This report was prepared by the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Public Governance Director, Anna Pietikainen (Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, REG) and Daniel Trnka (Deputy Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, REG).
This report was written by Guillermo Hernández (Policy Analyst, REG) and Florentin Blanc (Senior Policy Analyst, REG). This report benefited from research, drafting and editing assistance from Lia Pantazi, Carola Bertone, Kabir Sabharwal, Hamsini Shankar and Giota Kapreli (Consultants), and Aïda Rahmouni (Junior Policy Analyst, REG). Giuseppa Ottimofiore (Policy Analyst, REG) provided input and edited different sections. Campbell Gemmel and Donald Macrae provided invaluable technical input and iterative feedback on earlier versions of this document. The authors would like to thank for her support and comments Vaia Karapanou (Economist and Policy Analyst, REG). Costanza Caputi (Policy Analyst, REG) co-ordinated the publication process. The report was prepared for publication by Jennifer Stein.
This report has benefited from the technical input and review of a panel of international experts, as part of the work on the application of the precautionary principle in the context of the environmental transition. Special thanks go to all panel members for their valuable input. The expert panel was made up of Frederic Bouder, Campbell Gemmell, Pieter van Gelder, Jeroen van der Heijden, Ira Helsloot, Ragnar Lofstedt, Donald Macrae, Lidia Morawska, Henry Rothstein, Mira Scholten, Daniel Scholten, Kirsten Westphal and Jonathan Wiener.
The authors are also thankful to colleagues from within the OECD Directorate for Public Governance for their feedback and comments including Robert Addison and Simon Cox, Policy Analysts at the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, Sara Fyson, Senior Project Manager and Gloriana Madrigal, Policy Analyst at the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, as well as Marco Daglio, Head of the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation at the Open and Innovative Government Division.
This report also benefited from feedback and review by Deger Sayin, Policy Analyst within the Environment Directorate, José Miguel Bermúdez Menéndez, Energy Technology Analyst, at the International Energy Agency (IEA), Kimberly Nick, Head of Division, and Emma Wong, Senior Nuclear Technology and Innovation Advisor, at the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), for which the authors are grateful.
The OECD Directorate of Public Governance and the Regulatory Policy Division thank the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission (DG REFORM) for its financial contribution in the preparation of the report, which is part of a project requested by the Netherlands on Precaution in the energy transition and improved knowledge for hydrogen risk regulation. The action was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the OECD, in co-operation with the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission.
This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. The authors wish to acknowledge the stimulating and fruitful collaboration throughout the project, and ongoing support of Jan van Tol, Coordinator for Risk Policy in the Energy Transition, and his team, in particular Rob Smal and Kees Theune.