Carlo Pettinelli, Director, Consumer, Environmental and Health Technologies Directorate, GROW

16:00 – 16:30 Questions & answers session

16:30 – 16:45 Closure of the meeting Lydia Mutsch, Minister of Health, Luxembourg

SOCIAL EVENT under the patronage of the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg

17:00 - 17:15 Bus to drive participants to city centre to start the guided tour

18:00 - 19:30 Guided walking tour of Luxembourg’s casemates du , Grund (old part of the city) and Abbey of Neumünster

19:30 – 21:30 Cocktail Dinner at Abbey Neumünster, 28 rue Münster, L-2160 Luxembourg, cloister of the «Kräitzgank» building

Keynote Speeches: Welcome Speech Rainer Klump, President of the University of Luxembourg

Scientific advice to policy making: lessons from the remote and the recent past Michel Pletschette, Advisor for Health Sciences, SANTE B

21:30 Participants return by their own means W

Inaugural Meeting Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER)

Luxembourg, 28-29 April 2016

EUROFORUM BUILDING (EUFO), Ground floor meeting room

PROGRAMME

Friday 29 April 2016

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome coffee

JOINT PLENARY MEETING

09:30 Opening Philippe Roux, Head of Unit, SANTE C2

09:35 - 09:50 Results of the second evaluation of the Scientific Committees Alberto Bolognini, Economisti Associati

09:50 – 10:15 Adoption of the draft rules of procedure Donata Meroni, Deputy Head of Unit, SANTE C2

10:15 – 10:30 Interest, confidentiality and transparency Secretariat of the Scientific Committees, SANTE C2

10:30 - 11:00 Administrative information • Reimbursement procedures • Secretariat’s work & tasks, Circa BC platform Secretariat of the Scientific Committees, SANTE C2

11:00 – 11:15 Communication and dissemination activities Secretariat of the Scientific Committees, SANTE C2

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break Health and Food Safety PLENARY MEETINGS

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER SAFETY (SCCS) EUROFORUM building (EUFO) Ground floor meeting room 10, rue Robert Stumper, L-2557 Luxembourg

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL AND EMERGING RISKS (SCHEER) HTC building Meeting room 02/280 11, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2557 Luxembourg

11:30 - 12:30 Election of the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the Committee Chairs: Philippe Roux (SCCS) and Donata Meroni (SCHEER)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 16:30 Continuation of plenary meetings, chaired by the respective elected Chair • Information points from the Commission • Designation of the Chairs of the working groups • Mandates to be adopted • Opinions to be adopted • Ongoing Opinions • Dates for next meetings, including plenaries • AOB