Workshop summary evaluation and how to proceed. International workshop on promotion of technical harmonisation on risk-based decision-making

The JRC Risk Harmonisation Workshop primarily served to collect information on different risk assessment methods across technical areas and countries, the working group session that took place immediately after the workshop w ith about 35 experts which attended the workshop and interested participant s aimed at identifying the next steps forward. As a first step, a few weeks after the workshop, a detailed summary paper was drafted by JRC, distribut ed for finalisation to all the workshop participants and put in its final v ersion on the Internet for downloading (http://mahbsrv.jrc.it/RiskHarmProj/ stresa/Summary-Paper-final.pdf). In Section 1 of this Summary Paper some industry-specific as well as more g eneral conclusions from the workshop sessions are given(1), followed by con siderations on the status of risk-based decision making (Section 2) and by an outlook on how to possibly continue with this initiative (Section 3). (C ) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.