Underpinning EFSA’s commitment to openness and transparency, the pilot phase aims to promote better understanding of how scientific risk assessment works at EFSA and to provide a new opportunity for interaction with EFSA’s scientific experts.
To enhance the transparency of the risk assessment process, EFSA has committed to opening up its scientific meetings in line with its new Policy on Independence and Scientific Decision-Making Processes and the recommendations of its Stakeholder Consultative Platform.
Substantial information is already publicly available on EFSA’s website on scientific risk assessment, Panel roles, membership, competencies, functioning, declarations of interests and meetings, the EFSA said.
The Register of Questions also allows interested parties to follow the risk assessment process from start to finish. By providing the opportunity for interested parties to observe Panel meetings in action, how scientific opinions are developed and how various points of view are debated by experts, EFSA aims to build further confidence in the risk assessment process and in its own scientific work and outputs.
Source: EFSA
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