This report was prepared by the OECD Environment Directorate, under the leadership of Director Rodolfo Lacy and the subsidiary Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division led by Simon Buckle. The project manager and author of the report is Hannah Leckie. The project was delivered under the supervision of Bob Diderich, Head of the Environment Health and Safety Division, and Xavier Leflaive, Water Team Leader.
The Secretariat gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the delegates of Working Party on Biodiversity, Water and Ecosystems and the Joint Meeting of the Chemical Committee and the Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology. The Secretariat is also grateful to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands and the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea for their generous financial support in developing this report.
The author expresses gratitude to those who contributed to the preparation and development of this report through the provision of their time, expertise and experience. The report benefitted from insightful discussions and the technical expertise of participants at the OECD Workshop on “Managing Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Surface Waters: Scientific developments and cost-effective policy responses” held on 5 February 2018, Paris. Special appreciation is extended to: Sara Sahlin (formerly OECD Environment Directorate) who provided valuable research for the development of chapters 1 and 2 of this report; Florence Metz (Department of Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland) who provided a scoping study and guidance on the development of this project; and Frithjof Laubinger (OECD Environment Directorate) who provided research on pharmaceutical waste management and collection programmes.
Appreciation is extended to those who contributed case studies, including: Josef Hoppichler (Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas, Austria); Henrik Søren Larsen (Ministry of Environment and Food, Environmental Protection Agency, Denmark); Olivier Gras (Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, France); Park Tae-Jin (National Institute of Environmental Research, Korea); Marc L. de Rooy, Julia Hartmann, Ana Versteegh and Tialling Vlieg (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands); Paula Paíga, Virginia Cruz Fernandes, Ana P. Carvalho, Manuela Correia, Olga Freitas, Sónia Figueiredo, Valentina F. Domingues and Cristina Delerue-Matos (Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP), Portugal); Kerstin Bly Joyce (Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden); Florian Thevenon (WaterLex International Secretariat, Switzerland); and Nick Haigh (formerly Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom).
The author is thankful to colleagues and experts who provided valuable input and review comments on the report, in particular: Simon Buckle, Bob Diderich, Xavier Leflaive and Leon Van Der Wal (OECD Environment Directorate); Valerie Paris, Ruth Lopert and Michael Padget (Health Division, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs); Alistair Boxall (Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, United Kingdom); Armelle Hebert (formerly Environment & Health Department, Veolia Research & Innovation); Klaus Kümmerer (Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany); Florence Metz (Department of Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland); Fiona Regan (School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland); Stéphanie Rinck-Pfeiffer (Global Water Research Coalition); Jason Snappe and Sam Maynard (AstraZeneca); Astrid Louise Wester (formerly Department of Public Health and Environmental Determinants of Health, World Health Organisation); and Annemarie van Wezel (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
Editorial guidance from Janine Treves, communications services from Catherine Bremer, Beth Del Bourgo, Sama Al Taher Cucci and Jane Kynaston, and administrative support from Ines Reale and Anna Rourke are gratefully acknowledged.