- It manages many Rapid Alert Systems (‘RAS’) to provide swift and efficient responses to specific sectoral disasters, ranging from bio-chemical attacks to communicable epidemics and animal diseases, oil spills or marine pollution to critical infrastructure protection[1].

Also associated with aquaculture is a whole range of other problems, including the spread of disease and parasites to wild fish, the use of fish, fishmeal and fish oil as food with impacts on wild fish stocks, pollution of the sea floor from unconsumed food, the impact on predators when they are killed and the antibiotics used to control the disease.

The report promotes the following: a global fund financed by G8, the EU, oil-rich nations and others to finance access to and supply of medication and treatment; a global strategy to implement a programme of action to treat and prevent communicable diseases; tiered pricing of medicines from the pharmaceutical industry to ensure wide access to treatment; support for health infrastructure to scan, diagnose, treat and monitor patients, as supply of medicines in itself is inadequate; use of incentives – both financial and legislative – to enhance research and development to produce new medicines and vaccines by both industry and the publ ...[+++]ic sector; the European Commission to work closely with the governments of developing countries, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society to implement the programme.

There is an urgent need to establish a global fund - Infectious Disease Fund (IDF) - a fund supported by the EU, governments of industrialised countries, governments of oil-rich Arab states, international banks and agencies, rich corporations and millions of citizens all over the world.

- the most stringent environmental protection rules, including oil-spill prevention, pipeline routing, air quality, disease control and accident prevention;

Senator Mahovlich: It is quite ironic that we are getting this Dutch oil disease, because 50 years ago we got Dutch elm disease.