"SPORT stands for “Strategic Partnership on REACH Testing”. The project was based on equal participation and joint management by the three strategic partners, i.e. the European Commission, the Member States and industry, including small and medium enterprises as well as Downstream Users, who all together formed the SPORT Steering Group. SPORT is a ground-breaking strategic partnership for testing proposed legislation at Community level and could serve as a blueprint for the future.

There were three major success factors for SPORT:

1. Companies and authorities volunteered for the role play in the sub-projects and lived up to their commitments;

2. Clear governance structure of SPORT and clear rules;

3. Analysis of the exercise by an independent consultant.

The structure of the SPORT project included a Steering Group and eight sub-project working groups, one per substance or substance group. Moreover, the establishment of a contact group, a secretariat as well as a contract with an independent consultant enabled the implementation and the daily management of the project. ..."

(From the Introduction)

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