Workshop 2007

Seminar to raise awareness of the impact of the nutrients from laundry detergents and to discuss options to minimise their environmental impacts.

Agenda: To raise awareness of the impact of the nutrients from laundry detergents and to discuss options to minimise their environmental impacts.
Management of the Danube River Basin (Philip Weller - Executive Secretary ICPDR): Management of the Danube River Basin
Phosphates in detergents: Latest developments in the Danube River Basin: Urgent need for strengthened domestic and international measures to prevent, control and reduce significant adverse transboundary impact from the release of hazardous substances and of nutrients into the aquatic environment.
EU Legislative follow-up on: “Use of phosphates in detergents”: EU Legislative follow-up on: “Use of phosphates in detergents”
Nutrients in Danube River Basin: Many results from the project “Nutrient management in the Danube Basin and its impact on the Black Sea (“daNUbs”).
Development of an European Quantitative Eutrophication Risk Assessment of Polyphosphates in Detergents: CEEP, within the voluntary initiative HERA, presented a risk assessment report on polyphosphates in detergents.
Recommendations for the Reduction of Phosphorus in Detergents: Develop proposals for the introduction of measures (voluntary agreements?) leading to a reduction in phosphate in (laundry) detergents used across the Danube River Basin.