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14:20 The streamSAVE guidance and its platform illustrated (Elisabeth Böck, AEA)
14:55 A view from industry: What is the added value of streamSAVE (standardized) methods in frame of the EED (Conor Molloy, AEMS ECOfleet)
14:55 Country experiences: the added value of standardized methods (Elena Allegrini, ENEA, Italy)
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This webinar presents this Guidance and other project findings to the broader community, including industry and markets.
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(Nele Renders, Project Coordinator)
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14:20 The streamSAVE guidance and its platform illustrated (Elisabeth Böck, AEA)
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The seminar featured presentations from various perspectives, including industry, regulatory bodies, and academia. Topics included the history and principles of Problem Formulation, industry perspectives on Problem Formulation and how it is applied internally for microbial pesticides, regulatory approaches, and specific case studies. The seminar provided an overview of the challenges, considerations, and potential solutions in harmonising Problem Formulation for biopesticide risk assessment. It emphasised the need for collaboration and discussion to develop Problem Formulation guidance for biopesticides.
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The seminar on Problem Formulation for the Risk Assessment of Biopesticides stemmed from a previous CRP-sponsored event on Innovating Microbial Pesticide Testing that identified the need for an overarching guidance document to determine when in vivo tests are necessary. Problem Formulation, a common practice in pesticide risk assessment, was highlighted as a useful approach for addressing uncertainties in data requirements for biopesticides.
The seminar featured presentations from various perspectives, including industry, regulatory bodies, and academia. Topics included the history and principles of Problem Formulation, industry perspectives on Problem Formulation and how it is applied internally for microbial pesticides, regulatory approaches, and specific case studies. The seminar provided an overview of the challenges, considerations, and potential solutions in harmonising Problem Formulation for biopesticide risk assessment. It emphasised the need for collaboration and discussion to develop Problem Formulation guidance for biopesticides.
Role of genome sequencing (WGS) in microbial biopesticides safety assessment ...OECD Environment
The seminar on Problem Formulation for the Risk Assessment of Biopesticides stemmed from a previous CRP-sponsored event on Innovating Microbial Pesticide Testing that identified the need for an overarching guidance document to determine when in vivo tests are necessary. Problem Formulation, a common practice in pesticide risk assessment, was highlighted as a useful approach for addressing uncertainties in data requirements for biopesticides.
The seminar featured presentations from various perspectives, including industry, regulatory bodies, and academia. Topics included the history and principles of Problem Formulation, industry perspectives on Problem Formulation and how it is applied internally for microbial pesticides, regulatory approaches, and specific case studies. The seminar provided an overview of the challenges, considerations, and potential solutions in harmonising Problem Formulation for biopesticide risk assessment. It emphasised the need for collaboration and discussion to develop Problem Formulation guidance for biopesticides.
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The seminar on Problem Formulation for the Risk Assessment of Biopesticides stemmed from a previous CRP-sponsored event on Innovating Microbial Pesticide Testing that identified the need for an overarching guidance document to determine when in vivo tests are necessary. Problem Formulation, a common practice in pesticide risk assessment, was highlighted as a useful approach for addressing uncertainties in data requirements for biopesticides.
The seminar featured presentations from various perspectives, including industry, regulatory bodies, and academia. Topics included the history and principles of Problem Formulation, industry perspectives on Problem Formulation and how it is applied internally for microbial pesticides, regulatory approaches, and specific case studies. The seminar provided an overview of the challenges, considerations, and potential solutions in harmonising Problem Formulation for biopesticide risk assessment. It emphasised the need for collaboration and discussion to develop Problem Formulation guidance for biopesticides.
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The seminar featured presentations from various perspectives, including industry, regulatory bodies, and academia. Topics included the history and principles of Problem Formulation, industry perspectives on Problem Formulation and how it is applied internally for microbial pesticides, regulatory approaches, and specific case studies. The seminar provided an overview of the challenges, considerations, and potential solutions in harmonising Problem Formulation for biopesticide risk assessment. It emphasised the need for collaboration and discussion to develop Problem Formulation guidance for biopesticides.
