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Establishment of a priority list of substances for further evaluation of their role in endocrine disruption has been the key short term action under the Community Strategy. The Directorate-General for the Environment financed four studies to develop the priority list of substances and to collect hazard information on individual chemicals:

• "Towards the establishment of a priority list of substances for further evaluation of their role in endocrine disruption - preparation of a candidate list of substances as a basis for priority setting",
• "Study on the scientific evaluation of 12 substances in the context of endocrine disruptor priority list of actions",
• "Study on gathering information on 435 substances with insufficient data" and
• "Study on enhancing the endocrine disruptor priority list with a focus on low production volume chemicals"

Information exchange and international co-ordination has been another short term action identified in the Community Strategy. To address this issue, the Directorate-General for the Environment financed a study to analyse and assess the activities on endocrine disruptors at international level and make recommendations on ways how to improve coordination and the sharing of workloads:

• "Information Exchange and International Coordination on Endocrine Disruptors"

A study on the State of the Art of the Assessment of Endocrine Disruptors has been commissioned by the Directorate-General for the Environment in 2009 to provide a basis for:

1. the development of scientific criteria for the identification of endocrine disruptors; and
2. the review and possible revision of the Community Strategy on Endocrine Disruptors.

The objectives of the study were to:

1. review the scientific knowledge published in the literature over the last 10 years and in the reports of more than 80 FP funded projects;
2. review the approaches for assessment of endocrine disruptors used in selected Member States, in major competing economies outside the EU and in international bodies;
3. draw conclusions and answer policy relevant questions.

The study has been finalised by the contractor at the end of January 2012:

• "State of the art assessment of endocrine disruptors"
• "Annex 1: Summary of the state of the science"
• "Annex 2: Summary of expert consultations on approaches to the regulatory assessment of endocrine disruptors"
• "Annex 3: Comparative analysis of endpoints and assays by human health and wildlife endpoint"