The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let's cooperate!

Valeria Dulio (1) , Jan Koschorreck (2) , Bert van Bavel (3) , Paul van den Brink (4) , Juliane Hollender (5) , John Munthe (6) , Martin Schlabach (7) , Reza Aalizadeh (8) , Marlene Agerstrand (9) , Lutz Ahrens (10) , Ian Allan (3) , Nikiforos Alygizakis (11, 8) , Damia’ Barcelo’ (12) , Pernilla Bohlin-Nizzetto (7) , Susanne Boutroup (13) , Werner Brack (14, 15) , Adèle Bressy (16) , Jan H Christensen (17) , Lubos Cirka (18) , Adrian Covaci (19) , Anja Derksen (20, 20) , Genevieve Deviller (21) , Milou M L Dingemans (22, 23) , Magnus Engwall (24, 25) , Despo Fatta-Kassinos (26) , Pablo Gago-Ferrero (27) , Félix Hernández (28) , Dorte Herzke (7) , Klara Hilscherova (29) , Henner Hollert (30) , Marion Junghans (31) , Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern (32) , Steffen Keiter (33) , Stefan a E Kools (22) , Anneli Kruve (9) , Dimitra Lambropoulou (34) , Marja Lamoree (35) , Pim Leonards (35) , Benjamin Lopez (36) , Miren Lopez de Alda (22) , Lian Lundy (37, 38) , Jarmila Makovinská (39) , Ionan Marigómez (40) , Jonathan Martin (9) , Brendan Mchugh (41) , Cecile Miege (42) , Simon O’toole (43) , Noora Perkola (44) , Stefano Polesello (45) , Leo Posthuma (46, 47) , Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz (48) , Ivo Roessink (4) , Pawel Rostkowski (7) , Heinz Ruedel (49) , Saer Samanipour (50) , Tobias Schulze (51) , Emma L Schymanski (52) , Manfred Sengl (53) , Peter Tarábek (39) , Dorien ten Hulscher (54) , Nikolaos Thomaidis (55) , Anne Togola (36) , Sara Valsecchi (56) , Stefan van Leeuwen (4) , Peter von Der Ohe (2) , Katrin Vorkamp (13) , Branislav Vrana (29) , Jaroslav Slobodnik (57)

1 INERIS - Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques
2 UBA - German Federal Environmental Agency / Umweltbundesamt
3 NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research
4 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
5 EAWAG - Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf]
6 IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute
7 NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
8 NKUA - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
9 Stockholm University
10 SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
11 EI - Environmental Institute, s.r.o.
12 CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain]
13 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
14 UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
15 Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
16 LEESU - Laboratoire Eau Environnement et Systèmes Urbains
17 ITU - IT University of Copenhagen
18 EI - Environmental Institute, s.r.o
19 Toxicological Centre
20 AD Eco Advies
21 DERAC Environmental Risk Assessment Chem
22 KWR Watercycle Research Institute
23 IRAS - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences [Utrecht]
24 ‎ SWACCS - Swedish Acad Consortia Chem Safety
25 Örebro University
26 UCY - University of Cyprus [Nicosia]
27 INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L'AIGUA GIRONA ESP
28 Universitat Jaume I = Jaume I University
29 RECETOX / MUNI - Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment [Brno]
30 RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
31 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
32 University of Bath [Bath]
33 Örebro University Hospital [Örebro, Sweden]
34 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
35 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
36 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
37 LUT - Luleå University of Technology = Luleå Tekniska Universitet
38 Middlesex University
39 VUVH Water Research Institute
40 UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
41 Marine Inst, Galway, Ireland.
42 RiverLy - RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes
43 Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland
44 SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute
45 CNR-IRSA,UOS Brugherio, Brugherio, Italy
46 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
47 Radboud University [Nijmegen]
48 ICRA - Instituto Catalán de Investigación del Agua - ICRA (SPAIN)
49 HELMHOLTZ CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ LEIPZIG DEU
50 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
51 Centre for Environmental Research
52 University of Luxembourg [Luxembourg]
53 Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU)
54 Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
55 Department of Chemistry
56 IRSA - CNR Water Research Institute
57 Environmental Institute

The Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC) is currently under development as a joint research and innovation programme to strengthen the scientific basis for chemical risk assessment in the EU. The plan is to bring chemical risk assessors and managers together with scientists to accelerate method development and the production of necessary data and knowledge, and to facilitate the transition to next-generation evidence-based risk assessment, a non-toxic environment and the European Green Deal. The NORMAN Network is an independent, well-established and competent network of more than 80 organisations in the field of emerging substances and has enormous potential to contribute to the implementation of the PARC partnership. NORMAN stands ready to provide expert advice to PARC, drawing on its long experience in the development, harmonisation and testing of advanced tools in relation to chemicals of emerging concern and in support of a European Early Warning System to unravel the risks of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and close the gap between research and innovation and regulatory processes. In this commentary we highlight the tools developed by NORMAN that we consider most relevant to supporting the PARC initiative: (i) joint data space and cutting-edge research tools for risk assessment of contaminants of emerging concern; (ii) collaborative European framework to improve data quality and comparability; (iii) advanced data analysis tools for a European early warning system and (iv) support to national and European chemical risk assessment thanks to harnessing, combining and sharing evidence and expertise on CECs. By combining the extensive knowledge and experience of the NORMAN network with the financial and policy-related strengths of the PARC initiative, a large step towards the goal of a non-toxic environment can be taken.

Mots clés: NORMAN network; Suspect screening; Non-target screening; Contaminants of emerging concern; Environmental monitoring; High-resolution mass spectrometry; Effect-based methods; Chemical risk assessment and prioritisation

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Valeria Dulio, Jan Koschorreck, Bert van Bavel, Paul van den Brink, Juliane Hollender, et al.. The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let's cooperate!. Environmental Sciences Europe, 2020, 32 (1), ⟨10.1186/s12302-020-00375-w⟩. ⟨hal-02903855⟩