Transparency in Risk Assessment - Scientific Aspects Guidance of the Scientific Committee on Transparency in the Scientific Aspects of Risk Assessments carried out by EFSA. Part 2: General

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SUMMARY The EFSA Founding Regulation (EC No 178/2002) states that risk assessments should be undertaken in a transparent manner. The European Food Safety Authority requested that the Scientific Committee provides guidance on relevant information to be included in EFSA’s opinions to ensure the transparency of the risk assessments carried out by EFSA. In 2006 the Scientific Committee published a guidance document addressing the procedural issues that are considered beneficial to improve such transparency. The current document focuses on transparency in the scientific outputs produced by EFSA. This document deals with general principles to be applied in the identification of data sources, criteria for inclusion/exclusion of data, confidentiality of data, assumptions and uncertainties. 1 For citation purposes: Guidance of the Scientific Committee on transparency in the scientific aspects of risk assessment