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

2. IPCHEM introduction

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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;

7. IPCHEM tutorial

8. 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

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

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

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

12. 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

13. 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