A presentation from the final AdvanceETV conference in Brussels May 22-24 providing a summary of options for international cooperation on environmental technology verification.

1. Practical International ETV
Cooperation
Christian Grøn, DHI
Final AdvanceETV Conference, Brussels, May 2012

2. The global challenges require new
technologies in operation

3. What are the barriers?
Purchaser
caution
Lack of Recognised National and
documen- performance regional
tation legislation
label
Trade barriers
Lists of
approved
technologies

4. What performance label?
China

5. One performance label!

6. How to get there?
China
ETV ISO

7. Practical ways of cooporating –
towards one performance label
• One European performance label
– The EU ETV pilot programme
• Building confidence and mutual understanding
– International Working Group (IWG ETV) for programme owners
– Bilateral cooperations
• Sharing knowledge
– Virtual forum for verification and test bodies
• Verification cooperation
– Co- and joint verifications
• Making methods of ETV work converge
– Preparation of an international ETV standard
• Disseminating ETV
– ASEAN ETV initiative

8. ASEAN ETV Initiative
• Objective is to promote cooperation on ETV within the countries of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• Driven by ETV Philippines
• ASEAN participation at 4th International ETV Forum and the International
Working Group on ETV Meeting, November 2009, in Manila, Philippines
• ASEAN ETV Workshop 2010
o Participation of seven ASEAN member states (participation by
Malaysia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and
the ASEAN Secretariat based in Indonesia)
• DANETV ETV Philippines proposal in preparation

9. Co- and joint verifications
Vendor Application Involved ETV
programmes
Sorbisense Measurement of volatile organic NOWATECH, US EPA ETV
contaminants in groundwater
HACH-LANGE Toxicity testing of effluent DANETV, US EPA ETV, ETV
wastewater Canada
Colifast Automatic detection of total coliform US EPA ETV, DANETV, ETV
bacteria or Escherichia coli in Canada
drinking water

10. Contributors co- and joint roadmaps
ETV programmes ETV operators Other organizations
EU ETV pre-programme DHI (Denmark) European Com-mittee for Standardiza-tion
DANETV (Denmark) IVL (Sweden) Institute for Prospective Technologi-cal Studies (EU)
US EPA ETV Tecnalia (Spain) Environment Agency (United Kingdom)
Canadian ETV program Battelle (United States) HACH-LANGE (Germany)
ETV Korea OCETA/Bloom (ETV Canada) DECHEMA (Germany)
ETV Japan Deltares (Nether-lands)
ETV Philippines Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (Poland)
et environ-ment and technology (Germany)

11. Virtual ETV operator network – one
approach
• Objective
o Enhance cooperation between the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
operators of the World
o An increased number of co- and joint verifications
o Exchange information on vendors and technologies with ETV potential
o Extended cooperation between the existing operators
• Intended participants
o ETV operators
• One form
o Monthly virtual meeting based upon Skype or WebEx.
o Agenda
− Mutual information on on-going verifications
− Exchange of data of technology candidates for cooperation
− Conveying of contact information between technology owner and ETV
operator on cooperation candidates
− Information on preparation of generic verification protocols and other tools of
mutual interest and status of the ETV programmes
• We invite all ETV operators to participate, registration by e-mail til mta@dhigroup.com

12. Bilateral Cooperations
• Exchange of information on organization and operation of ETV programmes
– e.g. NOWATECH, the precursor of DANETV, learning from the US ETV and ETV
Canada programmes through meetings and visits
• Dissemination of verification protocols and reports and the inherent methodologies
– e.g. the US ETV publication on the web
• Verification cooperation
– e.g. co- and joint verifications performed by DANETV, the US and the Canadian ETV
programmes, and translation/transfer of verifications from Japan to the Philippines
• Enhancing ETV interests through participation of other ETV programmes in meetings and
discussions
– e.g. DANETV participating in an ETV Philippines event, other ETV programmes
represented at events organised by Advance ETV in support of the EU ETV
• Specific cooperation projects,
– e.g. ETV Philippines and DANETV proposing to ASEAN to develop a model for
cooperation between ETV programmes in industrialised and developing countries, and
DANETV preparing cooperation models for use in co- and joint verification with
China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines

13. Bilateral cooperations – the essentials

14. Summary of options for ETV cooperation
EU USA Canada China Korea Japan Philip-
pines
Co- and
joint
List
access
Bilateral
coope-
ration
Net-
working

15. Conclusions
• ETV is expanding globally
• Initiatives for bilateral, regional and global cooperation are expanding
• Tools and methods are being developed and shared to an increasing
extent
• The challenge is NOT to end up with: verified everywhere to be accepted
globally
• Opportunities for cross-border verifications do exist – seize them to
expand your markets!

16. Thank you for your attention
For more information visit
www.etv-denmark.com
- or contact Christian Grøn
chg@dhigroup.com
‘Verify Once
Accepted Everywhere’

17. Virtual ETV operator network – how?
• Objective
o What?
• Intended participants
o Who?
• Form
o How?
o Agenda
− Items?
• How to proceed?