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CENTRAL DREDGING ASSOCIATION - CEDA
The leading professional association for dredging serving you and the profession in Africa, Europe and the Middle-East
Polite LaboyrieChairman of CEDA’s Environment Commission
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Update on Ceda’s Environment Commission
• Members• Mission• Strategy• Past activities• Future plans
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CEDA:
• is a vital network for the exchange of knowledge and experiences in dredging
• is a centre for communication and training about environmental aspects of dredging
• is a platform for promotion of dredging as a tool for sustainable development
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Members
• Olivier Piet FR• Gerrard van Raalte NL• Gilberto Paixao PR• Valeri Penchev BU• Igor Liska ICPDR• Anna Csiti
• Lindsay Murray UK• Heinz Glindeman GR• Anders Jensen DK• Helmuth Meyer GR• Antonio Navarro SP• Hugo de Vlieger BE• Emanuelle Zanotto IT
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Aims of CEC
• To promote the education and instruction of its members and others in those fields concerned with dredging and dredging-related activities.
• To generate and disseminate quality information on dredging and associated matters
• To develop or contribute to the development of guidelines relating to good practice.
• To stimulate (and join) the initiation of and/or support research relevant to dredging activities
• To be pro-active in providing expertise in relevant policy making activities
• To develop closer links with NGOs
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The big challenges for the dredging world the coming
years
• More people tend to live in low land areas• Climate change • Shifting economies (China, India, Mexico,
Brazil, Russia)• working with nature• The Energy of the future• Modal shift• Larger ships (Panama channel)
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Focus of the CEC
• More feedback and interaction with members
• Better profile (advancement notes, guidance, statements)
• The benefits of dredging
• Broaden the membership of CEC
• Pro active in legislation
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Activities
• Workshops/seminars• Taskgroups• Participating in LC, OSPAR, Danube
Commission• WFD Navigation Task Group “ • Positioning papers• Own guides• Other guides• Environmental Day on Wodcon• Best paper award
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Guides Environmental Aspects of Dredging (IADC/CEDA Guides)• Provide a balanced view• Lead reader through a state-of-the-art environmental
evaluation process• Provide access to more detailed references• Guidance for managers engineers and environmentalists• Guidance for developing countries
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Environmental Aspects of Dredging
• Edited by Nick Bray
• thoroughly rewritten and restructured,
• contributions from many experts, researchers and professionals (IADC/CEDA Editorial Advisory Board, the CEDA Environment Commission and the EuDA Environmental Committee and numerous IADC, CEDA, EADA and WEDA members
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London Convention
• Waste Assessment Guidance. Guidance for the development of Action Lists and Action Levels for Dredged Material
• WAG Low tech training • Workshops • Development of guidance for the placement of
Artificial Reefs • Sience Day on Use of Dredged Material
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Position Papers
• Dredging and the Environment
Working for society and with nature:
Dredging is a necessary activity to sustain and to further develop our water-infrastructure for society. Dredging is of increasing importance not only for development but also for improvement of the environment
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European Legislation
• Water Framework Directive• Marine Strategy Framework Directive• Waste Framework Directive• Soil Directive
And daughters
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Environmental Seminars
Overall aims with presenting the seminars• Education• Better legislation• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of
industry and consultanting engineers
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TrainingBased on the CEDA/IADC Guides:
IMO/UNEP Workshops– 1998: Capetown, South Africa– 2002: Kingston, Jamaica– 2004: Mombassa, Kenya– 2006: Dalian, China
DELFT University Post Graduate Programme – 2004 May– 2006 November– 2009 february
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Environmental Seminars
• 2005 Lisbon Portugal• 2007 Varna Bulgaria
• CEDA - MSI International Seminar "Dredging and the Environment“
Tallinn, Estonia15-16 October 2008
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Partnering
• Sednet• Pianc• IADC• EUDA• ESPO• PAO
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• Envicom report of the working group 13 on Best Management Practices applied to dredging and dredged material disposal project for protection of the environment.
• Envicom report of the working group 14 on Dredged Material beneficial use options and constrains.
• Envicom report of the working group 15 on Dredging and Port construction around Coral Reefs
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“We pass on knowledge that thinks of dredging as a tool for sustainable development and we try to make your job easier by advising governments and international conventions on how to make the environmental legislation workable”