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EU steps up efforts to increase availability and boost healthcare data sharing

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The European Commission has put forward a set of measures to increase the availability of data in the EU, building on previous initiatives to boost the free flow of non-personal data in the Digital Single Market. Data-driven innovation is a key enabler of market growth, job creation, particularly for SMEs and startups, and the development […]

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EU Best Practice Portal

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Identifying, disseminating and transferring best practices is a priority for the EU in order to support the progress towards health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention in Europe to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 and the nine UN/WHO global voluntary targets. This portal is a “one-stop shop” for consulting good and best practices collected in

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Blood, Tissues and Cells legislation needs to keep pace with developments

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The evaluation of the EU legal frameworks on blood, tissues and cells found that the majority of the respondents consider that the legislation had made blood, tissues and cells safer in the EU. However, they also find that the legislation is not up-to-date with scientific, technological, epidemiological or societal developments and that the process of updating is not flexible

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Protecting workers against cancer-causing chemicals

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The European Commission is proposing to limit workers’ exposure to five cancer-causing chemicals, in addition to the 21 substances that have already been limited or proposed to be limited. Estimates show that this proposal would improve working conditions for over 1,000,000 EU workers and prevent over 22,000 cases of work-related illness. The following five carcinogens

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Systems for tobacco traceability and security features 

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Articles 15 and 16 of the Tobacco Products Directive provide for EU-wide systems of traceability and security features for tobacco products to address the issue of illicit trade. The traceability system aims to: Contribute to reducing the circulation of non-compliant tobacco products Reduce artificially cheap supplies of illegal tobacco products Protect public health, State budgets, and

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4{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} annual decrease too slow to end TB by 2030

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A new report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe indicates that the number of new tuberculosis (TB) patients has been decreasing at an average rate of 4.3{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} yearly in the last decade in the WHO European Region. Despite being the fastest decline in the world,

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Agreement on first ever EU legislation to monitor and report CO2 emissions from heavy-duty vehicles

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The new rules are part of the EU’s Strategy on low-emission mobility and Communication on delivering on low-emission mobility laying out actions for a fundamental modernisation of European mobility and transport Accelerating the shift to clean and sustainable mobility is essential to improve the quality of life and health of citizens and contribute to the

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Building Cooperation in Cross-border Healthcare

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The Study “Cross-border cooperation: capitalising on existing initiatives for cooperation in cross-border regions” published by the Commission today maps EU-funded cooperation projects for the period 2007 to 2017 in EU and EEA countries and Switzerland; provides insight into opportunities and challenges for cross-border cooperation in healthcare; and offers guidance to local and regional authorities and

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