Annex A. Responses from the survey of governments and industry

Table A.1. Government responses to the 2018 Environment, Health an Safety Survey (average values)

Average hourly cost of staff

EUR 45

Time to prepare for an OECD meeting as a percentage of meeting time

150%

Average number of new industrial chemicals notified each year

332.3

Average number of assessments of existing industrial chemicals per year

13

For how many of those assessments is an existing assessment from another OECD country available?

5

Average staff time spent to develop one assessment report on a new or existing industrial chemical (hours)

457

Percentage of staff time that would be reduced if an assessment for the same chemical from another OECD country exists

35%

What percentage of this is due to the other country using OECD guidance and formats?

35%

Average number of pesticide applications for active ingredients received per year

11

Average number of biocide applications for active ingredients received per year

14

Average number of person-years to review a pesticide dossier and prepare a monograph

1.95

Per cent less time if country already had a full pesticide monograph provided by another country rather than preparing the initial pesticide monograph

52%

Table A.2. Industry responses to the 2018 Environment, Health an Safety Survey (average values)

Cost of base set testing for a new industrial chemical

EUR 250 000

Cost of base set testing for an existing industrial chemical

EUR 190 000

Percentage of endpoint data for industrial chemicals fulfilled by new testing

70%

Percentage of endpoint data for industrial chemicals fulfilled by (Q)SARs [(quantitative) structure-activity relationships]

10%

Percentage of endpoint data for industrial chemicals fulfilled by existing data

20%

Cost of testing for a new biocide – active substance

EUR 5 000 000

Cost of testing for a new pesticide – active substance

EUR 21 500 000

Per cent of industrial chemical testing that would have to be repeated without OECD Test Guidelines, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Principles and the MAD system

30%

Per cent of pesticide testing that would have to be repeated without OECD Test Guidelines, GLP Principles and the MAD system

35%

Per cent of biocide testing that would have to be repeated without OECD Test Guidelines, GLP Principles and the MAD system

35%

Average number of markets in which industrial chemicals are marketed

3

Average number of markets in which pesticides are marketed

3.5

Average number of markets in which biocides are marketed

3.5

Average cost to prepare a pesticide dossier

EUR 236 500

Per cent of cost of preparing a first dossier that would be needed for a second dossier if the first was prepared in the OECD format

30%

Per cent of cost of preparing a first dossier that would be needed for a second dossier if the first was not prepared in the OECD format

70%

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