- Revision of Framework Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004
- Current legislative priorities
- Future compliance expectations
Ales Bartl advises clients on regulatory compliance of a broad range of products marketed in the EU. Ales primarily
focuses on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), the Classification, Labelling, and
Packaging (CLP) regulation, Biocidal Products Regulation, Fertilizer Regulation, food law, regulation of electronic products, and product safety.
Ales represents clients in the European Courts and in procedures before the Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). He also represents clients in various proceedings before the ECHA and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), as well as before EU and national competent authorities on compliance and enforcement issues, including withdrawals and recalls of unsafe or non-compliant products.
Prior to joining Keller and Heckman, Ales interned at the European Commission and worked for almost ten years as an EU regulatory associate at two international law firms in Brussels.
Peter graduated from York University with a BA in Chemistry and from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology with a PhD in polymer science. He has worked in the resins and coatings industries in various roles. He is currently Regulatory Affairs Manager (in Europe) for The Valspar Corporation and is actively involved in activities to support the can coating business and food contact, some of which are chairing the industry consortium involved in the 7th Framework Programme for developing a risk management tool to assess exposure to migrants from food packaging (FACET) and the Coatings Code of Practice group in addition to supporting other trade association initiatives. The latest initiative is in critiquing conditions in the migration guidelines for the plastics regulation and where they are inappropriate for non-plastics in association with numerous professional associations.
Peter has published widely – over 18 books and peer reviewed scientific articles.
Mike Dickinson is a Managing Scientist for the global engineering and scientific consulting firm Exponent. Based out of Harrogate, North Yorkshire , UK Mike supports clients in food and feed related regulatory challenges, primarily for the UK, EU and US. This includes dossier compilation and submission to the relevant authority.
From 2003, Mike previously worked for Fera Science Ltd (was Central Science Laboratory) as an analytical chemist for 18 years specialising in developing and accrediting new methodologies and implementing non-targeted analysis applications using high-resolution mass spectrometry. Before joining Exponent in 2024, Mike spent 3.5 years at the Food Standards Agency, UK where he was a Team Leader in the chemical risk assessment unit, managing a team responsible for regulated product risk assessment of food contact materials, food additives and flavourings.
Alessandro Moresco is a regulatory compliance and product stewardship expert with extensive experience in food contact materials and packaging safety. He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Padova achieved in 2006 and has worked throughout his career on regulatory and compliance topics affecting the food packaging supply chain.
After joining hubergroup Italy in 2016 with responsibility for Product Safety for food F&G packaging inks, he expanded his expertise through a leadership role as Regulatory Affairs Manager in the plastics industry. Since 2022, he’s working as Product Compliance Manager at hubergroup Germany with a global role, overseeing compliance activities for conventional sheet-fed offset and UV-curing sheet-fed offset printing inks and varnishes.
Alessandro is actively engaged in industry advocacy and standard-setting initiatives through organizations such as EuPIA (European Printing Inks Association) and the Italian national printing ink association. in November 2025 he was appointed as Chairman of the EuPIA PiFood (Printing Inks for Food Packaging), one of the two main committees of senior experts at EuPIA.
Inge van Schöll is a Senior Project Manager and Scientific Expert within the Food-Contact Material team of Triskelion.
Company name: Ducares B.V., trading as TRISKELION (part of the Certania group)
Inge is an expert on food contact regulations and analytical method development. She has a focus on petitioning new substances to be used in food contact materials, mainly for the EU and USA.
With her 30 years of background in chromatography and mass spectrometry, Inge has developed many analytical methods for small molecules, metabolites, peptides, proteins and oligomers.
Beate has accumulated over 15 years of expertise as the Head of Regulatory Affairs, where she manages the safety and compliance of packaging materials for Constantia Flexibles worldwide. She follows global regulatory developments and provides regulatory support to ensure the compliance of the manufactured products. Beate attained her Doctorate in Technical Chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology, focusing her studies on photochemistry. This background allows her to also deep dive into analytical challenges related to the safety evaluation of packaging materials and used raw materials by closely working with internal and external laboratories.
From 2014 to 2020, Annika König studied food chemistry at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg/Germany. Afterwards, she completed her practical apprenticeship as an officially certified food chemist at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority.
As of 2022, she has been working at ISEGA Forschungs- und Untersuchungsgesellschaft mbH in Aschaffenburg/Germany and is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of food contact materials in the field of paper, board and tissue grades.
