15 JANUARY 2018 – 2nd PROCESS CUSTODIAN GROUP MEETING
The Process Custodians Group (PCG) is a governance structure that is in place to ensure that the Scientific Assessment process is fair and rigorous. The 2nd meeting of the of the PCG was convened on the 15th of January 2018. The Project Management team (PMT) were at the meeting by invitation and for consultation.
During the course of the meeting, Dave Balfour presented a report on the PredSA Process to date, which covered the past 18-months of the assessment. He highlighted the crucial role the PCG had played in the process to date, which included passing motions of “no objection” to the ZOD outline, the composition of the author teams and the selection of expert reviewers. Is report further explained that all the reviewer and stakeholder comments had been taken into account and that a final draft of the PredSA was now available.
Following the meeting, the PCG were given a period of one week to review the author responses to the stakeholder comments. This resulted in an indication of “no-objection” from the PCG. Effectively this mandated the PMT to move ahead with the final publication phase of PredSA.