caa a22 4500 378861867 CHVBK 20180305123348.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1351/pac200375112535 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1351/pac200375112535 Role of the precautionary principle in the EU risk assessment process on industrial chemicals [Elektronische Daten] [J. de Bruijn, Bjorn Hansen, S. Munn] This paper discusses the practical implementation of the precautionary principle in the area of management of industrial chemicals in the European Union. An analysis of a number of recent cases where the precautionary principle was invoked shows that the main reason for doing so were the uncertainties in the risk assessment (or the underlying effects or exposure data), which were, according to the scientific experts, so high that the "normal" level of certainty could not be obtained. The challenge for the future is to try to develop general guidance or rules that will support the policymakers in their decision as to whether this uncertainty is so large that action is warranted or whether it is acceptable to wait until further information has become available. © 2013 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston de Bruijn J. European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut Hansen Bjorn European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut Munn S. European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut Pure and Applied Chemistry De Gruyter 75/11-12(2003-01-01), 2535-2541 0033-4545 75:11-12<2535 2003 75 pac https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200375112535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200375112535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Bruijn J. European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hansen Bjorn European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Munn S. European Chemicals Bureau, Joint Research Centre, 21021 Ispra (VA), Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Pure and Applied Chemistry De Gruyter 75/11-12(2003-01-01), 2535-2541 0033-4545 75:11-12<2535 2003 75 pac CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter