The Year Ahead

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The Year Ahead

• Magne Haugseng
• Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit

2
Role

• Constituency of interest
• Counterweight to global business
• Lobby group
• government
• business
• Act local think global

3
Profile

• Continue to build
• All Party Political Group
• Industry
• Government Agencies
• CIA
• CEFIC

4
Develop the organisation

• If we only knew how much we knew
• Statoil

5
Climate Change

• Mapping the impact
• Lobby on implementation
• Levy
• Emission trading
• As is, the proposal is highly divisive

6
Climate Change

• Rebate via National Insurance, widens the
  North-South divide
• Service sector benefits
• low energy - high staff numbers
• Chemical industry suffers
• high energy - low staff numbers

7
Training

• Skills required v. courses offered
• LSC - important role
• Degree debate
• Age groups

8
Intellectual capital

• The response to
• shorter product lifespans
• technological advances
• pressure on Gross Value Added (GVA)
• Company ability to respond

9
Derelict land

• Chemical industry
• A mature industry in constant change
• Technology and process
• Competitive edge
• Modern plants lt older plants

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Derelict land

• Some DICIDA land is contaminated high
  reuse cost
• DICIDA areas amongst the most deprived in the
  country
• DICIDA land prices are already depressed
• DICIDA land re-development is uneconomic

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Derelict land

• Partnership Investment Programme PIP, abolition
  exacerbated situation
• Lowered threshold for viable development costs,
  i.e. far more impact in DICIDA areas than in the
  South East

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Derelict land action

• Did
• site survey
• site prioritisation
• talked to the Environment Agency
• Next
• bring RDAs together
• standardise approach
• work to develop new finance mechanism

13
Interreg IIIC

• Managing change
• Community relationship
• Training provision

14
Stakeholder Forum

• Very resource demanding
• Even if DICIDA is not represented, we need to
  track the issues. We represent a large portion of
  stakeholders.
• Input
• Feed-back
• Lobby

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Energy pricing

• Feedstock availability
• lobby
• land/planning issues?
• Competitiveness

16
All Party Group

• Second meeting
• Second speaker at annual dinner
• Prospect of regular meetings with joint agendas

17
Technology Foresight

• Chemical Panel
• Commented on the last report
• IT and e-commerce
• Public sector dimension land, skills,
  infrastructure, environment

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CEFICEuropean Chemical Industry Council

• CEFIC is increasingly dealing directly with the
  European Commission
• Delegated to national levels
• DICIDA needs to enter the European stage

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DICIDA

• Still a voluntary organisation
• Totally dependent on members resources
• It works, because we believe in it