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Upcoming BCS Operators' Forum

Posted: 12 April, 2019. Written by Olivia Furssedonn

The next meeting of the BCS Operators’ Forum is taking place on Wednesday 29 May 2019. The meeting is taking place at the following address: SloanePoint, 6-8 Market Place, Reading, RG1 2EG. The Forum will commence at 12 noon and will finish at 3pm with a break for lunch. If you are interested in attending the Forum, you can register interest and confirm attendance by contacting Georgia Phetmanh at georgia@realschemes.org.uk. Please inform us should you have any dietary requirements.

The most recent and fifth meeting of the Forum was held on 31 October 2018 near Derby. Minutes from this Forum are available here. Two of the agenda items for the sixth meeting of the Forum in May will be discussion surrounding the review of PAS110 and the Environment Agency's review of the Anaerobic Digestion Quality Protocol (ADQP), amongst other scheme-related issues and developments.

REAL will seek views on whether there is a need to revise PAS 110 via Survey Monkey. Operators and other industry stakeholders will be invited to complete the survey, to be sent out at the end of April.
The topic of whether there is a need to revise PAS 110, taking into account responses from the survey, will be discussed at the Forum meeting on 29th May and further at our TAC meeting on 12th June. Following these meetings, a decision will be made on whether a PAS 110 workshop is required later on in the year. If you are not able to attend the Forum but you would like to have an issue raised on your behalf, please contact Jo Chapman, the BCS Producers' Representative, using jo@acshropshire.co.uk