Self-declarations of environmental classification in www.fass.se

In parallel to the implementation of the environmental classification system at www.fass.se, IVL has conducted a study of the review process with the aim to identify and address the pitfalls of the system. With experience from the reviewing process, IVL took part in a discussion, led by LIF, with the pharmaceutical companies about how to improve the implementation of the guidelines for environmental risk assessment developed by LIF and their expert group on environment. The goal of this reviewing process was to establish a common praxis for the implementation of the guideline among the different companies and to provide feedback from the experience of the self-declaration process to the system owners, LIF. The review of pre-published environmental risk assessments and system evaluation is an on-going task and the present report describes the experiences from the review process during the year 2012.A