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02. Oct. 2024 (Wednesday)

The Hungarian Association of Environmental Enterprises (HAEE) organizes a biannual international professional conference to present the results and challenges in the field of remediation, sharing the latest research and development results and professional experiences. This year's conference will take place within the framework of the ENVIRONTEC powered by ÖKOINDUSTRIA international environmental industry trade fair on 2^nd October 2024 in Budapest, at the HUNGEXPO Exhibition and Congress Centre.

One of the priority topics of the Hungarian EU Presidency in the second half of 2024 is the development of EU regulatory frameworks for soil contamination and measures aimed at preventing and eliminating pollution. In this context, Hungary is carrying out the EU's legislative task on monitoring soil and restoring soil health, which started in 2022. The proposed legislation regulates measures for the assessment, registration and restoration of contaminated soils. The development of the legislation is closely linked to the European Commission's New Soil Strategy adopted in 2021, which sets out medium- and long-term (2050) measures to comprehensively protect soils that are currently lacking in EU environmental legislation, linked to existing EU environmental strategies.

Beside this, there is an ongoing effort to renew the Hungarian remediation regulation, with emphasis not only on the remediation of contaminated sites, but also on the rehabilitation of brownfield and rust belt areas.

The planned event provides an opportunity to discuss domestic and EU remediation issues, current problems, goals-plans, legislative and implementation tasks, share good practices and techniques, and present the use of abandoned industrial/commercial/military/transport facility areas for new functions.

Information about the former Re:Brown confrences: https://kszgysz.hu/en/previous-conferences

Presenters: Representatives of the European Commission, NICOLE, Common Forum Europe and other international and national remediation experts

Who do we recommend participation to? For domestic and foreign professional organizations, experts and enterprises dealing with the situation exploration and implementation of contaminated sites, for representatives of science, as well as for companies with such fields, state actors, authority and legislative experts.

Planned duration of professional presentations:  2*2 hours (approx.)

Interpretation will be provided for those attending the conference. 

Program (preliminary)

Date: 2. October 2024

Place: HUNGEXPO international exhibition area „…” pavilion
Hungary, 1101 Budapest, Albertirsai út 10.

Registration: 9.30 – 10.00

Chairman: Gábor Hasznos, Ministry of Energy

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Date: 29-30 November 2022 (Tuesday-Wednesday) 
Event venue: H-1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2., National University of Public Service

Patron of the conference: Deputy State Secretary for the Environment at the Ministry of Technology and Industry.

Every two years, The Hungarian Association of Environmental Enterprises organizes a professional conference to present the results and challenges of field remediation, to share the latest research and development results, professional experience and to explore funding sources available in the next period. 
This international conference will take place in this year on 29-30 November, in Budapest. 

The participants of this two-day conference can learn about the global trends of remediation and the frameworks and developments of different national programmes. 

We will present a guide on how to deal with environmental problems in the winding-up of failing businesses, commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture, earlier this year.

We will present also the most up-to-date technological solutions on the field of pollutant measuring and sampling, remediation techniques and provide an opportunity to introduce the results of surveying the environmental and health-related risks of the abandoned, polluted industrial areas and the results of sustainable rehabilitation: https://kszgysz.hu/en/re-brown-2022

Beside the eminent representatives of science, professional organizations, experts and enterprises engaged in the exploration and construction works on contaminated sites, the companies, state actors, official and legislative specialists dealing with such sites will present modern methods of decontamination and subsequent rehabilitation of damaged, contaminated sites.

In addition to presenting international and national R&D results and good examples, we will also visit a current brownfield action area to see what needs to be done for its rehabilitation.

You can follow the relevant news on the social media via: 

https://www.linkedin.com/events/k-rmentes-t-s-srehabilit-ci-rem6994216636870213632

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We would be pleased if you could attend the event.

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Professional supporters: National University of Public Service

Programme of the conference:

29 November 2022, Tuesday

9.30 Registration 

Chairman: Mr. Dr. Csaba Ágoston president, Hungarian Association of Environmental Enterprises (HAEE)
10.30 – 10.40	Welcome speech Mr. Dr. Tibor Bíró, Dean of National University of Public Service Faculty of Water Sciences
10.40 – 11.00	Remediation facing new challenges – coherence with strategies, alignment with EU priority topics, financing options Mrs. Zsuzsanna Dócsné Balogh, Managing Director, Trenecon Ltd.
11.00 – 11.20	Upcoming EU regulation, the Soil Strategy for 2030 and revitalising contaminated land Mr. Dietmar Müller-Grabherr General Secretary, Common Forum
11.20 – 11.40	Tasks in urban planning, connections Mr. Márk Gombos, Head of department, Ministry of Construction and Investment
11.40 – 11.50	Questions and answers
11.50 – 12.05	Coffee break
12.05 – 12.25	Remediation activities under the liability of the State Mr. Csaba Tóth, Managing director, Nitrokémia Plc.
12.25 – 12.45	Brownfield Dialogue – the new Austrian initiative to enhance revitalization Ms. Sabine Rabl-Berger, environmental expert, Environment Agency Austria
12.45 – 13.05	Environmental Burdens of Remediation – Remediation Guide Mr. Csaba Markó, technical director, HAEE Ms. dr. Beáta Kispál, expert, Hungarian Association of Insolvency Practitioners and Asset Controllers
13.05 – 13.15	Questions and answers
13.15 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 14.20	Experience of public authorities Mr. Dr. Szabolcs Cserkúti, Head of Division, Government Office of Pest County
14.20 – 14.40	Foreign remediation examples Mr. Gábor Raska, MRICS, Head of Business Unit, Property & Transactions, denkstatt
14.40 – 15.00	Opening speech – Remediation strategy and regulation, trends and plans Ms. Nikoletta Keszthelyi, Deputy State Secretary for the Environment at the Ministry of Technology and Industry
15.00 – 15.10	Questions and answers
15.10 – 15.25	Coffee break

