European Compost Network: Presentation of ECN Country representatives

	Title	Mr.
	First Name	Enzo Vittorio
	Last Name	Favoino
	Company	Integrated Waste Management Research Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza
	Department
	Street	Viale Cavriga 3
	Postcode/Town	20052 Monza (MI)
	Country	Italy
	Phone
	Fax
	Mobile
	Email	enzofavoino@alice.it
	Internet	www.monzaflora.it
	Nationality	Italian
	Date of birth	5 July 1964
	Education	Professional studies 01/1984 to 03/1990 Institution: University of Milan Degree : M.Sc. Agronomic Sciences
	Specialities	Language Skills Italian, English, French, German
	Key Qualifications	Management of Municipal Solid Waste; Waste Collection; Source Separation schemes; Plans for Integrated Waste Management; Composting of biowaste and Biological Treatment of residual waste; enforcement and/or implementation of EU Directives such as Dir. 1999/31/EC on landfilling and Dir. 86/278/EC on land application of sewage sludge; technical legislation on composting, landfilling and integrated waste management in Italy and other Member States and Applicant Countries (with particular reference to the Czech and Slovak Rep.)

Work Experience
1990 to present Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Consulting services to Public Bodies (Regions, Districts, Municipalities, Ministries) about schemes for source separation, composting, treatment of restwaste prior to landfilling, development of Waste Management Plans. 2001 - 2004 Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Research on “Heavy Metals and Organic Compounds from Wastes to be Used as Organic Fertilisers”, intended to provide the EC with background data and knowledge to define quality and limit values for landspreading organic waste; the research also included definition of a “”scientific concept” to establish threshold values in composts to gain the legal status of a product 11/2003 to 12/2004 Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Support to the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic Management, coordination and expertise in the frame of the Twinning Light Project “Optimisation of Management of Biodegradable Waste”, intended to define the strategy for biowaste management in Slovakia, thereby enforcing EU strategies and provisions 09/2002 to 07/2003 Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Support to Province of Turin Training programme for officers at the Czech Ministry of Environment for capacity building on the implementation of EU waste management strategies; funded through a PHARE programme 10/2001 - 10/2002 Support to WRAP - Waste and Resources Action Programme Study on “Comparison of Compost Standards within the EU, North America and Australasia”, including also specifications on “low-grade” materials coming from mixed waste composting and MBT processes 2001 - 2002 Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Support to ECOTEC (on behalf of the EC) Supply of technical inputs for the survey “Economic assessment of options for managing the biodegradable fraction of Municipal Waste”, tender awarded by the EC, Waste Unit, to get an assessment of legislative actions to be taken to implement strategies on biowaste management, consistently with provisions of the Landfill Directive. 1999 - 2000 Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza Support to Task Force on Waste Management in Region Campania Participation in the Working Groups committed to drawing guidelines and plans for the development of source separation. Lay-out and assessment of projects of new facilities both for composting of biowaste and for biological treatment of restwaste. Positions Chairman of the ISWA Working Group on Biological Treatment Vice-chairman of the European Compost Network ECN and Country Representative for Italy International expert on source separation and composting for WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme, a public-private initiative supported by the English Government to promote recycling) Former Member of the Scientific Committee of ANPA (Italian National Environment Agency) Invited Expert on management of biowaste in the European Climate Change Programme, WG “agriculture” and sub-WG “Sinks in Soils”

Publications
2004 Publisher: Ministry of Environment - Slovak Republic Handbook for local authorities on biowaste management 11/2002 Publisher: ACRR “Biowaste and Climate Change: a strategic assessment of composting” Proc. ACRR Conference “Waste Management and Climate Change”, Paris 04/2002 Publisher: European Commission “Optimisation and cost-assessment of high-capture sorting schemes for compostable waste”, Proc. EC Conference “Biological Treatment of Biodegradable Waste: Technical Aspects”. Brussels “Composting and Climate Change: a preliminary assessment” Proc. EC Conference “Biological Treatment of Biodegradable Waste: Technical Aspects”. Brussels 01/2001 Publisher: ANPA - National Environmental Agency “Composting and integrated waste management in Southern European Countries”, Proc. International Conference “Soil and Biowaste in Southern Europe, ANPA, Rome