Traduction de «World Health Organization performance status scale » (Anglais → Français) :

The period of application of the measures provided for in this Decision should take account of the epidemiology of African swine fever and the conditions to regain the African swine fever free status according to the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World Organization for Animal Health and therefore this period should last at least until 31 December 2017.

7. Takes the view that the proposed exercise should focus first and foremost on the very aims of the multilateral trade system, to ensure that they are mutually supportive and consistent with the action being taken by other international organisations; considers in particular that the coordination of WTO activities with those of the International Labour Organization ( ILO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health ...[+++] Organization (WHO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Kyoto programme on renewable energy, should be strengthened, in order to ensure greater consistency in the decision-making processes of those organisations; in this connection, believes that the ILO should be granted observer status before the WTO and that a committee on trade and decent employment should be set up modelled on the Committee on Trade and Environment;

Despite support on those three occasions for that observer status, Canada opposed it last year at the World Health Assembly, the international body that discusses World Health Organization policy.

Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Verchères—Les-Patriotes, BQ): Mr. Speaker, in response to a question I asked on March 12 about Taiwan's request for observer status at the World Health Organization, the Minister of Foreign Affairs informed me that the bylaws of this international organization did not permit such status to be granted.

- MEDICINAL PLANT PREPARATIONS "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas, in its Resolution of 30 November 1995 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies, the Council considers that the Community must pay particular attention to the impact on health of action proposed in a number of areas, including free movement of goods; Whereas action to improve understanding of and address the effects on human health of the free movement of goods, in particular the free movement of medicinal products, should form part of the Community's overall strate ...[+++]gy for action in the field of public health; Considering the wider use of medicinal plants in medical treatment in the European Union; Considering the growing use of medicinal plants in the European Union; Considering the impact of medicinal plant preparations on public health and the recommendations of the World Health Organization; Considering the heterogeneity of the commercial presentation of those preparations on the market; Whereas the safeguarding of public health must be a priority objective at Community level; Whereas it is also necessary to pay appropriate attention to conditions which will ensure that the development of industry and the free movement of such products within the European Union are not hindered; Considering the specific problems involved in checking raw materials and medicinal plant preparations from third countries in order to guarantee their quality; Whereas it is appropriate to take into account the special characteristics of such preparations; Whereas it is necessary to guarantee the protection of consumers' health throughout the whole process of manufacture, distribution and putting up for sale, CALLS ON the Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States, to study the situation that exists and, in particular: - whether there are public health concerns over medicinal plant preparations ...

The programme will focus on the following : - Identification and establishment of a series of health indicators and data at the European and Member State level. - Establishment of a network for the collection and dissemination of data between the national administrations, the Commission and international organizations working in the sphere of public health, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization of Economi ...[+++]c Cooperation and Development (OECD). - In-depth analysis of health indicators, to gauge the impact of health and health-related actions and programmes, and assess the trends in health status in the European Union. - Dissemination of the results by way of reports, information materials, seminars, etc.