New approach methodologies workshop: Towards an animal free regulatory system for industrial chemicals
31 May - 1 June 2023 | ECHA, Helsinki
As part of its commitment to support the transition to an animal free regulatory system, ECHA is organising a workshop to discuss critical needs to enable faster progress.
The workshop will be an opportunity to bring stakeholders together and develop a common understanding of what new approach methodologies (NAMs), can achieve in the short and long term.
Wednesday 31 May
Session 1: Hazard assessment for industrial chemicals: regulatory landscape and identifying critical needs
09:00 - 10:15
09:00-09:10: Welcome and opening - Sharon McGuinness, ECHA - Video
09:10-09:20: Introductory words - Tilly Metz, MEP - Video
09:20-09:30: Introductory words - Kristin Schreiber, European Commission (DG GROW) - Video
09:30-09:45: System for regulating industrial chemicals in the EU: current status, anticipated changes, and long-term vision - Cristina de Avila, European Commission (DG ENV) - Video | Slides
09:45-10:00: ECHA perspective including recent findings from Art 117.3 - Ofelia Bercaru, ECHA - Video | Slides
10:00-10:15: International perspective - Patience Browne, OECD - Video | Slides
10:15-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-11:15
10:45-10:55: Industry perspective - Chantal Smulders, CEFIC - Video | Slides
10:55-11:05: Animal welfare NGO perspective - Julia Baines, PETA - Video | Slides
Panel discussion - Video
Moderator: Mercedes Viñas, ECHA
12:30-13:30
Lunch break
Wednesday 31 May
Session 2: Opportunities for increasing the use of new approach methodologies under the current chemical regulatory systems
13:30-14:30
13:30-13:45: Current EU requirements for the assessment of chemicals - challenges in current regulatory endpoints and opportunities for new approach methodologies: ECVAM perspective - Elisabet Berggren, JRC - Video | Slides
13:45-14:00: Current REACH revision including changes in SIRs and Annex XI: status, implications - Katrin Schutte, European Commission (DG ENV) - Video | Slides
14:00-14:15: Critical regulatory needs with proposals for short and mid-term solutions to increase the use of new approach methodologies under the current system - Tomasz Sobanski, ECHA - Video | Slides
14:15-14:30: Evolving Validation to better address regulatory use - João Barroso, JRC - Video | Slides
14:30-15:30
Panel discussion - Video
Moderator: Katia Lacasse, Cefic
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-18:00
Short perspectives on current status and short- to long-term opportunities
17:00-17:15: Chronic Fish - Professor Kristin Schirmer, EAWAG - Video | Slides
17:15-17:30: Q&A (Moderator: Tiago Pedrosa, ECHA) - Video
17:30-18:00: Moving past measuring adversity in an intact organism - Rusty Thomas, US EPA - Video | Slides
18:00
Networking reception
Thursday 1 June
Session 3: Looking beyond current regulatory settings for a completely animal-free system
09:00-10:00
09:00-09:20: Beyond REACH: DG GROW perspective for moving towards animal-free regulations - Georg Streck, European Commission (DG GROW) - Video | Slides
09:20-09:40: Accelerating the Transition to Animal-Free Innovation - Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga, Utrecht University - Video | Slides
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