Mission
Article 2
(1) The mission of the Scientific Committees shall be to provide the Commission with scientific advice and risk assessment in the areas of public health, consumer safety, environmental risks, including, when relevant, identification of research needs to address critical information gaps, assessment of proposed future research actions and of research results. (2) The fields of competence of the Scientific Committees are set out in Annex I. (3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be without prejudice to the competencies conferred by Union acts to other Union bodies undertaking risk assessment, in particular, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency, the European Chemical Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.