We agree with other people on the panel who have talked about the need for enhanced sharing of information. In particular, with the REACH setup happening in Europe, Canada needs to ensure that we can get the information that companies will be submitting as part of this program, so we can use it in our assessments. We would support having their science and assessments to base our work on, but we would not necessarily take their assessments and simply act on them. We need to be able to review their assessments to ensure that they are applicable in Canada.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.