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Two important events on the subject of micro-sensors recently took place during which the LCSQA central air quality laboratory presented its papers.

The Central Laboratory for Monitoring Air Quality (LCSQA/Ineris) has taken part in a European inter-laboratory comparison exercise recently organized by the JRC (Joint Research Centre) / EC Centre for Scientific Research for the measurement of gaseous inorganic pollutants (carbon monoxide CO, nitrogen oxides NOx, sulphur dioxide, SO2, ozone O3).

Ineris participates to this event through a keynote lecture by Farid Laouafa, senior researcher in advanced numerical modelling in geomechanics with multi-physics.

In conjunction with the competent French and Danish authorities, about a year and a half ago, the institute proposed a method for the determination of “dustiness” related to nanoparticles.

On 4 April in Nancy, the Institute took part in the first Technical Workshop for the DEEPSURF project, which was launched in November 2018 as part of the I-SITE LUE programme.

On 17 April in Casablanca (Morocco), a partnership agreement was signed between Ineris formation, a subsidiary of Ineris, the Fédération de la Chimie et de la Parachimie (FCP) and the Centre des Services de la Chimie (CSC) in Morocco.

The Institute participated in the launch of CITYAir on 9 April this year in Ankara, Turkey, in the presence of senior officials from the Turkish Ministry of the Environment, the European Commission and the ambassadors of the countries involved in the consortium. The purpose of this European Commission-funded project is to improve air quality in Turkey, in particular by transferring and applying the knowledge acquired by the European Union in matters of ambient air quality.

With the aim of prohibiting the use of bisphenol A in thermal papers with effect from 2 January 2020, the Belgian public authorities, in collaboration with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), organised a meeting in Brussels on 26 March to discuss the replacement of bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal papers.

On 14 March 2019, Mr Pascal Hector, the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, visited the GRHYD demonstrator at Cappelle La Grande (59).