Public consultation: environmental risk assessment
EFSA has opened public consultations on three draft scientific documents on environmental risk assessment (ERA). The aim of this work is to harmonise as far as possible the way the Authority assesses threats to the environment in its evaluations of regulated products and invasive alien species.
The first document is a draft guidance which demonstrates how biodiversity and ecosystem services can be considered when defining protection goals for ERA; the other two documents are draft scientific opinions that address, respectively, issues related to endangered species, and ecological recovery.
Plant protection products, feed additives and genetically modified organisms are subject to risk analysis and regulatory approval before being placed on the market, released into the environment, spread or used in agriculture. EFSA’s role is to assess and provide scientific advice to risk managers on possible risks that these substances may pose to the environment. EFSA also assesses the environmental risks related to the entry and spread of invasive alien species that are harmful to plant health.
Interested parties are invited to submit comments on the draft documents by 10 September 2015.
