During three days, ChemSec gathered prominent representatives from environmental organisations and other actors for strategic discussions regarding the focus of chemicals work for the upcoming years.

One focus of the discussions were EU and US policies and how regulations and policy reforms in the EU and US can benefit from and strengthen each other. What can US efforts on TSCA reform learn from the EU REACH experience, was one of the issues discussed.

The EU and the US processes were also related to the global processes and conventions in discussions on how lessons from EU and the US can be used within SAICM and the Stockholm Convention, as well as the other way around.

The group of gathered actors also laid out strategies on how to develop the SIN List as a tool towards a more comprehensive Candidate List, raised public awareness, business engagement and safer consumer products.

The following organisations were represented at the NGO Meeting on International Chemicals Strategies 14-16 September at Björkö Island, Sweden.

• Clean Production Action
• ChemSec
• Health Care Without Harm
• Greens, European Parliament
• European Environmental Bureau
• Center for International Environmental Law
• San Francisco Environment Department
• ChemTrust
• European Consumers' Organisation
• Health and Environment Alliance
• Greenpeace
• WWF
• Friends of the Earth
• EnviroAction
• Investor Environmental Health Network
• Environmental Defence Fund
• Women in Europe for a Common Future
• ISTAS
• European Trade Union Confederation
• Swedish Society for Nature Conservation