On Tuesday 7 May, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published a joint framework aimed at strengthening their cooperation to support the implementation of the ‘One Health’ programme within the European Union.
A task force made up of members from these five EU agencies will work to implement the Joint Framework for Action over the next three years (2024-2026), focusing on five strategic objectives: strategic coordination, research coordination, capacity building, stakeholder engagement and joint inter-agency activities.
“This will ensure that the scientific advice provided by the agencies is increasingly integrated, that the evidence base for ‘One Health’ is strengthened and that the agencies are able to contribute with a common voice to the ‘One Health’ agenda”, according to a press release from these EU agencies.
Link to this joint action framework: https://aeur.eu/f/c52 (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)