To ensure the consistency and efficiency of assessments related to chemicals provided for in Union legal acts, it is also important for data to be interoperable and for the exchange of data between the relevant Union agencies to be easy, as well as to encourage cooperation on the development of standard formats and controlled vocabularies. Thus, to facilitate data exchange between agencies, any new data formats developed by the European Food Safety Authority (the EFSA) or by the European Environmental Agency (the EEA) should be established in cooperation with other relevant Union agencies working on chemicals. To that end, relevant new provisions should be introduced in Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council and existing provisions should be strengthened. The proposal of similar provisions in the Regulation on the European Chemicals Agency should also be considered, in order to ensure that provisions on cooperation among all relevant Union agencies are consistent.
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