Jose Antonio has been involved in the Plastics industry for 40 years, and devote most of it career to the PET industry, involved in Virgin PET, Co-polyesters, Recycling and Packaging business working for Multinational companies.
Since 2017, Jose Antonio is CEO of IGSB, a consulting firm working in multiple products related to PET and polyester in General, with particular focus on circular Economy.
Between 2018 and 2020 collaborated in Petcore Europe as Technical Manager working on the Thermoforming group. In December 2022, started back its collaboration with Petcore Europe Secretary of the Functional Barrier Consortium. Additionally, is working as technical manager on the Thermoforming Working group focused in the circularity of PET thermoformed packaging.
Dr. Christian Kirchnawy studied food and biotechnology in Vienna. Since his doctor thesis in technical chemistry he is working on the safety assessment of food contact materials and medical devices at the Austrian Research Institute OFI. Today, a special focus of his research is on the safety evaluation of recycled plastic.
Hazel O'Keeffe counsels clients on the regulation of food-contact materials, notably in the European Union (EU), Switzerland and the United Kingdom, focusing on establishing a suitable status for all types of food-contact materials at both the EU and national level.
Hazel helps clients navigate the complexities of applying the principle of mutual recognition to facilitate the free movement of non-harmonized products throughout the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA), and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. She advises on inter alia, EU requirements for biocides, materials in contact with drinking water, personal protective equipment, packaging waste and single-use plastics, medicinal products/European Pharmacopoeia, medical devices, cosmetics, fluorinated greenhouse gases, ozone depleting substances and recycling and green claims.
She completed an internship at the European Commission during which she specialized in relations with the European Parliament and gained first-hand experience of the workings of the EU institutions.
Hazel is a contributing author to PackagingLaw.com, as well as related industry publications, and is frequently invited to speak at international food-contact conferences.
Sabine Lindner a Biologist holding a PhD from Bonn University worked from 1994 to 2007 for the German Vinyl Association.
Since 2007 she is with PlasticsEurope Deutschland where she is responsible for consumer an environmental issues as food contact materials, toys, drinking water contact materials, building and construction products, nanomaterials, PVC and Bioplastics.
Additionally she is facilitator of several working groups at PlasticsEurope and coordinating related activities throughout Europe for: Food Contact Materials, Drinking Water Contact Materials
Koen Weel is a food technologist with a PhD in analytical chemistry. He has been working in the domain of food contact materials since 2004, at baby food manufacturer Royal Numico, ISACert NL (certification body), TNO Triskelion (managing FCM compliance studies) and Danone Specialized Nutrition in a global role in packaging specifications, food safety and compliance. He currently works for The Coca-Cola Company Europe in Scientific and Regulatory Affairs focusing on FCM. He is chairing the FCM taskforce of the European soft drinks association UNESDA. At PETCORE EUROPE he chairs the NIAS working group and the Lab Cluster steering committee.
Zahra, Product Stewardship at BASF, has worked at the company since beginning of 2023. She is working on dispersion and resin polymeric products in relation to food contact and polymer safety.
Before joining BASF she was involved in several academic and industrial projects as a research scien-tist. She did her PhD at ICIQ institute, Spain and ran several projects for Henkel and Covestro compa-nies during her post-doctoral research resulting in numerous patents and publications.
Graduated in chemistry in 1989, then a Master in Environmental Sciences from 1989 to 1991. Ph.D in analytical chemistry in the field of Ecotoxicology at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne.
Scientific collaborator within the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne during 4 years.
He joined Nestlé Research Center in June 1998, working on packaging safety and compliance.
From 2007 to 2010, he moved to Nestlé Switzerland for the implementation of the packaging safety and compliance strategy of Nestlé Group.
2011 back to Nestlé Research Center to manage a project on adhesives.
Since beginning 2014, Senior Packaging Safety & Compliance Expert for the European Zone
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Mark Roberts has worked in the plastics recycling sector for more than 15 years and has a First-Class honours degree in Polymer Science and Technology. He was the Managing Director of a recycling business acquired by Berry in 2018 and now has a central role within Berry CPI with a broad-ranging brief to accelerate and deliver circular economy growth, including providing Technical and Regulatory leadership for the new cutting-edge recycling facility in Leamington Spa, a concept he first brought to the business back in 2019.