SYBERAC Towards a SYstems-Based, holistic Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals

生物多样性是现代社会维持自然资源和提供基本生态系统服务的关键。根据联合国可持续发展目标、欧洲绿色协议、欧盟生物多样性战略以及其他欧洲和国家层面的指令和战略法规，污染是生物多样性丧失的主要驱动因素之一。化学品的使用、释放和对环境的影响所造成的风险在大量的欧盟指令和监管战略中得到了解决，每个指令和监管战略都有具体的（化学品）目标和保护目标。然而，有人担心，这种分散的方法确实减轻了化学品对生物多样性和生态系统服务的威胁。为了保护遗传和功能生物多样性免受污染影响，需要进行范式转变。这种转变应该超越目前在特定监管孤岛中进行的分散的环境风险评估（ERA），例如农药的植物保护产品（PPPs）法规，工业化学品的REACH法规和杀菌剂框架杀菌剂化学品，朝着适用于所有化学品，物种和土地使用功能的协调和基于系统的ERA。为了实现这一进步，SYBERAC将提供方法，将当前基于筒仓的保护目标合理化为基于高级系统的保护目标，并将其应用于基于系统的ERA，稳健且广泛适用的ERA结构。六个案例研究，涵盖了当前ERA的不同筒仓，将提供已开发方法的概念证明。基于有针对性的利益相关者参与，与其他相关项目密切合作，结果和成果将传播给广泛的受众，包括国家和欧盟层面的监管机构、工业合作伙伴，以及土地管理者、农民和保护机构。

TOWARDS A SYSTEM BASED, HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICALS (SYBERAC) Biodiversity is key to modern society, sustaining natural resources and providing essential ecosystem services. According to the UN Sustainable Development goals, the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity strategy and other European and national level Directives and strategic regulations, pollution is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. The risks resulting from the use, release and effects of chemical on the environment is addressed in a plethora of EU-level Directives and regulatory strategies, each with specific (chemical) targets and protection aims. There is, however, concern that such a fragmented approach does alleviate the threats of chemicals to biodiversity and ecosystem services. To protect genetic and functional biodiversity from pollution impacts, a paradigm shift is needed. Thistransformation should move beyond the current fragmented Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) performed in specific regulatory silos, e.g., Plant Protection Products (PPPs)regulation for pesticides, REACH for industrial chemicals and Biocides framework for Biocidal chemicals, towards a harmonised and systems-based ERA applicable to all chemicals, species and land use functions. To make this advance, SYBERAC will provide ways forward to rationalise the current silo-based Protection Goals into high-level system-based Protection Goals and to operationalise their use within systems-based ERA robust and broadly applicable ERA structures. Six case studies, overarching different silos of current ERA will provide proof-of-concepts of the developed approaches. Based on targeted stakeholder engagement, in close cooperation with other relevant projects on the topic, results and outcomes will be disseminated towards a wide audience, including national and EU level regulatory institutions, industrial partners but also land managers, farmers and conservation bodies.