A generic standard for the risk assessment process: discussion on a proposal made by the program committee of the ER-JRC workshop on 'Promotion of technical harmonization of risk-based decision making'

摘要

This paper reviews the background and nature of the 'generic standard for risk-based decision making' (Generic Standard) put forward by the ECURC Workshop's Organizing Committee (Committee), as briefly described in the Preface paper of this special issue. Based on this analysis, the authors agree with the Committee's presumption that adopting a Generic Standard as a structural guideline for focused risk assessment standards in each of the several listed technical areas is feasible, will promote 'harmonization', and will help achieve the several advantages of harmonization outlined in the Workshop Summary Evaluation (see this special issue).