1. Inventory, Regulations and Environmental Impact of Toxic Mining Wastes
A JRC Project in association with Central and Eastern European Countries of the Pre-Accession
Steering Group Meeting
21-22 October 2001
pecomines

2. The JRC Mission
To provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring
of EU policies
The JRC functions as a centre of science and technology (S&T)
reference for the EU
independent of commercial
and national interests

3. The JRC Today 7 Institutes in 5 Member States: Total Staff 2200
IRMM - Geel Belgium
- Institute for Reference Materials and
Measurements
IE - Petten The Netherlands
- Institute for Energy
ITU - Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute for Transuranium Elements
IPSC - IHCP - IES - Ispra Italy
- Institute for the Protection and Security
of the Citizen
- Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
- Institute for Environment and Sustainability
IPTS - Seville Spain
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
Total Staff 2200

4. JRC Activities Current and Future Issues
Food, Chemical Products and Health (food safety and quality, GMOs, chemical products, biomedical applications)
Environment and Sustainability (climate change, technologies for sustainability, environmental protection, GMES)
Nuclear Safety and Security (waste treatment & storage, radio- protection, reactor safety, illicit trafficking, reference materials and measurements)
S&T Foresight
Reference Materials and Measurements (BCR, reference materials, chemical measurements)
Public security and antifraud (demining, natural and industrial hazards, cyber-security, antifraud technologies)
thematic
horizontal

5. S&T Support vs. Underpinning Research
32%
All themes
68%
Horizontal activities
Nuclear safety
Dependability ISS
S&T Support
Und.Research
Environment
Food and chemicals
0,00
20,00
40,00
60,00
80,00 M€

6. Strategic Positioning in the European Research Area
The JRC Towards FP6
Strategic Positioning in the European Research Area
Add value to Member State laboratories
Promote development of common scientific references for EU policy making
Anticipate future S&T developments and policy needs
Networking (validate, harmonise, integrate methods, analyse, benchmark, etc.)
New partnerships with Pre-Accession countries

7. JRC ‘Pre-Accession’ Programme
The JRC offers a range of opportunities to the Candidate Countries (CCs) which are associated to FP5, including:
• Extension of core projects to focus on specific CCs needs
• Joint project development in response to FP5 calls (41 projects under way)
• Hosting schemes for CC visiting scientists, experts, grant-holders
A dedicated communication strategy has been put in place including JRC information days, enlargement web-site, enlargement contact officers at each institute, etc.

8. (18 projects have been “enlarged” in 7 Areas)
JRC “Pre-Accession” Programme
(18 projects have been “enlarged” in 7 Areas)
Harmonisation of Measurements
Environment
Food Safety
Health
Agricultural Policy
Prospective Analyses of the Accession Process
Nuclear
Air quality and emissions control
Natural & technological hazards
Toxic mining waste
Geographic Information Systems
Radioactive Monitoring
Solar Energy
Safety
Safeguards

9. (18 projects have been “enlarged” in 7 Areas)
JRC “Pre-Accession” Programme
(18 projects have been “enlarged” in 7 Areas)
Harmonisation of Measurements
Environment
Food Safety
Health
Agricultural Policy
Prospective Analyses of the Accession Process
Nuclear
Air quality and emissions control
Natural & technological hazards
Toxic mining waste
Geographic Information Systems
Radioactive Monitoring
Solar Energy
Safety
Safeguards

10. Goals of the Meeting 21-22 October 2001
pecomines
Establish a Steering Committee of CC experts on legislation and inventory to assist and monitor the project development
Learn from experience in the CCs, open consultation process and call for comments, suggestions and input
Agree on methodological procedures and establish a platform for information exchange to collect, use, compare and deliver back data
Establish the basis for a longer-term cooperation with JRC

11. pecomines
Agenda
”Inventory, Regulations and Environmental Impact of Toxic Mining Waste"
JRC, Ispra
21-22 October 2001