Panel 3: How to measure the performance of different chemical management

1. How to measure the
performance of different risk
management systems
Assessing the EU chemicals
acquis
Elena Montani
Sustainable Chemicals
European Commission, DG Environment
Helsinki, 23 May 2019

2. Why measuring performance?
• Better legislation, more responsive to
current and future challenges
Accountability to EU citizens
What works well in EU
legislation
What does not work well
and needs to change

3. What was the scope?
Scope was too broad! Re-focused on
hazard/risk assessment and management
complex
comprehensive
evolving
Single market,
competitiveness,
innovation
Protecting
health
& env

4. How was the performance assessed?
1. Effectiveness
 Have we achieved our objective
 Factors affecting the correct functioning,
consequences/effects not originally planned
2. Efficiency
 Costs and benefits, their drivers and proportionality
 Most efficient and least efficient aspects
3. Coherence
4. Relevance
5. EU added value

5. Who was involved?
Scientific
evidence
Citizens &
stakeholders
Experts
Several Commission services & EU agencies
How to bring together different views,
scattered evidence, different methodologies?

6. Challenges, "solutions", next steps
 Assessing a framework
 No baseline
 Data, knowledge,
methodological gaps
 Partial figures
 Attribution challenge
 No quantified
objectives, points of
reference
 Diverging views
 Clear focus
 Collect data, evidence,
stakeholders views
 Transparent about
assumptions
 Clear about limitations
 Only true estimates (e.g.
ordre de grandeur)
 Present divergent
opinions
Additional research, better indicators,
assessment of specific legislation

7. Thank you for your attention
Elena Montani
Sustainable Chemicals, DG Environment
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals