Health and

Consumers

Recent and forthcoming
developments in EU
Health Policy
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Health and
Consumers
Recent and forthcoming developments in EU
Health Policy
Legislative files
Tobacco; Clinical Trials; EMA Fees
for pharmacovigilance activities;
Medical Devices

Cooperation
Health Determinants
Major and Chronic Diseases
Health Threats
Health Information
Health Systems
eHealth
EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing
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Financing
Joint Actions
Health Programme
Health in Horizon 2020
Health & Structural Funds
2014-2020
Health and
Consumers
Legislative files
Tobacco products Directive
Agreement on the text, final stages of adoption

Clinical Trials
Agreement on the text, final stages of adoption

EMA fees for pharmacovigilance activities
Agreement in trilogue

Medical Devices
Possible political agreement in Council in June
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Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Health Determinants
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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
Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Major and Chronic Diseases
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Chronic Diseases Summit
4-5 April in Brussels

Joint Report on the European Partnership against
Cancer and the Council Recommendation on cancer
screening
Adoption before summer 2014
Summary of activities of the EU cancer policy (including
follow-ups on screening guidelines, national cancer plans,
cancer information system and cancer prevention).
Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Major and Chronic Diseases
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Implementation report on Council Recommendation on
Rare Diseases
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 Alzheimers disease and dementia
Adoption before summer 2014
Outcomes of the initiative, including : Joint Action, Joint
Programming initiative on neurodegenerative diseases (7th
Framework Programme) and the European Innovation
Parntership on Active and Healthy Ageing
Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Health Threats
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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 ;
Signing of a letter of intent (political will to join the agreement)
for MS which would not have finalised their national
ratification/approval process.

Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Health Threats
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Action Plan on HIV/AIDS
Prolongation of the Strategy

AMR Action plan
Conference on the state of play and future challenges
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on 11th December 2013.
Interim report on actions taken so far to be published by
the European Commission 2
nd
quarter 2014.

Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Health Information
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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).
Under 2014 work plan of the new Health Programme, DG
SANCO intends to support a continuation of relevant health
information activities, including the European Core Health
Indicators (ECHI) as a bridge towards a sustainable EU
health information solution.

Health and
Consumers
Cooperation Health Systems
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European Reference Networks (ERN)
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

Health and
Consumers
Cooperation eHealth
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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;
Are an agreement on specifications how to accept electronic
prescription across borders;

Health and
Consumers
Cooperation EIP on Active and Healthy
Ageing
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Key achievements in 2013:
300 Good Practices
Identification of new areas for development of
health policies;

Plans for 2014:
use the EIP deliverables for the development of
policies on ageing and specifically guidelines on
prevention of frailty.

Health and
Consumers
Financing Joint Actions
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Health Inequalities
Final conference 23 January with Ministers from 7 MSs
Results good progress but more needed
Follow up joint action could start end 2014 if sufficient MS interest
Health Workforce
First conference in Bratislava 28-29 January
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
Kick off in Lisbon on 30-31 January 2014.
Health and
Consumers
Financing
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Health Programme 2014-2020
Agreement on the text
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
11
th
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).
Health and
Consumers
Financing - Structural Funds 2014-2020
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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