(52 ) Routine statistics as well as complementary data on cross-border healthcare are required for efficient monitoring, planning and management of healthcare in general and cross-border healthcare in particular, and their production should be integrated as far as possible within existing data collection systems to enable appropriate monitoring and planning to take account of cross-border care, including appropriate structures at Community level such as the Community statistical system and in particular Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health ...[+++]and health and safety at work , the health information system established within the framework of the health programme established by Decision No 1786/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) and other monitoring activities such as those carried out by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control established by Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European centre for disease prevention and control .

The Commission's proposal needs to be reworded so that, in addition to the collection and processing of data and information etc. , the Centre's missions include the identification and cataloguing of the strategic areas and aims of applied research, as for example when SARS emerged, the promotion of Community action programmes in the public health sector for the prevention and monitoring of diseases, in cooperation with the Commission, and the improvement and strengthening of public health infrastructure for the prevention and monitor ...[+++]ing of human diseases in the EU, since without public health infrastructure no programme or action can be implemented.

To ensure a high level of human health protection in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities, the objectives of the programme may be implemented as joint strategies and joint actions by creating links with relevant Community programmes and actions, notably in the areas of consumer protection, social protection, health and safety at work, employment, research and technological development, internal market, information society and information technology, statistics, agriculture, education, transport, industry and environme ...[+++]nt, and with actions undertaken by the Joint Research Centre and relevant Community bodies with which cooperation shall be fostered.

The EU research network on work-related health and safety in the form of the "Topic Centre on Research – Work and Health" of the Bilbao European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is a good example of such networking.

As part of the effort to ensure a high level of health protection in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities, the actions and the measures of the programme may need to be implemented as joint actions with related Community programmes and actions, notably in the areas of consumer protection, social protection, health and safety at work, transport, agriculture, industry, economic and social cohesion, research and technological development, telematic interchange of data between administrations (IDA), st ...[+++]atistics, information society and information technology (for example e-Europe), education and environment, and with actions undertaken by the Joint Research Centre and Community agencies, such as the European Environment Agency.

As part of the effort to ensure a high level of health protection in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities, the measures of the programme may be implemented as joint actions with related Community programmes and actions, notably in the areas of consumer protection, social protection, research and technological development, telematic interchange of data between administrations (IDA), statistics, education and environment, and with actions undertaken by the Joint Research ...[+++]Centre and Community agencies.