ECHA-Workshop on EUSES update needs (4/5 June 2018)

Due to ECHA taking over the ownership of EUSES, ECHA held a workshop for invited stakeholders from industrial chemicals and biocides areas on update needs of EUSES. Our Markus Schwarz attended this workshop. Relating to both, release as well as fate modelling modules, attendants had the possibility to raise topics in addition to the ones proposed by the workshop organizing committee in advance of the workshop. As such, 27 topics were raised for discussion. A document with detailed description for each topic is available from ECHA’s web page (Annex 2). All topics were explained and discussed, 12 topics were prioritized before the workshop based on impact and state of development. Participants selected ca. 8 topics for further discussions in a “World Café”. The workshop was meant as an initial prioritization approach on update needs. ECHA intends to provide a documentation of the workshop for download. The workshop will be followed by a more detailed pre-study on needs, solutions and costs (Q4 2018 to Q2 2019) as a basis for ECHA to decide on a redevelopment and update of EUSES (possibly Q4 2019 to Q3 2021).