Risk and Regulation Advisory Council

On the homepage of the government's new Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, launched last week, the introductory blurb runs:

"On taking office as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown committed to taking the Better Regulation agenda to a new level by focusing upstream at where policy-making engages with risk. This is the critical starting-point of the regulatory process. It is here that culture and process must achieve a better understanding of public risk."

Does anybody have an idea what that means? Any suggestions gratefully accepted. I hope it's not code for "there are a lot of stories in the Daily Express knocking the Nanny State, we've got to be seen to be doing something".