{"id":5705,"date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/die-innovationsgesellschaft-und-tuv-sud-veranstalten-1-internationalen-behordendialog-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:45:11","slug":"die-innovationsgesellschaft-und-tuv-sud-veranstalten-1-internationalen-behordendialog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/die-innovationsgesellschaft-und-tuv-sud-veranstalten-1-internationalen-behordendialog\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Society and T\u00dcV S\u00dcD Organized 1st International Authorities Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"
On April 10th and 11th 2008 the \u201c1st<\/sup>\u00a0International Authorities Dialogue\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/b>with about 20 representatives from Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany took place at the headquarters of T\u00dcV S\u00dcD Industry Service GmbH in Munich. Gerhard Klein, Head of Risk Management at T\u00dcV S\u00dcD Industry Service GmbH, organiser and host of the Munich meeting declared: \u201eWe deliberately focused on the German-speaking area today, because transnational communication and dialogue should be promoted within areas of common jurisdiction.\u201c The focus of the meeting was on voluntary measures in nanotechnology risk management. The Swiss action plan, the Austrian risk dialogue and the German nano dialogue were reported on and networking activities within international working groups were discussed.The second part of the conference was characterized by presentations and workshops during which the risk management system CENARIOS\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0- developed by T\u00dcV S\u00dcD Industry Service GmbH and The Innovation Society St. Gallen - served as a practical example for discussing opportunities in risk analysis and monitoring, questions of certification, labelling and voluntary disclosure systems.For the subsequent podium discussion, the question \u201cHow to effectively assess voluntary safety measures by manufacturers\u201d served as a basis. The current state and possible solutions were discussed on the basis of the previous presentations.<\/div>\n
Voluntary measures are perceived as being of paramount importance. There is a clear need to assess their effectiveness especially under the aspect of fast increasing applications of nanoparticles in consumer and industrial products and subsequent questions of safety during their lifecycle. Though national solutions were seen as indispensable starting points, they cannot be regarded as fully adequate in transnational and globalised economies. An encompassing approach has to take this into account.<\/div>\n
Gerhard Klein concludes: \u201cOrganising this dialogue, we were pleased by the intensive discussions that, while going into detail, never lost sight of the greater picture.\u201d Prof. Georg Karlaganis from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) adds: \u201cIn Switzerland, we are on the brink of putting our Nano Action Plan into practice. Therefore we appreciate the exchange with our colleagues from neighbouring countries and the discussion of practical approaches with a risk management system like CENARIOS\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0that is already applied in practice.\u201d<\/div>\n
For Dr. Christoph Meili, CEO of the Innovation Society Ltd. and co-organiser of the conference\u00a0it is clair that this transnational-dialogue will continue: \u201cDue to the positive feedback, we will again invite for the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0authorities dialogue in the context of the upcoming NanoEurope on September 16-17, 2008 in St.Gallen.\u201d This conference will also be dedicated to the topic of voluntary measures, and there will be executive representatives from global industry, NGOs and insurers. Given the rapidly increasing spread of nanotechnology, the area of risk management can only be advanced in a transnational dialogue.<\/div>\n
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Munich, April 10.\/11. 2008: Representatives of authorities from Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany discussed at T\u00dcV S\u00dcD Industry Service GmbH in Munich the current state of voluntary safety measures in nanotechnology risk management. CENARIOS\u00ae, the world`s first certifiable, nanospecific risk management and monitoring system was also presented to the authorities and discussed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11777,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}