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The seminar on Problem Formulation for the Risk Assessment of Biopesticides stemmed from a previous CRP-sponsored event on Innovating Microbial Pesticide Testing that identified the need for an overarching guidance document to determine when in vivo tests are necessary. Problem Formulation, a common practice in pesticide risk assessment, was highlighted as a useful approach for addressing uncertainties in data requirements for biopesticides.
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Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
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Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
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Presentation - OECD workshop on the performance of utilities for wastewater, WAREG
1. Prof. Andrea Guerrini
WAREG President
31 January 2023
OECD workshop - The performance of utilities
for wastewater collection and treatment
The perspective of regulators - WAREG
2. • Established in 2014 (Milan, Brussels)
• No-profit association of national & regional Public Authorities with
supervising and/or regulatory responsibilities in the dw & ww sectors.
• 25 Members + 6 Observers:
• 17 EU Member States + UK
• 4 EU Candidate Countries
• 4 EU Neighbouring Policy Partners
Members oversee +300 million
consumers in EU.
(+400 million including non-EU
members & observers).
A public perspective on European water services
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Consumer
standards
Technical
quality
standards
Business plan
approval
Licensing Dispute
settlement
KPIs
monitoring
Enforcement
of regulatory
decisions
Tariff
calculation
Data
collection
Tariff approval
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3. Some key obligations in the EC proposal for a new UWWTD:
• Energy neutrality of Urban Wastewater facilities (Art. 11)
• Monitoring (art. 21) + EU data set (art. 22) on GHG emissions, energy used
and RES produced in ww plants above 10 000 p.e.
• Ensure the availability of Information to the Public (Article 24/Annex 6):
• Total annual investment and operational costs of the operators;
• Energy-related information for each UWWTP in the agglomeration
New UWWTD: more pressure on energy efficiency on ww services
The Proposal bases its cost recovery forecast in the following figures:
• The costs of the initiative would represent an increase of 3,79% to the current expenditures for water
supply and sanitation.
• Additional expenses covered by :
o The new producer responsibility system (around € 1,2 billion/year needed to treat micro-pollutants)
o Public budgets (around € 0,774 billion/year); and
o Water Tariffs (around € 1,806 billion/year).
• This is expected to represent a 2,26% increase of the average EU water tariffs.
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Prudent estimation of costs recovered through
tariffs for regulated utilities? Impact on tariffs
could be mitigated by operational cost-efficiency
4. Investment and impact on dw & ww tariffs in Italy (2013 – 2019)
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• Investments have increased, while tariffs have
decreased, because of operational costs
efficiency generated by tariff regulation.
• Regulators in the EU, where they exist, can play
a significant role in setting targets for KPIs.
The independent regulator for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA) has the powers to set national
tariffs (since 2012) and KPIs against pre-defined targets (introduced in 2018)
• In some EU Countries ww economic regulators
are already promoting OPEX efficiency through
different tools including KPIS (by setting
rewards for pre-defined efficiency targets)
• More flexibility may be needed where no OPEX
efficiency stimulus exist
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How to monitor energy efficiency in wastewater services?
Figure 1 Key energy-related KPIs used by WAREG regulators
Source: WAREG survey 2022
1. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used for:
•monitoring the provision of water and wastewater services; or
•for economic regulation purposes
2. Regulators more frequently use KPIs for monitoring
purposes than to set financial incentives:
•some Regulators adjust tariffs based on the utilities’ achievement of pre-
defined KPIs targets
3. Public access to pre-defined KPIs (fig. 1) should increase
awareness & willingness to pay on cost implications for
households: setting pre-defined targets? Who?
