This deliverable aims at presenting the portrait of the Food Safety System actors, who play an active role in thes system. These actors are referred in the text as “stakeholders”, that is a more common term for the public and it includes also those categories of actors indirectly involved in the FSS. This broader focus is needed for the further design and development of the FS4EU platform. The Portrait is intended as a comprehensive picture of the system that allows to identifying per each group of stakeholders the needs and desired kind of gains, in relation to the context, the vision about objectives to achieve and desired connections. The portrait is useful for the FS4EU platform design and shaping, as well as a sort of guidance to know the target groups of the FS4EU project and the actors of the Science-Policy-Society interface, expected to support the Food Safety System. This deliverable includes also a short overview of the Food Safety System in Europe as a framework that needs and favour better connections inside and outside the system, with its strengthens and weaknesses, and the most influencing factors on its dynamics and transformation. The report then presents the approach and the tools applied to “scan” the Food Safety System and identify its actors, in line with the platform design methodology and tools. Finally, per each FSS actors/stakeholders’ categories, it shows a comprehensive portrait, formed by the canvas and tables which explains the identified assets and capabilities, goals and performance pressures as well as different kinds of gains expected to be received as platform users. Finally, by considering the portraits results, the report describes the motivation matrix, as a detailed analysis on the rationale at the basis of the stakeholders’ choices and behavior in the Food Safety System. This matrix supports the process of shaping the FS4EU platform and the services configuration, by matching the needs/motivations of the profiled users (FSS actors)

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