	Section A: Remediation case studies Bilingual interpretation		Section B: Remediation technologies in Hungarian
	Chairman: Gergely Hankó, managing director, HAEE		Chairman: Csaba Markó, ASZEK director, HAEE
15.25 – 15.45	Development of a brownfield into a Bosch Campus in Budapest Mr. Hartwig Bayersdorf contaminated site manager, Bosch Group		Development of in situ bioremediation technology for sites with short-chain chlorinated hydrocarbons contamination Mr. Gergely Krett, Microbiologist, ELTE Department of Microbiology
15.45 – 16.05	Case studies based on experience of rail site remediation Mr. Zoltán Lénárt, Environmental Expert, Hungarian State Railways		Support of soil and groundwater remediation with geophysical methods Mr. János Stickel, Professional Director, Elgoscar Plc.
16.05 – 16.25	State of the art High Resolution Site Characterisation and the 3D conceptual site model Mr. Pieter Buffel, Teamleader HRSC Services, EnISSA		Vertical water quality distributions in thick, uniform water taxes and their detection by sampling Ms. Ágnes Réka Máthé, remediation expert assistant, Adept Enviro Ltd.
16.25 – 16.40	Coffee break
16.40 – 17.00	Sodium Persulfate with Integrated Activator Destroys >99% of Trichlorethylene in 5 Weeks at a Manufacturing Facility in Holland Mr. Michael Mueller, Business Development Manager, Soil & Groundwater Remediation, EMEA, Evonik Operations GmbH		Development of bioaugmentation injection materials for the remediation of contamination by aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and their chlorinated derivatives and their potential for field application Ms. Dr. Zsuzsanna Nagymáté, Microbiologist, scientific advisor, Fermentia Microbiology Ltd.
17.00 – 17.20	The innovative spin injection technology pushes boundaries of in situ soil remediation (case studies) Mr. Jeroen Vandenbruwane, Director, Injectis Co.		Biological treatment options for metal-containing wastes (mine waste, red sludge) Ms. Margit Balázs, Bay Zoltán Non-profit Ltd., Biotechnological Institute
17.20 – 17.40	The New Museum of Transport at the plot of the former Northern Maintenance Depot Mr. Gábor Raska, MRICS, Head of Business Unit, Property & Transactions, denkstatt		Determination of (D) remediation target values on ecotoxicological basis for hydrocarbon contaminated sediments Mr. Béla Finta project manager, BGT Hungaria
17.40 – 19.00	Networking

 30 November 2022, Wednesday

Chairman: Dr. Csaba Ágoston president, HAEE

10.15 – 10.20	Welcome speech Mr. Dr. Csaba Ágoston president, HAEE
10.20 – 10.40	Data and definitions in the Hungarian Environmental Legislation that require clarification alias Let’s arrange our ranks! Mr. Artúr Köhler remediation specialist, Adept Enviro Ltd.
10.40 – 11.00	Oxygenates and their biodegradability – selective microbiological injection material development Mr. Dr. Balázs Fehér, Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd., Biotechnological Institute
10.00 – 11.20	Ecotoxicological methods supporting implementation of site remediations Mr. Dr. István Szabó, Head of Department, Associate Professor, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
11.20 – 11.40	Resilience performance assessment (RPA) for brownfields, with Hungarian examples Ms. Iryna Parakhnenko, General Manager, Sixense Monitoring Hungarian Branch Office
11.40 – 12.00	Orczy-kert bus garage decontamination - practical experience The remediation and rehabilitation of the Orczy Garden Mr. Béla Farkas projektmanager, Envirotis Holding
12.00 – 12.20	Questions and answers
1220 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 15.00	A completed rehabilitation project: Introduction of the Orczy Garden Professional presenters: Envirotis Plc., National University of Public Service

All the presentations are available with Hungarian-English simultaneous interpretation.

In person registration is now closed, you can only register for online streaming.

Online participation fee for 1 or 2. day: 18 500 Ft + VAT/person  (45 EUR + VAT)
Online participation fee for both days: 37 000 Ft + VAT/person (90 EUR + VAT)

It is also possible to support the conference in the following categories:

"Gold sponsor" (up to 2 sponsors), over EUR 2500 (gross): free participation for 2 people, displaying the name and logo as a Gold sponsor, as well as projecting and roll-up during the duration of the event;

"Silver sponsor" between EUR 1250 and EUR 2250 (gross): appearance as a Silver sponsor on communication materials;

"Bronze sponsor" between EUR 750  – EUR 1250 (gross): appearing on communication materials as a Bronze sponsor

HUNGEXPO Kiállítói és Kongresszusi Központ
1101 Budapest, Albertirsai út 10.

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact our staff:

Csaba Markó Email: [email protected] Tel.: +36305371003

Imre Király  Email: [email protected] Tel.: +36305365010

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See the latest program of the conference: https://kszgysz.hu/en/program