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Publications - ENVI Coordinators : Results of the ENVI Coordinators' meetings in 2018 - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 11-01-2018 12:48 PM CET Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Publications - ENVI Coordinators : Results of the ENVI Coordinators' meetings in 2017 - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 11-01-2018 12:47 PM CET 13.12.2017 21.11.2017 19.10.2017 12.10.2017 28.09.2017 11.07.2017 31.08.2017 21.06.2017 30.05.2017 04.05.2017 11.04.2017 21.03.2017 09.03.2017 28.02.2017 12.01.2017 Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Highlights - State of paediatric medicines in the EU - 10 years of the EU Paediatric Regulation - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 11-01-2018 11:58 AM CET On 11 January, the ENVI committee held an exchange of views with the Commission on the report it adopted providing the Paediatric Regulation's achievements both in public health and economic terms. The Paediatric Regulation came into force on 26 January 2007. Its objective was to improve the health of children in Europe by facilitating the development and availability of medicines for children. Figures show that the Regulation has had a positive impact on the development of paediatric medicines, on the authorisation of new medicines, on the use of rewards. However those positive results do not evenly spread among all therapeutic areas. They do concentrate in certain areas, often linked to research priorities in adults rather than children. This shows that the Regulation works best in areas where the needs of adult and paediatric patients overlap. Additional effort is needed to combine the effect of the Regulation with those of the Orphan medicines regulation to address shortcomings in treating rare diseases in children. The Commission now intends to take a closer look at the combined effects of the Orphan and Paediatric Regulation, through a joined evaluation of those two legal instruments in order to providing results by 2019. Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Highlights - Exchange of views with Commissioner Stylianides on Civil Protection Mechanism - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 11-01-2018 11:58 AM CET On 11 January 2018, the ENVI committee held an exchange of views with Commissioner Christos Stylianides, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, aiming at presenting the Commission proposal on amending the Union Civil Protection Mechanism. The proposal is intended to introduce some targeted changes to Council Decision No 1313/2013/EU on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism, under which the European Union supports, coordinates and supplements the action of Member States in the field of civil protection to prevent, prepare for and respond to natural and man-made disasters within and outside the Union.  Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP Latest news - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 11-01-2018 11:57 AM CET The next ENVI Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday 24 (09.00 - 12.30 and 14.30 - 18.30) and Thursday 25 January 2018 (09.00 - 12.30) in Brussels. As of 1 July 2015 the ENVI Committee decided to fully implement the paperless project for meetings. Therefore, there will be no more paper documents available in the meeting room. All the documents will be available through the "Meeting documents" tab under "Useful documents" on this webpage. Further information Work in progress - ENVI ITER listing (Updated 08.01.2018) ENVI meeting dates 2018 ENVI MEPs Vademecum 10.2017 Agencies under ENVI remit - Factsheet ENVI on Twitter Supporting analysis - Policy Department A Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us | This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111