Reporting and evaluation criteria as means towards a transparent use of ecotoxicity data for environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals

► A structured approach to data evaluation increases the transparency and predictability of the risk assessment process. ► A structured approach to data reporting opens up for use of data from the open scientific literature in risk assessments. ► Both relevance and reliability aspects are included in the reporting and evaluation criteria. ► The criteria can be used by risk assessors, by researchers, for education purposes and in the peer-review process.