NICNAS attended the OECDs 23 ^rd Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) Initial Assessment Meeting (SIAM) and a meeting of the Final Review Board of the IPCS Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) program. NICNAS also reviewed and provided pre-meeting comment on assessments discussed at the 24 ^th SIAM. In all, 94 chemical assessments were discussed at these forums, with 91 assessments endorsed following peer review by member countries at the meetings. Five-year trend data on the number of chemical assessments discussed and agreed at these forums is provided in Table 18. Details of the OECD SIDS and IPCS CICADS programs are provided in Appendix 09.

Table 18: Existing Chemical program participation in international assessment activities over five years

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Number of international assessment meetings attended	2	2	3	3	3
Number of international assessments discussed at meetings	85	139	106	139	94
Number of international assessments reviewed by NICNAS prior to the meetings	44	61	59	56	38
Number of international assessments agreed at the meetings	75	124	102	132	91