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CAT

Description
Organisation: 
Chemical Assessment and Testing Unit
Acronym: 
CAT
Details
Mission and Objectives: 
The mission of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection is to protect the interests and health of the consumer in the framework of EU legislation on chemicals, food, and consumer products by providing scientific and technical support including risk-benefit assessment and analysis of traceability.
Formal Mandate: 
None
Mandate: 
The Chemical Assessment and Testing Unit as a part of the JRC is contributing to the achievement of the objectives as described in the annual work programm of the institute.
Activities: 
The CAT Unit is actively engaged in both policy support and fundamental reseaarch through its two Policy Support Actions (Health and Environment, Consumer Products and Nutrition) as well as through its operational action (Chemical Assessment and Testing). These actions cover a wide range of issues, namely Human exposure to chemicals and physical stressors, pollution sources and related chemistry, risk analysis, modeling of related phenomena etc. It thus fits perfectly within the context of Human Health and Safety theme of INSPIRE taking also into account numerous interventions that have taken place within the last years in order to gather environmental and exposure data.
Membership: 
Chemical Assessment and Testing Unit belongs to the JRC and thus it has not the status to have memberships from other institutes/organizations.
Typology: 
Thematic
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT

Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development

  • submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • allocate experts to Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • participate in the review process
    • yes
  • contribute to cost/benefit analysis of the draft Implementing Rules
    • yes
  • implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
    • yes
  • collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies
    • yes
  • register a project to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
    • yes
  • contribute to awareness raising and training
    • yes
  • be kept informed
    • yes
    Geographic Domain
    Europe
    European Countries
    Societal Sector
    Research
    Specific Expertise
    Specific Expertise: 
    Metadata
    Monitoring and Reporting
    Data Specifications
    Data and Service Sharing
    Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development
    Chemical Assessment and Testing has been actively involved in various projects that among others include the collection, processing and dissemination of data relevant to pollutants in Indoor Environments and the potential health impact for the occupants of such environments
    Environmental application domains
    Indoor Environments, Indoor Air Quality
    Primary Business
    AIRMEX project, INDEX PM project, EXPOLIS project
    INSPIRE Data Themes
    Coordinator
    Human health and safety
    Producer
    Human health and safety
    User
    Human health and safety