Co-operation between Vodokanal and LSBP to consult and have action to achieve Reach level in laboratory of Vodokanal

1. Name and title of the person who formulated the commitment

Mari Pantsar-Kallio , Director (Cleantech)

2. Name of the committing organization

Lahti Science and Business Park

Please indicate also the type of the organisation

state agency or public body

3. Home country of the committing organisation

Finland

Organization homepage (like www.bsas.fi)

www.lahtisbp.fi/en

4. Contact person – content of the commitment – name

Johanna Kilpi-Koski

Contact person – content of the commitment – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

johanna.kilpi-koskiREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]lahtisbp.fi

5. Contact person – for communication – name

Johanna Kilpi-Koski

Contact person – for communication – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

johanna.kilpi-koskiREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]lahtisbp.fi

6. Contact person – for communication – postal address

-

9. Commitment title and designation/acronym etc (that you wish to use)

Co-operation between Vodokanal and LSBP to consult and have action to achieve Reach level in laboratory of Vodokanal

10. Nature of commitment

Professional service

11. Description of commitment and the implementation strategy

* REACH is the new EU chemicals directive adopted in EU in 2007. The aim of the REACH directive is to reduce impacts of chemicals on the environment and human health by increasing knowledge about safety use of chemicals and to improve chemicals risk assessment. REACH also restricts the use of the most harmful chemicals and promotes finding safety substitutes.

* Concrete co-operation/action (present situation, used chemicals, analyzers, how to achieve requirements of REACH and become Reache level laboratory, future situation) lead by LSBP with associate partners / cluster member companies to achieve REACH level in the laboratory of Vodokanal St. Peterburg in order to reduce impacts of chemicals in the Baltic Sea.

* Consultancy work to benchmark the current level of Vodokanal laboratory and to prepare the REACH implementation plan.

* SWOT for adopting REACH level requirements in Vodokanal laboratory

12. Focus area (see HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan)

Innovative Solutions

Focus area(s), if other

Awareness raising

13. Objective of commitment and its impact on the Baltic Sea (temporary, permanent, etc.)

Permanent:
* action point to achive goals
* main target isto have better Baltic Sea
* minimize emission to Baltic Sea
* realize ho important is to be careful with chemicals
* risk assesment of used chemicals

14. What is needed for the commitment to be successful? (one-time action, continuous support or/and financing, support for a certain time period)

* at the beginning support for preparing the co-operation plan with Vodokanal St Petersburg.
* later check points
* support for finding financing to carry out the work (potential sources indicated: ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland)

15. Geographic scope of the commitment (Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Proper, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat, the whole Baltic Sea, etc.)

Gulf of Finland and later on monitoring taraget areas in the Baltic Sea

16. Partnership opportunities and contact information for this purpose

LSBP with Finnish Cluster member companies

17. Is your commitment/contribution a highly significant, significant, medium or minor effort to your organisation?

Significant effort

18. Starting date

2010 March 18^th

20. Expected commitment duration

6 months

19. First / next milestone - title

Status update

First / next milestone - date

2010 March 30^th

First / next milestone - description

Status update

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