Article 2 — Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 401/2009

Regulation (EC) No 401/2009 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, the following point is added: (p) to develop assessment methodologies relating to chemicals in the fields falling within its mandate. ; (2) Article 15 is amended as follows: (a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: 1. The Agency shall actively seek the cooperation of the Commission, other Union bodies and programmes, in particular the Joint Research Centre, the Statistical Office of the Union (Eurostat), the European Chemicals Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the Union’s environmental research and development programmes. Cooperation with the Joint Research Centre shall include in particular the tasks set out in Annex I, Part A. Coordination with Eurostat and the statistical programme of the Union shall follow in particular the guidelines outlined in Annex I, Part B. Cooperation with the European Chemicals Agency, the European Food Safety Authority and the European Medicines Agency shall relate to the exchange of data and information on chemicals, including the possible establishment of related data formats and controlled vocabularies to facilitate such an exchange, and to the development of scientific methodologies for the assessment of chemicals. ; (b) paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: 4. The cooperation referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall take account, inter alia, of the need to enhance coherence and synergies and to avoid any duplication of effort..