13/11/2018 (Agence Europe) – More than two thirds of Member States are now committed to cooperating on genomic data, in order to improve understanding and prevention of diseases and enabling more personalised treatment. On Tuesday 13 November, Latvia joined the eighteen other co-signatories of the declaration of cooperation launched on 10 April last (see EUROPE 11999). These other countries are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This statement has a threefold objective: to bring together fragmented infrastructure and expertise; to leverage and optimize investments already made; and to achieve a larger cohort that will provide a sufficient scale for new clinically relevant research. This with the aim of making one million genomes accessible at European level by 2022. (SPj)