AeANET : Environmental Roadshow 2007

This program is designed to enable your managers, compliance executives, legal departments, and environmental and facilities professionals to better understand and comply with these environmental directives, as well as determine how your company can best position itself in today's changing global marketplace. To maximize your company's understanding of this important issue, we encourage you to bring your business and channel partners with you. Working together on these new requirements is essential to your company's success.

Agenda
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.	Registration, Breakfast, & Networking
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.	Welcome & Overview Ed Longanecker, Executive Director, AeA Midwest Council
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.	WEEE-Status of EU regulations that require manufacturers to finance the recycling and disposal of most electronics waste (WEEE Directive) Jean-Philippe Brisson, Senior Counsel of Global Environmental Group, Allen & Overy LLP Felise Cooper, Associate, Allen & Overy LLP Member Company Representative (invited)
9:15 - 10:00 a.m.	RoHS-Update on EU RoHS/WEEE Directives, compliance, implementation, and enforcement. Status of EU RoHS exemption review and the 2008 review of the Directive itself to include medical devices and monitoring and control instruments. Steve Andrews, UK Department of Trade & Industry DTI, Head of Unit
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Networking Break
10:15 - 12:00 a.m.	China RoHS Compliance Panel Becky Linder, Policy Advisor, AeA Beth Hulse, Global Regulatory Manager, GE Healthcare Gerald Barker, VP Environmental Initiatives, Coherent, Inc.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Global RoHS-Overview and statues of the RoHS-like legislation in other markets, such as Korea, Australia, Latin America, Taiwan and others. Michaela Muranova, Director for International Environment and Trade Policy, AeA John Plyler, Manager of Corporate Responsibility in the Supply Chain, Motorola, Inc.
1:30 - 2:00 p.m.	State Legislation/State Activities-Overview of the State legislation and potential Federal legislation Felise Cooper, Associate, Allen & Overy LLP State legislator and/or member company (invited)
2:00 - 2:15 p.m.	Break
2:15 - 3:00 p.m.	REACH Directive-Overview of the REACH regulation and all requirements for downstream users. Importers of articles into the EU will have to notify certain substances contained in these articles. Some chemicals might be subject to authorization for use in the EU. Jean-Philippe Brisson, Senior Counsel of Global Environmental Group, Allen & Overy LLP AJ Guikema, Tetra Tech
3:00 - 3:45 p.m.	Energy Efficiency and Energy-using Products-Status of EuP implementing measures that will set eco-design (mostly energy efficiency) requirements for specific product groups. Steve Andrews, UK Department of Trade & Industry DTI, Head of Unit Brenda Pineau, Tetra Tech
3:45 - 4:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks and Adjourn