(b) evaluating the risks which cannot be avoided;

56. Considers at the outset of programmes and regularly during their implementation, the need to assess the likelihood and potential impact of the main risks to the achievement of programme objectives by appraising the relevance and credibility of the country’s policies and action plans for improving governance in relation to the available institutional and financial resources and by monitoring progress against commitments made by the DRC authorities; calls for the establishment of measures to prevent or mitigate risks and to clearly define the course of action to be followed if risks become a r ...[+++]eality;

It is responsible for monitoring and analysing risk in the financial system as a whole (also known as macro-prudential oversight).

Essentially, the new regulation will establish the provisions for suppliers of substances and mixtures to obtain available information for evaluating the intrinsic hazards of these substances and mixtures with the aim of labelling them with this information on the hazards and appropriate precautionary measures to be taken before being placed on the market. REACH, on the other hand, requires that manufacturers and importers of substances assess the risks in relati ...[+++]on to identified uses with the aim of providing concrete instructions to downstream users on control of such risks during use, and that this is documented in a registration to the European Chemicals Agency.

This includes activities such as collecting data and information, analysing and assessing risk, prescribing and taking action and regular monitoring and review of the process and its outcomes, based on international, Community and national sources and strategies.

It is therefore necessary to assign to the Authority an anticipatory task of collecting information and exercising vigilance and providing evaluation of and information on emerging risks with a view to their prevention.