1. Wednesday 16 May 2018 Zagreb, Croatia
  MEETING WITH CROATIAN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT Vytenis Andriukaitis European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Zagreb, Croatia

2. Multiannual Financial Framework
Commission proposal: The Multiannual Financial Framework for A Modern Budget for a Union that Protects, Empowers and Defends 2 May 2018
Health strand within European Social Fund
Food Safety strand in Single Market Programme

3. What is Health Technology Assessment?
"Health technology” comprises:
medicines,
medical devices,
in vitro diagnostics devices,
medical and surgical procedures, measures for disease prevention, vaccination, treatments - used in healthcare.
HTA an evidence-based process that assesses the added value (relative effectiveness) of a given health technology/health interventions and compares it with other health technologies and / or the current standard of care.

4. Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
HTA assesses the added value (relative effectiveness) of a given health technology over and above existing ones.
Offers EU countries the chance to pool expertise
New proposal for HTA post-2020 presented in January
Key elements: pragmatic, balanced, ambitious, feasible
Next steps: discussion in Parliament & Council

5. Number of measles cases, EU/EEA, March 2018

6. Burden of disease attributable to main risk factors 2013
Source: The Lancet, 2015

7. Tobacco consumption in the EUHR
35 %
Source: Special Eurobarometer 458, Attitudes of Europeans towards Tobacco and Electronic Cigarettes, 2017

8. State of Health in the EU

9. European Semester – Health Systems Sustainability

10. General Food Law State of play Next steps
Fitness Check published in January
Online consultation
Commission proposal to boost transparency and sustainability of EU’s risk assessment model
adopted on 11 April 2018
Next steps
Discussion in Parliament and Council

11. Animal Welfare EU Animal Welfare Strategy
EU Platform on Animal Welfare
EU Reference Centre for Animal Welfare
Enforcement projects
International activities

12. Fight Food Waste: no impact on safety of the food and feed chain
EU Platform on food waste prevention
Measure and monitor food waste
EU guidelines to facilitate food donation
Optimise safe use of food in feed
Promote better understanding
and use of date marking

13. Adopted on 29 June 2017

14. One Health Action Plan on AMR
MAKING THE EU A BEST PRACTICE REGION ON AMR
BOOSTING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION ON AMR
SHAPING THE GLOBAL AGENDA ON AMR

15. Thank you!
Contact me:
@V_Andriukaitis facebook.com/vytenisandriukaitis