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Programm

European DWD-Conference 2026

Article 11 of Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast)

Programm 2026 (PDF)

Drinking water contact materials go Europe – Start on 1. January 2027

Thursday, 8. october 2026

10:00Welcome Coffee (arrival of participants)

10:30 Opening lecture (introduction to the conference)

11:00 Drinking water contact materials in Europe
Legal Background
Bert Leemans (EU Commission)

  • DWD – Drinking Water Directive
  • Implementing and Delegated Acts
  • Main pillars and identified gaps

11:45 Question & Answer

12:00Drinking water contact materials in Europe
Supporting Document (part 1)
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Rapp (UBA)

  • Introduction to supporting document
  • Certification of pre-products, intermediate products and formulations
  • Differences between the German and European system

12:45 Question & Answer

13:00 Lunch break (buffet)

14:00 Drinking water contact materials in Europe
Positive Lists
Speaker: Panagiotis Zarogiannis (ECHA)

  • Positive lists for materials
  • Petitions and Mocup
  • Substance sunset date and implications in practice

14:45Question & Answer

15:00 Coffee break

15:00 Drinking water contact materials in Europe
Supporting Document (part 1) & A member states view
Speaker: Bianca van de Ven (RIVM)

  • Testing and accepting organic materials
  • New requirements compared to 4MS initiative
  • Transition from national to EU-System
16:15 Question & Answer

16:30 Panel  discussion

19:00 Get Together with dinner

Friday, 9. october 2026

8:30 Welcome Coffee (arrival of participants)

9:00 future Notified Bodies
Speaker: Marco van Brink (fNB)

  • Role of Notified Bodies
  • Organisation and involvement (fNB)
  • Becoming a notified body

9:45 Question & Answer

10:00 The products industry view
Speaker: Lars Neveling (EDW/figawa)
  • Role of the EDW
  • Industry view on upcoming legislation on drinking water contact materials

10:45 Question & Answer

11:00 Coffe break (buffet)

11:30 Getting substances/starting composition
on the EUPLs
Lara Van de Merckt (European Metals)

  • Role of European Metals
  • Learnings from mock-up dossiers
  • Identified gaps and challenges for the EUPLs process

12:15 Question & Answer

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 future Notified Bodies subroup laboratories
Speaker: Dr. Johannes Ruppert (fNB)

  • Role of the subgroup laboratories
  • Experimental challenges unexpected substances
  • Testing challenges

14:15Question & Answer

14:30 The materials industry view
Speaker: Prof. Claus Wrana (Compounds AG)

  • Certification of intermediate products – rubber as case example
  • Scientific approaches towards safe curing
  • Certification challenge‘s

15:15Question & Answer

15:30 Closing lecture (wrapup of the conference)