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The European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) project\n                    <jats:italic>ReadyAI<\/jats:italic>\n                    was established to address these challenges by developing a readiness scoring system to evaluate the maturity and regulatory applicability of AI-based models in CRA. The project unites a multidisciplinary consortium of academic, regulatory, and legal experts to define transparent and reproducible criteria encompassing data curation, model development, validation, explainability, and uncertainty quantification. 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