Technical Expert Working Groups

In order to assist the Commission in its development of legislation to implement the White Paper proposals, a number of technical experts working groups were convened from October 2001 to February 2002. The working groups were made up of stakeholder experts on particular topics covered by the White Paper, who came from authorities in the Member States, industrial associations and NGOs.

Eight working groups were established. During the first meeting, tasks were assigned to the members of the groups. The papers that were produced as a result of this assignment were presented and discussed during the second meeting.

Summary records of some of the meetings are now available.

Group	first meeting	second meeting
Testing, registration and evaluation (TRE)	not available	not available
Risk assessment (RA)	RA 1st meeting (pdf ~ 84 KB)	RA 2nd meeting (pdf ~ 74 KB)
Substances of very high concern (SVHC)	SVHC 1st meeting (pdf ~ 41 KB)	SVHC 2nd meeting (pdf ~ 45 KB)
Classification and labelling (incl. industry list C&L)	C&L 1st meeting (pdf ~ 24 KB)	not available
Risk management (RM)	not available	RM 2nd meeting (pdf ~ 37 KB)
Substances in products (SIP)	SIP 1st meeting (pdf ~ 13 KB)	SIP 2nd meeting (pdf ~ 13 KB)
Information through the supply chain (ISC)	not available	not available