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Oil and gas: onshore exploration and production in the EU (10.12.2018)

The European Commission and its Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) published the final Opinion on the public health impacts and risks resulting from onshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation in the EU. An explanatory factsheet on this Opinion in layman language is also available.

EU Health Ministers adopted Council Recommendation on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (07.12.2018)

The Health Ministers of the EU adopted a Council Recommendation on strengthened cooperation against vaccine preventable diseases.

The Health Equity Pilot Project Holds Final Conference (05.12.2018)

Participants to the conference "Evidence into Practice - Action on Health Inequalities" will discuss a wide range of topics such as addressing and reducing behaviour-related health inequalities and strategies for getting evidence into policy and action.

Health-EU Newsletter: "The State of Health in the EU cycle helps Member States in their policy making" (29.11.2018)

The new Director-General for Health and Food Safety, Anne Bucher, discusses the State of Health in the EU, a two-year cycle of in-depth analysis that strengthens health system knowledge available to both the Member States and the Commission.

Five additional countries to benefit from EU-US mutual recognition agreement for inspections (29.11.2018)

Agreement now operational between 20 EU Member States and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

EU action on health

Improving health systems

Promoting good health

Pharmaceuticals and substances of human origin

Diseases and health threats

Risk assessment

Scientific committees

Endocrine disruptors

Endocrine disruptors

Biocides

Biocides