Practical International ETV Cooperation

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Christian Grøn, DHI Practical International ETV Cooperation Final AdvanceETV Conference, Brussels, May 2012

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A presentation from the final AdvanceETV conference in Brussels May 22-24 providing a summary of options for international cooperation on environmental technology verification.

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Christian Grøn, DHI

Practical International ETV Cooperation

Final AdvanceETV Conference, Brussels, May 2012

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The global challenges require new technologies in operation

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What are the barriers?

Recognised performance

label

Purchaser caution

National and regional

legislation

Lists of approved

technologies

Lack of documen-

tation

Trade barriers

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What performance label?

China

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One performance label!

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How to get there?

ETV ISO

China

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Practical ways of cooporating – towards one performance label• One European performance label

– The EU ETV pilot programme

• Building confidence and mutual understanding– International Working Group (IWG ETV) for programme

owners– Bilateral cooperations

• Sharing knowledge– Virtual forum for verification and test bodies

• Verification cooperation– Co- and joint verifications

• Making methods of ETV work converge– Preparation of an international ETV standard

• Disseminating ETV– ASEAN ETV initiative

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ASEAN ETV Initiative

• Objective is to promote cooperation on ETV within the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

• Driven by ETV Philippines

• ASEAN participation at 4th International ETV Forum and the International Working Group on ETV Meeting, November 2009, in Manila, Philippines

• ASEAN ETV Workshop 2010o Participation of seven ASEAN member states (participation by

Malaysia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and the ASEAN Secretariat based in Indonesia)

• DANETV ETV Philippines proposal in preparation

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Co- and joint verifications

Vendor Application Involved ETV programmes

Sorbisense Measurement of volatile organic contaminants in groundwater

NOWATECH, US EPA ETV

HACH-LANGE Toxicity testing of effluent wastewater

DANETV, US EPA ETV, ETV Canada

Colifast Automatic detection of total coliform

bacteria or Escherichia coli in

drinking water

US EPA ETV, DANETV, ETV Canada

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Contributors co- and joint roadmaps

ETV programmes ETV operators Other organizations

EU ETV pre-programme DHI (Denmark) European Com mittee for Standardiza tion

DANETV (Denmark) IVL (Sweden) Institute for Prospective Technologi cal Studies (EU)

US EPA ETV Tecnalia (Spain) Environment Agency (United Kingdom)

Canadian ETV program Battelle (United States) HACH-LANGE (Germany)

ETV Korea OCETA/Bloom (ETV Canada) DECHEMA (Germany)

ETV Japan   Deltares (Nether lands)

ETV Philippines   Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (Poland)

    et environ ment and technology (Germany)

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Virtual ETV operator network – one approach • Objective

o Enhance cooperation between the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) operators of the World

o An increased number of co- and joint verifications o Exchange information on vendors and technologies with ETV potentialo Extended cooperation between the existing operators

• Intended participantso ETV operators

• One formo Monthly virtual meeting based upon Skype or WebEx. o Agenda

− Mutual information on on-going verifications

− Exchange of data of technology candidates for cooperation

− Conveying of contact information between technology owner and ETV operator on cooperation candidates

− Information on preparation of generic verification protocols and other tools of mutual interest and status of the ETV programmes

• We invite all ETV operators to participate, registration by e-mail til [email protected]

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Bilateral Cooperations

• Exchange of information on organization and operation of ETV programmes– e.g. NOWATECH, the precursor of DANETV, learning from the US ETV and ETV Canada

programmes through meetings and visits

• Dissemination of verification protocols and reports and the inherent methodologies– e.g. the US ETV publication on the web

• Verification cooperation– e.g. co- and joint verifications performed by DANETV, the US and the Canadian ETV

programmes, and translation/transfer of verifications from Japan to the Philippines

• Enhancing ETV interests through participation of other ETV programmes in meetings and discussions

– e.g. DANETV participating in an ETV Philippines event, other ETV programmes represented at events organised by Advance ETV in support of the EU ETV

• Specific cooperation projects, – e.g. ETV Philippines and DANETV proposing to ASEAN to develop a model for cooperation

between ETV programmes in industrialised and developing countries, and DANETV preparing cooperation models for use in co- and joint verification with China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines

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Bilateral cooperations – the essentials

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Summary of options for ETV cooperation

EU USA Canada China Korea Japan Philip-pines

Co- and joint

List access

Bilateral coope-ration

Net-working

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Conclusions

• ETV is expanding globally

• Initiatives for bilateral, regional and global cooperation are expanding

• Tools and methods are being developed and shared to an increasing extent

• The challenge is NOT to end up with: verified everywhere to be accepted globally

• Opportunities for cross-border verifications do exist – seize them to expand your markets!

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Thank you for your attention

For more information visit

www.etv-denmark.com

- or contact Christian Grøn

[email protected]

‘Verify OnceAccepted Everywhere’

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Virtual ETV operator network – how?• Objective

o What?

• Intended participantso Who?

• Formo How? o Agenda

− Items?

• How to proceed?