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EU Public Health


State of health in the EU
  • Driving patient-oriented innovations in EU health systems
  • Ensuring the sustainability of Europe’s health systems
  • Economic crisis and healthcare: European health strategy
Health programmes
  • Health for Growth: EU health programme (2014-20)

Ensuring health security


Cross-border threats to health
  • Combating serious cross-border threats to health
 Blood, tissues and organs
  • Quality and safety of organs intended for transplantation
  • Safe human tissues & cells for transplantation
  • Human blood and blood components - maintaining standards

Improving healthcare systems


Cross-border healthcare
  • Healthcare in other EU countries — patients’ rights
Healthcare workforce
  • The EU’s healthcare workforce
Patient safety
  • Patient safety and quality of care in EU public health systems
  • Patient safety and the prevention of healthcare associated infections

Risk assessment

  • The precautionary principle
Scientific committees
  • EU scientific committees on consumer safety (SCCS) & on health, environmental and emerging risks (SCHEER)

Disease prevention


Antimicrobial resistance
  • Prudent use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine
  • Antimicrobial resistance — EU action
Communicable diseases
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Vaccination
  • Seasonal influenza vaccination
  • The role of vaccination in the EU’s healthcare system
Major and chronic diseases
  • Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: EU initiatives
  • Promoting cancer screening in the EU
Rare diseases
  • Rare diseases — improving care and quality of life

Health in society


  • Limiting the exposure of workers to risks from electromagnetic fields (from July 2016)

Pharmaceuticals

Medicines for veterinary use
  • EU rules on the authorisation, import and production of veterinary medicines
  • Authorisation, import and manufacture of veterinary medicines

Security of medical devices

  • EU system to identify medical devices for greater patient safety
  • Active Implantable Medical Devices (AIMDD)
  • Medical Devices (MDD)
  • In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices
In May 2017, the EU adopted new rules on medical devices: which will enter in force in May 2020. The new rules will only fully apply after a transitional period.
  • Medical devices Regulation - From May 2020! (Amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC)
  • In vitro diagnostic medical devices Regulation - From May 2022! (Repealing Directive 98/79/EC and Commission Decision 2010/227/EU)
Sources: European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1995-2025, 

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