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EPTA Special Meeting
Sustainable Development:
Business as Usual or a Need for Change?

Thursday September 26, 1996
Royal Academy of Engineering, 29 Great Peter Street, London

Sustainable Development has been adopted as an important guide to policy in EU states, but it is far from clear what it actually means for the way we live. National Parliaments of EPTA States have asked the question what does sustainable development mean in a number of different areas. EPTA, the association of the current parliamentary technology assessment offices of EU states, brings these studies together.

Detailed Programme

9.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.00 Dr. Michael Norton, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK
CHAIRMAN'S INTRODUCTION
10.15 Lydia Sterrenberg, Rathenau Institute, Netherlands;
"Crop Protection suitable for Sustainability and Economic Development in the Netherlands"
11.00 Mr. Jean-Francois Mattei, Office Parliamentaire des Choix Scientifiques et Technologiques, Paris.
"Health and the Environment"
11.45 Professor H. Paschen, Technology Assessment Board of the German Bundestag, Bonn.
"Integrated Environmental Technology, Environment Policy and Sustainable Development"
12.30 LUNCH
14.00 Ida Andersen, Danish Board of Technology.
"Consumption and Sustainability"
14.45 Gary Kass, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK.
"Transport and its Implications for Sustainability"
15.30 TEA
15.45 Dr. S. Owen, Dr H. Williams, from Ecotec, UK, for STOA, European Parliament.
"Sustainability and the Information Society"
16.30 Discussion of common themes from the national presentations.
17.30 DRINKS RECEPTION
18.30 END OF MEETING


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