CPME Activities UEMS Council meeting Dr Jacques de HALLER Brussels, Belgium 19 - 20 October 2018 Dr Jacques de HALLER CPME President

Reflections on mobility of non-EU doctors 21 September 2018 Dr Jacques de Haller CPME President

Introducing CPME CPME represents the national medical associations across Europe. We are committed to contributing the medical profession’s point of view to EU institutions and European policy-making through pro-active cooperation on a wide range of health and healthcare related issues. CPME promotes the highest level of medical training and practice but also the provision of evidence-based, ethical and equitable healthcare services.

Recent CPME activities Outcomes of CPME Board and General Assembly, 13-14 April CPME statement on draft Health Technology Assessment (HTA) regulation CPME Policy on Trans fats Further policy developments Meetings to come

CPME on draft HTA Regulation HTA cooperation on EU level aims at enhancing evidence-based decisions on new drugs and methodologies Essential to involve healthcare professionals Highest level of independence and transparency Voluntary participation of Member States Methodology, timelines and evidence requirements needs to be agreed upon upfront

CPME Policy on Trans Fats Encourage the EU to limit the intake of trans fats, who increase the risk for coronary heart disease Legislative limit = protect all EU health citizens equally Doctors should be trained to contribute to improving and maintaining healthy lives CPME calls on the European Commission to set a limit on trans fats and introduce mandatory labelling of trans fats content The Commission is expected to publish their impact assessment report soon

Further policy developments (1) CPME lobbying on Proportionality Directive was successful in ensuring special status for healthcare professions Continued monitoring of implementation of General Data Protection Regulation and of code of conduct initiatives SEPEN expert network on health workforce planning and forecasting has been launched Join the network at www.healthworkforce.eu !

Further policy developments (2) CPME lobbying on better alcohol labelling, calling to end the exemption of alcoholic beverages from EU Regulation 1169/2011, and list the ingredients and nutritional values on the product’s label CPME participated in the joint activities of the European Medical Organisations Publication of Joint Statement of the EMOs on the Central Role of Medical Doctors, 28 May 2018 Joint BMA-EMOs event in European Parliament on ‘Keeping Europe Healthy: Brexit and the European Medical Profession’, 23 May 2018

Further policy developments (3) CPME participates in the new EU Joint Action on Vaccination, aiming to build concrete tools to improve vaccination coverage in the EU CPME lobbying on the future of health in the EU and the next EU budget CPME calls for a strong Commission for health A proper allocation of financial resources needs to be guaranteed for health policies

Save the dates ! Next CPME meetings: Geneva, 9-10 November 2018 Joint CPME-FVE-CED regional conference on ‘One Health’: Paris, 5 December 2018

Thank you for your attention ! Dr Jacques de Haller, President mail@jdehaller.ch CPME Comité Permanent des Médecins Européens Standing Committee of European Doctors 15 Rue Guimard - 1040 Brussels tel:  +32 2732 72 02 fax: +32 2732 73 44 www.cpme.eu 11