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Future-proofing the EU's global health strategy
The new EU global health strategy, adopted by the European Commission on 30 November 2022, has been positioned as a crucial element of EU external policy, geopolitical influence and strategic autonomy. However, maintaining the long term commitment necessary for achieving global health ambitions in turbulent times remains challenging. Against this backdrop, in 2023 the Policy Foresight Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service conducted a foresight exercise involving external experts to ...
Skyrocketing obesity in children: why everybody should be concerned?
Nearly 400 million children around the world are projected to live with obesity by 2035. Worryingly, that is double the number in 2020. 'Our children are increasingly growing up in environments that make it very difficult for them to eat well and be active. This is a root cause of the obesity epidemic', argued Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, Regional Director for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe. Worryingly, child obesity often carries through to adolescence and is likely to endure into adulthood ...
Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products
During its February II session, the European Parliament is expected to vote its first-reading position on two legislative proposals: a draft recast regulation on the supplementary protection certificate (SPC) and a draft regulation on the unitary SPC, both concerning medicinal products. These parallel proposals are part of a broader package on improving intellectual property rights.
Deset področij kjer bi lahko Evropa naredila več za vas
Svetovni izzivi, kot so podnebne spremembe, geopolitični konflikti, krhanje demokratičnih načel in družbene neenakosti, vplivajo na vsakdanje življenje ljudi in njihove obete za prihodnost. S skupnim evropskim odzivanjem bi lahko v naslednjih desetih letih pripomogli k reševanju teh izzivov in ustvarili koristi v vrednosti do 3 bilijone EUR na leto. To predstavlja približno 18 % bruto domačega proizvoda (BDP) EU, kar ustreza 6700 EUR na leto na državljana. V raziskavi, ki smo jo izvedli v povezavi ...
Protection of workers: Limit values for lead and diisocyanates
In February 2023, the Commission put forward a proposal for a directive aimed at revising the existing limit values for lead, and introducing, for the first time, limit values for diisocyanates, aimed at achieving a high level of protection of workers' health and safety. On 14 November 2023, the co-legislators reached a provisional agreement on the proposal. The agreed text, which requires formal adoption by both institutions, is expected to be put to a plenary vote in February.
Protection of workers: Limit values for lead and diisocyanates
As part of its fight against harmful substances, on 13 February 2023 the Commission tabled a proposal for a directive aimed at protecting workers' health by lowering occupational exposure to lead and diisocyanates. The proposed directive would set, for the first time, occupational limit values for diisocyanates, while revising the limit values for lead for the first time in more than 40 years. It would also include a review mechanism to guarantee regular revisions from now on to make sure that those ...
Javno zdravje
Javnozdravstvena politika je pri oblikovanju politike Evropske unije v zadnjem času stopila v središče med pandemijo covida-19, Parlament pa je med svoja prednostna področja uvrstil raka in prizadevanja za močnejšo evropsko zdravstveno unijo. Pobuda za evropsko zdravstveno unijo obravnava aktualna in prihodnja zdravstvena vprašanja, vključno s krizo zaradi covida-19, krepitvijo odpornosti proti čezmejnim grožnjam za zdravje, izvajanjem načrta za boj proti raku, doseganjem napredka pri evropski strategiji ...
Zdravila in medicinski pripomočki
Področje zdravil in medicinskih pripomočkov urejajo pravila enotnega trga, gre pa za področje, ki neposredno vpliva na zdravje ljudi. Zato zanj velja strog pravni okvir, ki varuje javno zdravje in zagotavlja varnost teh izdelkov. Dostop do cenovno sprejemljivih zdravil, preprečevanje antimikrobične odpornosti, etično izvajanje kliničnih preskušanj, uporaba umetne inteligence pri medicinskih pripomočkih in pobude za raziskave in razvoj so le nekatera ključna vprašanja, s katerimi se na tem področju ...
Plant Health: Revision of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against plant pests
Plants in good health are essential to the European Union's economy and society and are therefore regulated at EU level. Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 (the 'Plant Health Regulation') provides early-stage measures to prevent pests from entering the EU, or to eradicate them immediately if found present on EU territory, thus ensuring a uniform level of phytosanitary protection within the EU territory. The regulation also seeks to level the playing field for EU producers and traders in plant and plant products ...
Onesnaževanje zraka in obremenjenost s hrupom
Onesnaženost zraka je največje okoljsko tveganje za zdravje v Evropi. Cilj strategije EU za kakovost zraka iz leta 2013 je bil popolno upoštevanje veljavne zakonodaje na področju kakovosti zraka do leta 2020, v njej pa so določeni tudi dolgoročni cilji za leto 2030. Unija si prizadeva tudi za dodatno izboljšanje kakovosti zraka z revizijo direktiv o kakovosti zunanjega zraka, direktiva o okoljskem hrupu iz leta 2002 pa je namenjena merjenju ravni hrupa v Uniji in sprejemanju ukrepov za njihovo znižanje ...