CENTRAL DREDGING
ASSOCIATION - CEDA
The leading professional association for dredging
serving you and the profession in
Africa, Europe and the Middle-East
Polite Laboyrie
Chairman of CEDA’s Environment Commission
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Update on Ceda’s Environment
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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
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Olivier Piet FR
Gerrard van Raalte NL
Gilberto Paixao PR
Valeri Penchev BU
Igor Liska ICPDR
Anna Csiti
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Lindsay Murray UK
Heinz Glindeman GR
Anders Jensen DK
Helmuth Meyer GR
Antonio Navarro SP
Hugo de Vlieger BE
Emanuelle Zanotto IT
Aims of CEC
• To promote the education and instruction of its members and
others in those fields concerned with dredging and dredgingrelated 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
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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
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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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Training
Based 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, Estonia
15-16 October 2008
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Partnering
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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”
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