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The ERIF holds regular discussions, focusing on specific themes. These meetings bring together regulatory experts from a wide range of backgrounds, including the EU institutions, EU Member States and other OECD governments, the OECD, academia, the private sector, NGOs, foundations, and the legal community.
ERIF events are held under Chatham House Rule. Attendance is open to ERIF members and on invitation only.


Planned events (*)
1 February 2022 Members-only Webinar Discussion with Diederik Samsom, Head, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, European Commission, "Making the EU Green Deal work: What framework Conditions for investing in the transition?"


(*) The list is subject to change. For further inquiries about upcoming events, please contact info@eriforum.eu.
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Past events

19 January 2022 Webinar Discussion with Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP and Kathleen Garnett, Senior Researcher EU Law and Policy, Wageningen University, "Novel Regulatory Concepts, Management of Potential Harms and Regulatory Predictability: Legal Dimensions of the 'Essentiality' test'" 

18 November 2021  High-Level Science-based-Decision-Making Workshop with Sir Colin Berry, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, London University; Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Professor of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Essen; Daniel Dietrich, Professor of Human and Environmental Toxicology, University of Konstanz; Paul Carmichael, Endowed Professor of Next Generation Risk Assessment Approaches for Human and Environmental Health, Wageningen University and Senior Science Leader, Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC), Unilever; Richard Meads, Rapporteur, ERIF; Jim Bridges, Emeritus Professor of Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of Surrey and a former Chair of SCTEE, SCC, and SCHENIR committees; Sue O’Hagan, Director Scientific Affairs and Food Safety at PepsiCo and former regulatory toxicologist at the UK Department of Health; and, Angus Cameron, International Regulatory and Pharmaceutical Registration expert, "Excellence in Consumer Safety: Science-Based-Decision-Making Workshop"

20 October 2021 Webinar Discussion with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Senior Economist, OECD, and Jules Besnainou, Cleantech Group,  "Fostering Innovation and its diffusion for the Green transition: What conditions for investing in Europe?"

24 September 2021 Members-only Workshop with Johannes Drielsma, Owner, Drielsma Resources Europe; and Marie-Adélaïde de Nicolay, Head of the Brussels office, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), "The shaping of Sustainable Finance: Key features and criticalities of the EU proposals"

8 June 2021 Webinar Discussion with Michael Wimmer, Director, Strategy, Better Regulation and Corporate Governance, Secretariat-General, European Commission, Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director-General, BEUC and Christoph Bausch, "Better Regulation for the European Green Deal: From the Commission’s Communication to action"

25 May 2021 Webinar Discussion with with Hilary Sutcliffe, Director, SocietyInside & TIGTech, Karina Stan, Director of EU Policy, Head of Brussels Office, Developpers Alliance and Kai Lücke, Senior Vice-President and Head of External Affairs, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, "Trust in New Technologies: The Role of Regulation, Government and Stakeholders"

20 May 2021 ERIF members-only workshop, "Allocation of Capital: Implications for Innovation and achieving the EU Green Deal”

4 May 2021 Webinar Discussion with with Mark Ferguson, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government of Ireland and Chair of the Advisory Board, European Innovation Council, "The European Green Deal: what's in it for science and innovation?"
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1 April 2021 ERIF members-only workshop, "Essentiality: Concept and Implications for Innovation and Regulatory Risk Management (II)"

18 March 2021 Webinar Discussion with with Anthony Smith, Social scientist - Risk Communication, Communication, Engagement and Cooperation Department, EFSA, and Ragnar Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management, King's College London, "Risk Communication revisited? Latest developments and prospective policy at EFSA"

2 March 2021 ERIF members-only workshop, "Essentiality: Concept and Implications for Innovation and Regulatory Risk Management (I)"

23 February 2021 Webinar Discussion with Gijs Schilthuis, Head of Unit, Policy Perspectives, DG Agriculture, European Commission, Dirk Jacobs, Deputy Director General and Director Consumer Information, Nutrition &Health, FoodDrinkEurope, and Piet van der Meer, Professor in Biosafety Regulation in Plant-biotechnology (Ghent University) and in Biotechnology Regulation (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), "The Farm to Fork Strategy and Better Regulation"

10 December 2020 Webinar Discussion with Frauke Averbeck, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany, Leah Charpentier, Head of European Regulatory Affairs & Government Relations, First Solar, and Richard Meads, Rapporteur, European Risk Forum, "Proportionate management of harms: Risk Management Option Analysis (RMOA)"

27 November 2020 
Webinar Discussion with Michael Wimmer, Director, Strategy, Better Regulation and Corporate Governance, Secretariat-General, European Commission, "The Better Regulation agenda under the von der Leyen Commission"

12 November 2020 
Webinar Discussion with Stephen Quest, Director-General, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, "Leveraging research and science to shape the EU Green Deal: The role of the JRC"​






For further inquiries about past events, please contact info@eriforum.eu
 ​​The ERIF is registered in the European Transparency Register (ID 52996964558-47).​
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