European Commission initiative to promote technical harmonisation on risk-based decision making

The EC-JRC International Workshop on Promotion of Technical Harmonisation on Risk-Based Decision Making, held at Stresa & Ispra, Italy, 22–25 May 2000, was an experts meeting to discuss the possible need and perspectives of developing an internationally accepted generic “standard” for risk-based decision making. This paper briefly describes the workshop background, its organisation and summarises its main results and conclusions; it reflects the personal opinions of the authors and in no way commits the European Commission.