NEWS BULLETIN OF CP/RAC AND ITS NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS JULY/NOVEMBER 2012 - NUMBER 45
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Process and BAT databases nearly to be enlarged

Process and BAT databases nearly to be enlarged
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From May 31st, the 2 technological databases foreseen in the BAT4MED Project are available online through the project’s website. During September, 50 Horizontal Datasheets are being developed and designed to be included into the databases. Those tools are useful not only for the project, but they also constitute ...

These databases form the backbone for drafting chapters 3 “Description of the industrial processes and environmental aspects”, and 4 “Description of the potential environmentally friendly techniques” of the BAT reports and will ...

 
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4th BAT4MED PTB meeting successfully held in Barcelona

4th BAT4MED PTB meeting successfully held in Barcelona
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On June, 12th, the 4th Project Technical Board Meeting was held in the CP/RAC facilities, in Barcelona. Representatives from VITO, SSSUP, CEDARE, IAT and CP/RAC attended to the meeting, which took place in the afternoon and tackled specially Work Package 3 (Development of BAT sector reports), Work Package 4 (towards ...

  The main objectives of the meeting were to discuss the development and status of the two mentioned Work Packages (WP): reviewing of completed activities and status of deliverables and also the planning for the upcoming ...

 
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4th Project Management Board in ARC-CP/RAC facilities

4th Project Management Board in ARC-CP/RAC facilities
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Five months after the 3rd PMB meeting, held in Belgium, on June, 13th and 14th, took place in the Catalan Waste Agency facilities the 4th BAT4MED Project Management Board (PMB) Meeting that was attended by all Partners (VITO, SSSUP, CP/RAC, EEAA, CITET, CMPP, CEDARE and IAT).

The meeting was divided in thematic Work Packages (WP) and specific tasks, with an assessment of the activities carried out until the moment and envisioning new goals to be reached in the following months. IAT, as Project Manager ...

 
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THIRD MEETINGS FOR THE TWG HELD IN THE MPCs

THIRD MEETINGS FOR THE TWG HELD IN THE MPCs
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During November, the third Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings took place in Tunisia (6th November 2012), Egypt (8th November 2012), and Morocco (13th November 2012). The elaboration of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reports –one per sector and per country- was the main subject of the meetings.

The BAT Reports are divided in 6 chapters: chapter1 introduces the BAT concept; chapter 2 explains the socio-economic and environmental-legislative framework of the sector; chapter 3 is a process description; chapter 4 gathers ...

 
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CP/RAC in Rio+20

CP/RAC the event "Challenges and Opportunities for a Mediterranean Green Growth”, held on the framework of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event, which took place on 19 June was co-organized by ...

This side event gathered the major institutions and stakeholders from European, Western Asian and North African countries to provide an overview of the joint efforts of ...

 
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Training on New POPs in Algiers

The CPRAC, in collaboration with the Algerian National Technology Centre for Cleaner Production (Centre National des Technologies de Production plus Propre -CNTPP) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organized the ...

50 local participants, two International experts and two CPRAC representatives attended to the workshop. Participants were from ministries of environment, trade, transport, ...

 
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CP/RAC organizes the H2020 sub-regional training on sustainable management of industrial areas

The sub-regional training “Towards a sustainable management of industrial activities in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia” held on 12th, 13th and 14th of June in Tunis, gathered 31 participants from Ministries of Trade and Industry, Environment, ...

The scope of the training included the deepening of participants’ knowledge on how to manage in a more sustainable way existing industrial parks, how to increase the ...

 
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Enhancing of the environmental management and performance of Egyptian SMEs in coastal areas

Within the framework of the Horizon 2020 Capacity Building/Mediterranean Environment Programme (H2020 CB/MEP) and in response to the Egyptian needs to better address the challenge of depolluting the Mediterranean, the CP/RAC organized a training ...

About 50 participants attended the workshop with the majority representing stakeholders from coastal governorates and some from Cairo with an objective to highlight the ...

 
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