European Risk Forum

European Risk Forum is rated 3 out of 5 in the category think tanks. Read and write reviews about European Risk Forum. The European Risk Forum is the only Brussels-based think tank that focuses on the impact of public policy on the assessment and management of risk. It promotes the development and adoption of modern policies and institutional structures that can help ensure that high quality risk assessment and management decisions across a wide range of sectors at EU-level. The ERF exchanges ideas and opinions with thought leaders and decision-makers in the European Commission, Council and Parliament and various EU bodies. It focuses on designing and championing effective solutions to complex issues of regulatory governance, helping over time to improve the quality of decision-making. Building on ‘horizontal’ cross-sectoral approaches targeting the elaboration, adoption and implemented of regulatory decisions, over the past two decades the ERF has: • promoted and contributed to improving the understanding of complex impacts of risk regulation on innovation and competitiveness, including Defensive R&D, product stigmatisation, both in ex ante assessments and ex post evaluations; • fostered the role of science in EU decision-making, along the criteria of excellence and impartiality; • developed and championed the Innovation Principle, and promoted its correct application along with the Precautionary Principle; • promoted due process and quality standard governing the ‘administrative State’ at the EU level, including through the adoption of a comprehensive EU Law of Administrative Procedures; • promoted a mutually beneficial, constructive and science based trans-Atlantic regulatory dialogue.