09:00 – 09:30

Opening Session

Opening of the conference

     Introductory address

Danuta Koradecka

     CIOP-PIB

Welcome addresses

   

Representative of the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Representative of the Polish    Committee for Standardization

09:30 – 12:30

Session 1

           New developments in the EU and their impact upon    occupational safety and health

09:30 – 10:30

New developments in EU legislation

           Chair: Danuta Koradecka, CIOP-PIB

Revision of the New Approach

Jacques McMillan

     DG Enterprise and Industry

Recent directives in the social field and their possible impact on    standardization

José Ramón Biosca de Sagastuy

     DG Employment, Social Affairs    and Equal Opportunities

The new Machinery Directive

Ian Fraser

     DG Enterprise and Industry

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Impact upon product safety

           Chair: Norbert Breutmann, KAN

European and international product safety standardization

Ernst-Peter Ziethen

     CEN/BT

      

Conformity assessment and notified bodies

Karl-Heinz Noetel

     European coordination of    notified bodies for personal protective equipment

Market surveillance

   

Phil Papard

     ADCO Group  Machinery

Product design and manufacturing – The manufacturers’ viewpoint

Adrian Harris

     ORGALIME

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Session 2

           OSH activities and    competitiveness

           Chair: Hans-Joachim    Wolff, DGUV

How OSH    activities can support the development of productivity and well-being at work

Harri Vainio

     FIOH

Implementation of the New EU Strategy on OSH 2007-2012 in Poland

      

Danuta Koradecka

     CIOP-PIB

Research and innovation

     Innovation for safer and more    competitive workplaces

Michael Schaefer

     BGIA

Standardization

     Standards in support of safer    and more competitive workplaces

N.N.

Testing/Certification

     Effects of testing and    certification on safer products and competitive workplaces

Manfred Rentrop

     DGUV

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Session 3

           Evaluation of the current situation and possible    improvements

           Chair: Dirk Moritz,    BMAS

Experience with the New    Approach, scope for progress

Raphaël Haeflinger

     EUROGIP

Market surveillance: expectations from industry

Claudio Celata

     ASSOCOMAPLAST

The trade unions’ views

Stefano Boy

     ETUI-REHS

Small and medium-sized enterprises: follow-up of the good-practice    study on participation in standardization

Loucas Gourtsoyannis

     NORMAPME

Discussion

19:30

Dinner

Friday, 12     September 2008

09:00 – 10:15

Session 3 (cont.)

           Evaluation of the current situation and possible    improvements

           Chair: Marie-Chantal Blandin, CNAMTS

Benefits of standardization and areas to be improved

Knut Blind

     TU Berlin

The European Occupational Safety and Health Network and the EUROSHNET    “Cracow    Memorandum”

Jean Jacques

     INRS

     Joachim Lambert

     KAN

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 11:45

Discussions of key aspects    concerning the EUROSHNET “Cracow Memorandum”

Walter    Eichendorf

     DGUV

     Jacques McMillan

       DG Enterprise and Industry

         Daniel Podgórski

       CIOP-PIB

11:45 – 12:00

Conference review and orientation for the future

   

Closing address

     

Jean-Luc Marié

     INRS

     

       Danuta Koradecka

     CIOP-PIB

12:00

Lunch