Conference Overview and Outcomes:

Coinciding with the 2024 Annual Meeting of the IEC Quality Assessment System, IECQ, this international conference was hosted by JASANZ, the Australian National Member Body of IECQ, in collaboration with the IEC Global Impact Fund (IEC-GIF). The event brought together industry, regulators, conformity assessment bodies, and technical experts to explore how environmental services, conformity assessment, and project-based collaboration can advance circular economy goals across the Asia-Pacific region.

The conference highlighted the important role of IECQ services, the SERI R2 standard, and IEC’s broader sustainability agenda in addressing environmental performance, e-waste management, and the credibility of environmental claims.

Conference Key themes:

• Lowering the environmental impact of electrical/electronic goods through design, reuse, recycling, and responsible disposal.

• The links between electrical/electronic goods manufacture/design/disposal, records management, and information security, and specific example of the SERI R2 Scheme.

• Reliance on Environmental performance claims, noting the pending EU Green Claims Directive

• The work of the IEC Global Impact Fund and opportunities for project-level activities in the Asia Pacific region to support circular economy objectives.

Building Trust in Environmental Services – supporting a Circular Economy

Program

Download via ZIP - 2024 IECQ Conference Decks and Program

Invitation: 

JASANZ, the Australian National Member Organisation for the IEC Quality Assessment System, IECQ, invites you to participate in this important event.

This international event is a sponsored event with attendance free of charge as both JASANZ and the IEC seek to host this informative even to coincide with the 2024 Annual IECQ General meeting being held in Brisbane.

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Request for your ideas and presence at an international workshop to develop innovative project proposals for e-waste in the Asia Pacific region, and Conference Agenda 

The existing services of IECQ, together with the SERI R2 standard, cover the entirety of a product lifecycle and provide unique opportunities for industry led e-waste initiatives. 

The IEC Global Impact Fund (IEC–GIF) advances the vision of “a safer and more efficient world” and demonstrates the catalytic impact of international standards and conformity assessment systems in addressing many of today’s social, economic and environmental challenges and in ensuring that technology and quality infrastructure have a positive impact on society. Harnessing such technical solutions and best practices can help address some of the most urgent, global issues such as climate change, energy access and waste management. 

As part of its project portfolio expansion into the Asia-Pacific region, IEC would like to solicit feedback on the following question: ‘What industry led projects could Australia and New Zealand initiate to improve the circular economy for electronics and electrical goods in the Asia Pacific Region?’ 

Pre-conference survey form:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZTJQBVN 

In addition, we encourage you to send suggestions of project proposals to tsb@jasanz.org, cc Matt Doherty at the IEC Global Impact Fund (matthew.doherty@iec.ch). 

We hope you enjoyed reading our discussion paper. We look forward to hearing your ideas for innovative industry-led projects for e-waste in the Asia Pacific, and seeing you in person in Brisbane (Rydges South Bank, 9 Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) or online on Thursday 18 April 2024. 

The IEC-GIF and JASANZ International Conference agenda and Discussion Paper are linked below. 

2024 IEC Global Impact Fund and JASANZ International Conference Program 

2024 IEC Global Impact Fund and JASANZ International Conference Discussion Paper 

An online meeting link is below. 

Online attendance link (18 April 2024):
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84041967788