16 - 18 September 2025
Novotel Barcelona City
Barcelona, Spain
2025: Navigating new challenges under the BPR
Strategic BPR Compliance: Key Regulatory Focus Areas
- Product Family Framework: Gain clarity on current regulatory interpretations of product family boundaries, maximizing portfolio coverage while ensuring compliance with grouping criteria.
- In-situ Active Substance Management: Navigate the complex regulatory landscape for in-situ generated substances with practical approaches to precursor classification, monitoring requirements, and upcoming regulatory developments.
- Treated Articles Compliance Strategies: Master the regulatory distinction between treated articles and biocidal products, including labelling requirements, claims limitations, and enforcement priorities across member states.
- Evidence-Based Efficacy Documentation: Optimise testing strategies that satisfy regulatory requirements while balancing cost considerations, including acceptable performance thresholds and risk-based approaches to efficacy demonstration.
Regulatory Intelligence: Critical Insights from BPR Authorities
- Direct Engagement with Competent Authorities: Access exclusive regulatory intelligence directly from decision-makers, including interpretation of complex requirements, upcoming guidance changes, and authority expectations for successful submissions.
- Gain valuable insights from real-world case studies of successful Union Authorization applications.
- Mutual Recognition: Discover how authorities are addressing cross-border consistency issues, learn effective strategies for overcoming objections during the mutual recognition procedure
Same Biocidal Product Applications: Efficiency Strategies
BPR Dossier Excellence: Strategic Preparation Approaches
- Authority-Specific Requirements: Decode varying expectations across Member States to optimize first-time approval rates and minimize costly information requests during evaluation.
- Tailored Submission Strategies: Master the nuanced differences in documentation requirements between single products, product families, and change applications to streamline regulatory pathways.
- Technical Documentation Mastery: Navigate complex data requirements with precision, including essential testing protocols, acceptable read-across approaches, and documentation standards that satisfy regulatory scrutiny.
- Success Blueprint Analysis: Learn from real-world approved submissions, including critical decision points, effective data presentation techniques, and strategies that secured favourable outcomes with challenging applications.
Key BPR Track Sessions Tailored for Your Expertise
BPR Implementation and Review Programme
Gain comprehensive insights into BPR implementation successes and challenges with Claudio Carlon, Head of Unit at ECHA for Active Substances
Explore a decade of BPR progress and industry impact with Dr. Boris Van Berlo, Senior Sector Group Manager at Biocides for Europe (CEFIC)
Stay updated on legal developments including the extension of the review program
Innovation Under Regulatory Constraints
Discover strategies for driving innovation within BPR constraints with Pierre Cruse, Biocides Policy Team Leader at HSE
Explore the future of biocides regulation and preservation challenges with David Ashworth, Biocides Expert at Klarus Consulting
Critical Regulatory Challenges
Master endocrine disruptor assessment criteria and regulatory implications for biocidal substances
Learn about balancing in vitro and in vivo studies for ED assessments
Understand simplified authorization procedures, including Same Biocidal Product procedure and Union Authorization
Emerging Scientific Approaches
Advance your knowledge of non-animal testing methods with Tess Renahan from PETA Science Consortium International
Explore dietary risk assessment, MRLs, and animal safety with Michael Werner from Stockmeier Chemie
Understand PFAS restrictions and substitution strategies in biocidal products