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Legislative files
Cooperation
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Clinical Trials
EMA fees for pharmacovigilance activities
Agreement in trilogue
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Action Plan on Childhood Obesity
To be endorsed at the Presidency conference on "Nutrition and Physical Activity from childhood to old age" (25-26 February)
Youth and alcohol Action Plan
CNAPA document (Committee on national Alcohol Policy and Action)
Develop actions to focus on youth and binge drinking
Conference "Health in Europe – Making it Fairer"
18 March
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4-5 April in Brussels
Joint Report on the European Partnership against Cancer and the Council Recommendation on cancer screening
Adoption before summer 2014
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Adoption before summer 2014
New Commission expert group on rare diseases replacing the European Union Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases
Implementation report on the Commission Communication on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Adoption before summer 2014
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Joint Procurement Agreement (JPA)
Comments on the authentic linguistic versions of the JPA by end February.
Commission's internal approval (after confirmation of need for authentic linguistic versions by MS): March 2014
After approval JPA will be sent to MS for the national ratification/approval process.
Possible signing event "back-to-back" to the EPSCO Council
(19/20 June 2014):
Signing by the Commission and MS which would have ratified/approved the JPA ;
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AMR Action plan
Conference on the state of play and future challenges antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on 11th December 2013.
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Scoping paper on “A potential ERIC on Health information” elaborated by an Ad hoc core working group (13 MS, Norway, experts) discussed at the EGHI meeting in January 2014.
As a result, representatives of 10 MS and Norway expressed interest to form a consortium and prepare an application for a design study funding under Horizon 2020 (deadline 2 September 2014).
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implementing legislation on criteria for ERNs and healthcare providers wishing to join a Network, and
procedure for establishment and evaluation of ERNs
Adoption expected in March 2014
Report on Cross Border Health Care Directive
Adopted on 3 February 2014
Report on patient safety (implementation of Council Recommendation):
Adoption expected in May 2014
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Guidelines on exchange of patient summary:
Adopted by eHealth Network in 2013;
Are an agreement on specifications how basic patient information can be shared electronically across borders;
Forthcoming guidelines on ePrescription:
First political discussion May 2014, adoption Nov 2014;
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Plans for 2014:
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Results – good progress but more needed
Follow up joint action could start end 2014 – if sufficient MS interest
Health Workforce
Chronic Diseases and Healthy Ageing
Kick off 29 January - will run until the end of March 2017.
Work towards a mechanism for the collection, validation, scaling up and transferring of good practices to address Chronic Diseases, multi-morbidity and diabetes.
Reducing Alcohol Related Harm
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final stages of adoption (April/May)
Work plan prepared in parallel (Programme committee meeting on 3 March)
Health in Horizon 2020 :
First calls of the Work Programme 2014-2015 adopted on 11th December 2013: € 1,2 billion for health.
Overall “Health, demographic change and wellbeing” allocated approximately € 7.47 billion out of € 77 billion for the whole Horizon 2020 (2014-2020).
The Annual Work Plan 2014 will be submitted for informal consultation to the Programme Committee of the previous HP 2008-2013 and adoption by the College.
This is expected to be done pending the adoption of the Programme Regulation and positive opinion of the new Programme Committee established.
Publication of AWP and Programme Regulation are expected quasi-simultaneously in April/early May.
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Member States can request funding for health
Ongoing country-level negotiations (Partnership Agreements target deadline: August 2014)
Health eligible in 7 of the 11 thematic objectives: research and innovation, ICT, SMEs, employment, social inclusion, education, and institutional capacity
SANCO inside the Commission contributes:
Advice to REGIO and EMPL on health priorities
Internal guidance consolidating health eligibility by linking EU health policy recommendations with SF eligibility
Assessment of the health ex-ante conditionality
Capacity building with Member States
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