Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring 23 November 2018, Brussels Peter Korytár DG ENV

IPCHEM introduction https://youtu.be/S_DUwWh7NjI

IPCHEM Access point for discovering, accessing and retrieving chemical occurrence in various media across the world Distributed infrastructure but also offers hosting facilities for orphan and research data Facilitates access and provide hosting facilities Improves data quality and comparability Facilitates assessment Streamlines reporting

IPCHEM data providers and users Commission Services EU Agencies Member States International organisations National organisations Researchers General public

IPCHEM data policy Data retrievable through IPCHEM shall be made available to all users at highest possible level of data granularity and under the conditions of free, full, open and timely access Restrictions to the general rule Level of data to which users have access IPCheM User Groups 1. EU Commission and Agencies 2. EU National Bodies 3. General Public a. Metadata Yes yes b. Aggregated data To be specified c. Filtered or generalised single measurement data d. Single measurement data Research project groups – specific provisions possible

Benefits of IPCHEM Improves Enables Saves Risk assessment; Prioritisation of chemicals; Validation of exposure and deposition models; Policy effectiveness evaluation; State of environment evaluation Enables Risk assessment of combination effects; Early warning system; Alert system between environment and food; Correlation assessments Saves Resources for data collections and data storing; Burden for reporting;

IPCHEM tutorial https://youtu.be/Qq5qkHoUz3Q

IPCHEM - working together Collaboration across European Commission's Services and with EU Agencies for operation and data sharing Working with researchers and research consortia worldwide 31 % European Commission 28 % Member State Authorities 14 % European Agency (EEA) 10 % Research Consortium European Agency (EFSA) 7 % Research Centre The platform is expanding fast thanks to participating public and private organisations Cooperation with EU Member State authorities and agencies for national data International partnerships with the UN and OECD, and with third countries

Current status 33.000.000 MEASUREMENTS 2040 SUBSTANCES 28 DATA COLLECTIONS Full compliance with agreements and legislation (INSPIRE, personal data protection legislation)

Main tools EU login Home page Search by chemical Link to Structural and Information PROPERTIES ChemAgora Service EU login Home page

Main tools Basket tool DB Console Search by chemical Map viewer Metadata page

Current status and next steps Publically available as of October 2015; Wealth of data already available; Integration of data continues; A lot of attention payed recently to Human Biomonitoring Data issues (GDPR); we will continue to populate it; Cooperation with international organisations and extending IPCHEM beyond EU (OECD, UN); Embedding IPCHEM in the legislation as an alternative to reporting; Building the user groups (combination effects of chemicals; pollinators) and further developing IPCHEM tools

JOIN THE IPCHEM COMMUNITY You can be both a data provider a data user JOIN THE IPCHEM COMMUNITY #IPCHEM Watch this video to learn more http://ipchem.jrc.ec.europa.eu