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
