EFSA Focal Point Nieuwsbrief 28 juli 2022

Call for tender: One Health - Living Risk Assessment Tool

Deadline: September 28^th, 2022

A call for tenders was launched to develop an online, living risk assessment tool, to assess the risk for zoonotic and animal diseases using a holistic, one-health approach, in which the risk assessments are updated automatically.

The maximum budget for the framework contract (One year + automatic renewal up to 3 times for an overall maximum duration of four consecutive years) is €780.000. Please, submit your offer by 28 September 2022.

More information on this call (OC/EFSA/BIOHAW/2022/02: One Health - Living Risk Assessment Tool) can be found here.

EFSA ongoing calls

Various deadlines

EFSA would like to draw your attention to current ongoing calls:

1. Development of a Roadmap for Action for the Project ‘More Welfare: towards New Risk Assessment Methodologies and Harmonised Animal Welfare Data in the EU’ (procurement).
   • Call reference: OC/EFSA/ED/2022/02
   • More information: TED website
   • Deadline: 25 Aug 2022 –14:30 (CEST).
2. Development of a Roadmap for Action on Evidence-based Risk Communication in the EU Food Safety System (procurement)
   • Call reference: OC/EFSA/ED/2022/01
   • More information: TED website
   • Deadline: 25 Aug 2022 –14:30 (CEST)
3. Development of Roadmaps for Action on Applying Omics and Bioinformatics Approaches: Towards Next Generation Risk Assessment (procurement)
   • Call reference: OC/EFSA/ED/2022/03
   • More information: TED website
   • Deadline: 15 Sep 2022 - 14:30 (CEST)
4. ADME4NGRA: Implementing the EFSA NAMs Roadmap through Advancing Toxicokinetic Knowledge in Chemical Risk Assessment (procurement)
   • Call reference: OC/EFSA/MESE/2022/04
   • More information: TED website
   • Deadline: 15 Sep 2022 - 14:30 (CEST)
5. NAMS4NANO: Integration of New Approach Methodologies results in chemical risk assessments: Case studies addressing nanoscale considerations (grant)
   • Call reference: GP/EFSA/MESE/2022/01
   • More information: EFSA website
   • Deadline: 20 Sep 2022 - 23:59 (CEST)
6. NAM projects in the areas of AOP development and transcriptomics for risk assessment (grant)
   • Call reference: GP/EFSA/ED/2022/01
   • More information: EFSA website
   • Deadline: 26 Sep 2022 - 23:59 (CEST)

EFSA will also launch a roadmap for action on “Advancing Aggregate Exposure to Chemicals in EU” (Prior Information Notice: TED website) by the end of July 2022 (estimated date). Further information will follow, once the call will be published.

10^th BfR-Summer Academy 2022

Online, September 5^th - 16^th, 2022

The 10^th BfR-Summer Academy 2022 is a professional expert training course on risk assessment and risk communication in the area of food safety.

The 10th BfR-Summer Academy 2022 will be conducted by highly qualified and experienced BfR-scientists as well as external experts with profound and long standing experience in the assessment and communication of chemical or microbial risks. The course is intended for members of staff of public organisations engaged in food and feed safety, who already have experience in risk assessment analysis. The participants will gain deeper understanding in risk assessment analysis and in risk communication measures. Consequently this BfR-Summer Academy is from professionals to professionals.

The 10^th BfR-Summer Academy 2022 will be held online. The participation is free of charge. More information can be found here.

Bees and pesticides: draft guidance update for public consultation

Deadline: October 3^rd, 2022

EFSA has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document on the risk assessment of plant protection products and bees, covering honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees.

EFSA is responding to a request from the European Commission to review the guidance document, first published in 2013, considering new scientific knowledge that has emerged in the meantime.
Comments are particularly invited on the novel approaches included in the draft guidance, which regards the risk assessment and the statistical analysis of field studies. The deadline to submit comments is the 3^rd of October 2022.

Launch of the 3rd edition of the ‘Stop African swine fever’ campaign

July 20^th, 2022

On the 20^th of July 2022, EFSA launched the third edition of the ‘Stop African swine fever’ campaign. It is run in partnership with local authorities in eighteen countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo*, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The campaign will address farmers, veterinarians, and hunters. With the assistance of local farmers’ groups, veterinary organisations, hunting associations, and other relevant bodies, it aims to raise awareness about how to prevent the spread of this disease.

Visit EFSA’s ASF campaign website for more information and a communication toolkit containing factsheets, infographics, ready-to-use social media posts and other materials. Let’s #StopASF together!

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.