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Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire
Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs
Commission de l’environnement, de l’agriculture et des questions territoriales
AS/ENA (2008) 42 rev.
29 October 2008
AENA08_42 rev.
Conference on Environment and Health
Indoor Pollution and Multi System Illnesses
to be held in STRASBOURG
(Palais de l’Europe, Room 1)
on 5 December 2008
Draft Programme
09.00
Registration of participants
09.20 – 09.40 OPENING SESSION
Welcome by Mr Alan MEALE, Chairman of the Committee on the Environment,
Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE)
Introduction by Mr Jean HUSS, Rapporteur of the Committee on the
Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs of the PACE
“From awareness to prevention”
09.40 – 11.20 SESSION 1:INDOOR POLLUTION
Chair:
Mr Alan MEALE, Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Agriculture
and Local and Regional Affairs of the PACE
Speakers:
Mr Ralph BADEN, Ministry of Health of Luxembourg
Experiences and information from green ambulances in Luxembourg
Professor Frederic de BLAY, Responsible for the training programme on indoor
pollution, University Hospital of Strasbourg, France
Experiences of medical advisors on indoor environment
Exchange of views
Dr Gerd OBERFELD, Sanitary Land Directorate for Environmental Medicine,
Austria, Physical burden: EMF, other radiation, noise
Exchange of views
11.20 – 12.40 SESSION 2:
ENVIRONMENTALLY CAUSED MULTI SYSTEMIC ILLNESSES
Chair:
Mr Paul Flynn, Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the PACE
Speakers:
Mrs Katherin OTTE, Leader of the Association of victims of environment-related
health problems – MCS Selbsthilfegruppe Umweltgeschädigter - Germany
Mr André CICOLELLA, Adviser to the Scientific Director, National Institute of
Risks and Industrial Environment (INERIS), France
Scientific paradigm change: health effects of chronic long-term, low dose toxic
burdening
Dr Kurt E. MÜLLER, Chairman of the European Academy for Environmental
Medicine, Germany
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Exchange of views
12.40 – 13.40 Lunch
13.40 – 15.30 SESSION 3:
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION: EFFECTS ON ORGANISMS
Chair:
Mr Paolo RONDELLI, Rapporteur of the Congress of Local and Regional Affairs
on indoor pollution of buildings and living spaces
Speakers:
Professor Charles SULTAN, Endocrinology and Pediatric Gynecology,
Hormonology Development and Reproduction, Lapeyronie Hospital of
Montpellier, France
Endocrine System: fertility, paranatal disturbances
Dr S.c. Jean-Marc MICHELS, Laboratory of the Clinic Ste Thérèse, Luxembourg
Immune system dysfunction, allergy, pseudo allergy, autoimmunity
Professor Martin PALL, Biochemical and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington
State University, USA
Central nervous system: parkinsonism, depression, vertigo, tinnitus explained by
biochemical effects
Dr Eckart SCHNAKENBERG, Institute for pharmacogenetic and genetic
disposition, Germany
Enzyme system: detoxification, genetical polymorphism
Point of view of a journalist (to be confirmed)
Exchange of views
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
CLOSING SESSION
15.45
Dr Peter OHNSORGE, European Academy for Environmental Medicine e.V.,
Germany
What strategy can we implement in Europe?
16.05 – 17.50 ROUND TABLE: Information and disinformation
With the participation of parliamentarians, representatives of the scientific and
medical world and the media (names to be confirmed)
17.50
Conclusions by Mr Jean HUSS, Rapporteur of the Committee on the
Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs of the PACE
18.00
Closure of the conference
Committee Secretariat
Mrs Agnès NOLLINGER, Secretary of the Committee
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e-mail: agnes.nollinger@coe.int
Mr Bogdan TORCATORIU, Co-Secretary
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Mrs Dana KARANJAC, Co-Secretary
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e-mail: dana.karanjac@coe.int
Mrs Hazel BASTIER, Principal Assistant
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e-mail: hazel.bastier@coe.int
Mrs Eliza KOPEC, Assistant
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Press
Mr Francesc FERRER
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