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INVITATION
FOR CEPA MEMBERS AND BRUSSELS STAKEHOLDERS
CEPA Certified® Launch Conference
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Radisson Blu EU Hotel, 35 Rue d’Idalie, 1050 Brussels
PROGRAMME
AM
10.00: Coffee and registration
10.30: Plenary Session for CEPA member associations and CEPA’s Brussels stakeholders
Welcome and opening speech by CEPA Chair setting the standards issue in wider
context of challenges and opportunities for the Pest Management sector
10.45: Presentation of EN16636 and CEPA Certified®, the accompanying certification
scheme:
what it says and what the rules are governing its implementation
11.15: Panel debate about the benefits of service standards moderated by Jacki Davis, editor
of many
Brussels publications and a regular broadcaster on television and radio.
Participating in the debate: Bertrand Montmoreau (CEPA Chair); Pierre Choraine
(European Commission, Director Biocides Management Group, DG SANCO) –
Representative of CENCENELEC – Dr Chris Suter (Chair Validation WG) - Dr Peter
Whittall (former Rentokil-Initial Group Scientific Advisor and currently Executive
Director, Tripod Consulting Ltd) – Rune Bratland, (Managing Director
Skadedyrservice, Norway) – Simon Forrester (CEO British Pest Control Association).
12.30: Walking lunch and close of meeting
PM
13H30 Sales Meeting for our Association delegations
16H30 Close of meeting and cocktail
The Confederation of European Pest Management Associations (CEPA) is based in Brussels where it represents
the European professional pest management industry. It unites and federates 25 national and regional
associations as well as associates from pest management service companies, manufacturers and distributors.
The European professional pest management industry plays an important role in protecting public health and
keeping homes, schools, recreational areas, hotels, food manufacturers, retail companies and others safe, pest
and disease-free.
The sector generates a turnover in Europe in excess of € 3000 million, employs more than 40.000 people in
10,000 + companies, the majority of which are small and medium sized enterprises.
Confederation of European Pest Management Associations (CEPA)
37 Seringenstraat
1950 Kraainem, Belgium
Bertrand Montmoreau, Chairman – Roland Higgins, Director General
Tel:
+32 2 731 32 81 – Mobile +32 475 98 91 98
E-mail: [email protected] - [email protected] - Web: www.cepa-europe.org