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<p>The Environment Agency has developed a nomination process that integrates horizon
scanning, environmental monitoring, and international collaboration. Nominations are
received from internal and external stakeholders, collected from systematic reviews
of published research, and watchlists developed by international environmental agency
counterparts.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals and organisations are able to feed into the
nomination process by raising chemical substances of concern to any contact within
DEFRA or the Environment Agency via <a href="mailto:PEWS@environment-agency.gov.uk"
target="_blank">PEWS@environment-agency.gov.uk</a> who can nominate the substance
following the instructions provided on the internal intranet page for PEWS.</p><p>
</p><p>The Environment Agency has adopted recommendations made by the Hazardous Substances
Advisory Committee on stakeholder engagement, from their 2021 review of PEWS.</p>
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