Mr. Mowat is a British born Swiss national with graduate and post-graduate degrees in chemistry from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is the owner and chief executive for the Chemical Exchange Directory (CED) located in Geneva Switzerland. CED (http://www.ced.ch) has been in business since 1985 providing services in safety and environment compliance. This includes creation of EU Safety Datasheets and EU supply labelling, development and marketing of multi-language phrase libraries for Safety Datasheet preparation, provision of editorial services to the European Commission for chemical related data/content provision and providing advice on EU notification dossiers. Prior to CED, Mr. Mowat worked for various European divisions of Dupont (1981-1984) and Ciba Geigy (1973-1980).