Contributing to international initiatives

As an organisation, ECETOC serves as the ideal body to scientifically represent the European chemical industry; to liaise and to cooperate on their behalf with European and international scientific stakeholders and to get involved with relevant initiatives either in on-going expert groups or in specific meetings or projects.

On-going expert groups ECETOC represents its members in the following on-going expert groups:

World Health Organisation (WHO)/International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) Harmonisation Project Core Group John Doe of Syngenta represents ECETOC

European Commission Consultative Forum on Environment and Health Action Plan Dirk Pallapies of BASF represents ECETOC

European Chemicals Bureau Technical Committee on Classification and Labelling of Dangerous Substances-Expert Group on Reproduction Toxicity Potency Steffen Schneider of BASF represents ECETOC

European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods Scientific Advisory Committee David Owen of Shell represents ECETOC

ILSI Europe, Environment and Health Task Force Malyka Galay-Burgos of ECETOC represents ECETOC

Representation at specific meetings or input to specific projects:

ECETOC has represented its members in the following specific initiatives:

Workshop on the role of toxicokinetic information in improving the risk assessment of chemicals and advancing the 3Rs in regulatory toxicology testing NC3Rs 29 May 2008 Neil Carmichael of ECETOC chaired the workshop.

REACH RIP 3.3-2 Consortium European Commission Throughout 2007 David Owen of Shell International represented ECETOC and co-ordinated various input provided via the ECETOC expert network. Many employees of ECETOC member companies were nominated for participation in the various endpoint specific working groups.

REACH RIP 3.2-2 Consortium European Commission Throughout 2007 Chris Money of ExxonMobil represented ECETOC and co-ordinated various input provided via the ECETOC expert network.

6th Framework Programme Integrated Project ‘OSIRIS’ European Commission DG Research Throughout 2007 Watze de Wolf of DuPont has been a member of the Advisory Panel on behalf of ECETOC.

6th Framework Programme Co-ordination Action Project ‘NORMAN’  European Commission DG Research Throughout 2007 Mike Comber of ExxonMobil has been a member of the Advisory Panel on behalf of ECETOC.

6th Framework Programme Co-ordination Action Project ‘RiskBase’ European Commission DG Research Throughout 2007 Andrew Riddle of AstraZeneca has been a member of the Advisory Panel on behalf of ECETOC.

OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials Throughout 2007 Karin Wiench of BASF represented ECETOC (through BIAC) in project 2 on human health and environmental safety research strategies.

Public Consultation on Nanomaterials European Commission DG SANCO Throughout 2007 ECETOC expert group provided input to the SCENIHR opinion on ‘the appropriateness of the risk assessment methodology in accordance with the technical guidance documents for new and existing substances for assessing the risks of nanomaterials’.

Joint workshop with TNO on the use of human data for DNEL derivation Brussels, Belgium 20 November 2007 Chris Money of ExxonMobil organised the joint event on behalf of ECETOC.

Extended OECD/IPCS Advisory Group Meeting on Toxicogenomics US EPA Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA 24 May 2007 Remi Bars of BayerHealthcare participated on behalf of ECETOC.

Workshop on PBPK Modelling Chania/Crete, Greece  UK Health and Safety Laboratory 25-28 April 2007 Richard Phillips of ExxonMobil participated on behalf of ECETOC.

WHO/IPCS Workshop on Aggregate/Cumulative Risk Assessment Washington/DC, USA 19-21 March 2007 Carlos Rodriguez of Procter&Gamble participated on behalf of ECETOC.

Workshop on Acute Reference Dose 48th Frühjahrstagung Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie Mainz, Germany 12 March 2007 Neil Carmichael of ECETOC participated as a member of the workshop panel.