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Monitoring and Risk Assessment of New Psychoactive Substances

Summary

This proposal aims to strengthen the European Union's ability to monitor, assess, and respond to new psychoactive substances through improved information exchange and faster risk assessment procedures.
10 21.11.2017
Other
health
criminal law
public safety
social policy
european union

Key points

  • Strengthening the European Union's ability to monitor and provide early warnings regarding new psychoactive substances.
  • Prioritizing the protection of vulnerable groups, particularly young people, from emerging drug-related risks.
  • Mandating faster information exchange between the central agency and bodies like Europol and the European Medicines Agency.
  • Allowing for combined risk assessments of multiple substances that share similar chemical structures to increase efficiency.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1920/2006 as regards information exchange, early warning system and risk assessment procedure on new psychoactive substances Information exchange on, and an early warning system and risk assessment procedure for, new psychoactive substances ***I
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