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• Improve interagency cooperation on regulatory ERA and other types of assessment, and cooperation between risk assessors and managers, and other relevant partners at European, national and regional level; 

• Advance and harmonise regulatory ERAs, across regulatory silos; 

• Address new policy targets, the “one substance –  one assessme nt” concept, and society needs; 

• Co-develop new/complementary tools and methods, and implement innovative tools and methods for regulatory ERA; 

• Improve the sharing of data (including their findability, accessibility, interoperability and reuse) and expertise; 

• Identify current and emerging ERA needs, and bridge ERA gaps; 

• Identify, prioritise and promote research and innovation needs for regulatory ERA, and align research and innovation in ERA with EU/national Research & Innovation investments to improve coherence and reduce overlap between national and EU funding in ERA research; 

• Build linkages with relevant/complementary partnerships and projects. 

## Cooperation: 

PERA will facilitate the advancement of regulatory ERA by promoting cooperation with relevant partners (such as national competent authorities/agencies, EU Member States, EU Agencies, Commission Services, policy makers, risk managers, risk assessors, scientific community and civil society). 

PERA will also build linkages with relevant/complementary partnerships and projects, such as the new European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) 21  to be launched under Horizon Europe in 2022. The innovative research projects to be supported by this partnership will focus on human health aspects, but are expected to include environmental aspects that are relevant for regulated ERA, in particular in the areas of environmental media monitoring and sources of human exposure to chemicals. 

The European Commission launched in mid-Se ptember a €1 billion call for research and innovation projects that respond to the climate crisis and help protect Europe's unique ecosystems and biodiversity. The Horizon 2020-funded European Green Deal Call, has 8 thematic areas including area 6: Farm to fork, area 7: Biodiversity and ecosystems and area 8: Zero-pollution, toxic-free environments that aim to launch large consortia to work on these issues. 

## Impact for EFSA and other PERA partners : 

• Strengthen interagency cooperation on ERA for regulated substances/compounds or products and other types of assessment, and cooperation with national competent authorities/agencies, EU Member States, Commission Services, policy makers, risk managers, risk assessors, scientific community and civil society; 

• Harmonise regulatory ERAs, across regulatory silos; 

