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Commission, EFSA will dedicate part of its grant and procurement budget for the purpose of preparedness for verification studies. 

The areas of work would be those for which scientific studies are required and regulatory efforts are justified, to ensure that regulatory science does not fall behind scientific developments and potential new research methodologies of regulatory interest. Investing in commissioning scientific studies and projects to address scientific and methodological knowledge gaps in its regulatory areas, generating data and evidence, developing methodologies and communication science in a coordinated manner with larger EU and Member State research and innovation programmes (e.g. Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe), translating and complementing research findings into implementable risk assessment methodologies can strengthen the cooperation between EFSA and other EU/national institutions and reduce knowledge and communication gaps. This may thereby prevent triggering Article 30 requests on scientific divergences which have the potential to develop to Article 32d requests. 

To support this investment EFSA established a process for identifying and prioritising scientific themes and developing their related roadmaps for action. The main components of this process are: 

i) A “theme paper” which provides for each scientific theme directions for preparedness for future risk assessment requirements, avoidance of scientific divergences and eventually verification studies in collaboration and consultation with partners (e.g. JRC, Member States, EU Agencies and, if relevant, international partners and stakeholders). 

ii) A “roadmap for action” which provides f or each scientific theme a full understanding on e.g. ongoing activities, knowledge gaps, societal interests and concerns as well as collaboration opportunities and potential partners. Each roadmap will provide for EFSA and its partners a basis for prioritisation and decision making for high-value (> 1 million euro), multi-annual (>2-5 years) studies or project calls (grants or procurements) to be launched under a scientific theme over a 6 years period. 

In line with EFSA´s consideration on the future of science 4 and EFSA’s 2027 strategic development 5 , EFSA prioritised four scientific themes for 2021, and roadmaps for action are required for three themes in the frame of this procurement: 

(1) building a European partnership for next generation, systems-based environmental risk assessment 

(2) new approach methodologies (NAMs) in risk assessment, and 

(3)  risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals. 

The technical offers submitted in response to this call for tenders shall take the directions provided in the relevant theme papers into account ( Annexes 3-5 ). 