4. EU drinking water regulations will only require the
publication of indicators on drinking water quality but not on
the performance efficiency of drinking water operations
(Directive (EU) 2020/2184)
A WAREG survey (2022) on the impact of energy costs in dw & ww
tariffs allowed some take-aways on energy efficiency:
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Regulatory incentives based on KPIs
Technical quality
targets
Water losses
reduction
Water interruptions
Water quality
Sewerage system
adequacy
Sludge disposal
Wastewater quality
To the extent that a project of energy efficiency
on SII infrastructures is interdependent to
reach a technical quality standard, it can be
included into water regulation:
Operating and capital
costs covered by tariff
Possibility to attending
award/penalty mechanism
of RQTI
Non Regulatory incentives and hybrid till
energy cost reductions deriving
from efficiency can be kept by
utilities as savings, according to
tariff rules
White certificates (TEE)
➢ Quantity certificates which measure energy savings gained by specific
efficiency measures;
➢ Price of certificate derives from market negotiation (a cap of 250 euro for
each certificate is set);
➢ National legislation (MISE decree of 11 January 2017) has extended the
category of projects eligible to get TEEs to water sector (efficiency of
water network and wastewater plants).
Actually, costs and revenues deriving from acquisition and selling of
white certificates are included within the water regulatory perimeter
bounds, and the operator could keep the 75% of gross margin from TEE
negotiation.
Energy costs – the Italian case (1/2)
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Renewable energy production through water and
wastewater plants
ELECTRICITY BIOMETHANE
➢ Legislator has provided incentives to operators who produce electric
energy by using renewables, quantified from the amount of electricity
fed into the grid, type of renewable source and characteristics of
plants
➢ Plants which have access to incentives (almost 1MW power) can be
also hydroelectric plants – with no additional abstraction by water
body – and production of residual gases from wastewater treatment
plants
➢ Operators feeding biomethane into the grid are incentivized by legislator by
means of specific certificates (CIC) - whose quantity depends on biomethane fed
in consumption while price derives from market negotiation - and measures of
withdrawal from market at a fixed price
➢ Some experimentations are being implemented concerning the use of
biomethane deriving by conversion of biogas produced into wastewater
treatment to feed the operators car parks necessaries to carry out SII
According to the tariff method, operators can cover the total costs of energy production through tariff, and gross margin can be kept by the
operators up to a 75% threshold.
Energy costs – the Italian case (2/2)
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Appreciation for improving
the disclosure of
information to customers
Importance of raising
and promoting
consumer awareness
EU water Legislation makes
no explicit reference to
economic regulation
Member States are
responsible for deciding
which competent authorities
or appropriate bodies
monitor and collect the
required data
Who collects, validates and
monitors the data in each
Member State?
Data should be collected according
to similar criteria and
computational rules by the same
entities throughout the EU (e.g.,
formally entrusting economic
regulators with collecting data)
The engagement of different
entities (i.e., Ministries in some
countries, regulators in others, and
environmental authorities in the
rest) may likely result in the
obtention of less homogeneous
criteria and data
Safeguard good
governance practices, like
economic regulation
where it already exists, to
ensure implementation of
UWWTD targets
Some takeaways on the UWWTD
9. Ensure the
transparency
and
reliability of
information
•Set homogeneous targets (ex.
KPIs, name & shame, public
reports, etc.).
•Set compliance instruments
(ex. tariff penalties/incentives,
monetary fines, etc.).
Balance
potentially
conflicting
objectives
•Energy use targets vs targets
on pollutants removal that
require more energy
consumption.
•The use of statistical models
by Regulatory Authorities can
contribute to increase
efficiency.
Promotion of
national
compliance
with legislative
requirements
•Taking part in the
implementation programmes
of EU legislation.
Data
collection &
validation
•Ensure adequate and up-to-
date information is available
to the public.
Potential role of economic regulators in UWWTD implementation
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Through their independent competence in measuring KPIs, economic regulators can offer to national
and EU Institutions a transparent view on selected UWWD targets