Disclaimer: This document does not present future project calls as part of the EFSA work  programme, or any future position of EFSA. It aims to support the development of a roadmap for  action and its content can be subject to change.  Vision:  By 2022, the European Partnership for Environmental Risk Assessment (PERA) has: • Brought together partners of relevant sectors across regulatory silos and improved the  cooperation  on regulatory environmental risk assessment (ERA) between these partners. • Facilitated the transition to next generation, systems-based ERA through the co- development of new and complementary  tools  and  methods , and the sharing of  data  (including their findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse) and  expertise . By 2030, PERA has: In line with sectoral legal requirements, the ERA of regulated products (such as biocides, chemicals,  pesticides, pharmaceuticals, feed additives and genetically modified organisms) is typically  performed on a single substance/compound or product basis, for a specific type of use, in the  European Union (EU). While the EU has made substantial progress on achieving environmental  protection with the exiting ERA paradigm, frameworks for the ERA of single substances/compounds  or products are increasingly challenged by the scientific community and society. Such frameworks  are claimed to have fallen out of step with  scientific knowledge  and  progress 1 . Moreover, they  are not always in line with n ew policy targets 2 and society needs 3 that demand for  more sustainable solutions  to protect the environment.  In addition , environmental policies in different sectors have developed independently and at different  times, and are implemented by different institutions, leading to inconsistencies between different  regulatory frameworks and potential policy gaps. For regulatory ERAs this fragmentation can lead  Background: 3 E.g. children striking over climate change, p eople of Europe demanding for more sustainable food systems  2 E.g. EU Green Deal covering the farm to fork strategy for sustainable food, the chemical strategy for  sustainability, the biodiversity strategy, the zero pollution action plan, the circular economy action plan,  and the soil thematic strategy  1 E.g. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6476/360 European Food Safety Authority  Via Carlo Magno 1A – 43126 Parma, Italy  Tel. +39 0521 036 111│ www.efsa.europa.eu  ANNEX 3  Theme (concept) paper  –  Building a European  Partnership for next generation, systems-based  Environmental Risk Assessment  Revised theme paper in light of the comments received from the  European Commission (DG SANTE), ENVI Agencies, EU Member States  and EFSA’s Scientific Committee members in the phases 1 & 2 of EFSA’s  consultation process 