Policy uptake & regulatory achievements

An overarching objective of PARC is for the partnership to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address chemical risks. As such, policy- and regulatory uptake and use of the results generated under PARC to the benefit of human health and nature will ultimately be one of the most important measures of success for the partnership.

To ensure regulatory- and policy relevance, a survey has been undertaken to collect the needs from national and European regulatory authorities represented in PARC. The results of the survey have been compiled and will be evaluated in terms of key areas of regulatory challenges. Prioritisation criteria will be refined, and the results will then be shared on the website. This will be an important input parameter to determine the prioritised areas of work in the second half of PARC.

Apart from prioritisation based on the ‘mapping of needs surveys’ a ‘rapid response mechanism’ has been developed. This mechanism will address the urgent needs that arise in terms of human health concerns which needs immediate action.

This work will support the planned REACH restriction on PFAS ↗ presented by ECHA ↗, the European Chemicals Agency. The PARC contribution will provide support to overcoming identified analytical challenges linked to enforcement of the restriction.

All thematic areas

Risk assessments

Find out how we monitor chemicals guided by regulatory challenges both in humans and in the environment, observing different sources, chemical fates and exposure pathways.

Learn new approaches and methods of health assessment and provide data to fill gaps in knowledge on poorly characterised contaminants or new emerging hazards while promoting the use of innovative methods.

Tools & resources

PARC is developing the PARC FAIR Data Hub that will be a service to provide FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) to the different stakeholders.

Come to know how we are catalysing the shift towards safe and sustainable chemicals, materials and products to to minimize negative impacts on human health and the environment.

Building infrastructure and human capacities

Check our mapping and cataloguing environmental (air, water/sediment, soil, biota, drinking water, food & feed) monitoring networks as well as the gaps and opportunities for future alignment.

Stay up to date on the latest trainings in the field of environmental monitoring and biomonitoring of chemicals to improve the overall quality of chemical risk assessment and management globally.

PARC has the ambition to make 70-80% of PARC-generated data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This requires extensive technical development to provide the infrastructure needed, as well as training of FAIR implementers to support PARC partners and projects to implement the FAIR workflows being developed. Discover our progress in building FAIR skills and capacity here.

Check out how we work towards increased harmonisation of quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) in chemical analysis and toxicity testing to ensure that monitoring and hazard data generated in PARC are reliable, consistent, and comparable.

Get to know the European laboratories that belong to our existing network as well as the new recruitments in order to maintain and to strengthen monitoring capacities.

Science to policy

We are connecting PARC partners and external stakeholders, from both the research and the regulatory domains, to apply the long-term visions of the European policies related to chemical safety.

PARC is inviting the whole community of professionals in chemical risk assessment in Europe and worldwide to share their knowledge and ideas on the PARCopedia platform launched in November 2023. PARCopedia is a not-for-profit, ad-free knowledge management and social media environment.

See the Next Generation Risk Assessment in action for the benefit of human and the environment.

Explore how PARC’s Rapid Response Mechanism tackles urgent health and environmental challenges.