ECHA opens new conference centre
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) inaugurated its new conference centre on April 3. ECHA’s conference centre is one of the most modern meeting facilities in Helsinki. It will provide the venue for numerous meetings required to implement new REACH regulations.
The centre has two main conference rooms and can hold up to 200 people.
During the event, European Commission vice president, Margot Wallström, called for a new, high-level UN panel to tackle the risks posed by certain chemicals. In addition, a lively debate between 100 chemistry, toxicology and environmental sciences students took place inside the centre.
Geert Dancet, executive director of ECHA, said: “the conference rooms in the new centre are named after Margot Wallström and [Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Central region] Guido Sacconi. We had no hesitation in deciding to name the two conference rooms after the two people who were so pivotal in getting REACH onto the statute books.”
Vice president Wallström called for “a new UN panel with independent researchers to tackle the risks from chemicals in the same way that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is doing for climate change”.
