The European Commission is preparing to unveil its new action plan against antimicrobial resistance. According to our information, it will be a communication with no legislative proposals. Even more astonishing is that it will contain no targets or key indicators, contrary to what the Council called for in its conclusions of June 2016 (see EUROPE 11574).
Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of micro-organisms to resist antimicrobial treatments to which were initially effective. This is a...