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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9464

10 July 2007
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/terrorism
Commission to launch Green Paper on bio-preparedness

Brussels, 09/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - With the growing danger of the use of viruses, bacteria or micro-organisms by terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, and to be prepared for natural, perhaps accidental, biological threats, the European Commission will, on Wednesday, adopt a Green Paper on bio-preparedness.

Given that bio-threats are at one and the same time a criminal and a health issue the Commissioners with responsibility for Security Franco Frattini and Health Markos Kyprianou will propose...

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