It's the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence.

I think we have two very good systems, the PulseNet system and the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence system, which lets us detect these kinds of events quickly and we detected it at the time; there were 10 cases in a country of 30 million people and where there's a high background of enteric illness and get the information out quickly to the people who need it.

In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Decision, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission to adopt implementing acts in relation to: templates to be used when providing the information on preparedness and response planning; the establishment and update of a list of communicable diseases and related special health issues subject to the network of epidemiological surveillance and the procedures for the operation of such a network; the adoption of case definitions for those communicable diseases and special health issues covered by the epidemiological surveillance network and, where necessary ...[+++], for other serious cross-border threats to health subject to ad hoc monitoring; the procedures for the operation of the EWRS; the procedures for the information exchange on and the coordination of the responses of the Member States; the recognition of situations of public health emergency at Union level and the termination of such a recognition.

The Union has co-financed actions in the field of HTA through the Public Health Programme established by Decision No 1786/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the Health Programme established by Decision No 1350/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , thereby supporting scientific and technical cooperation between national and regional organisations responsible for HTA with the acronym EUnetHTA .

reviewing policies and improving communication by developing awareness raising, risk communication, training and education to give citizens the information they need to make better health choices, and to make sure that professionals in each field are alert to environment and health interactions:Action 9: Develop public health activities and networking on environmental health determinants through the public health programme; Action ...[+++]10: Promote training of professionals and improve organisational capacity in environment and health by reviewing and adjusting risk reduction policy; Action 11: Coordinate ongoing risk reduction measures and focus on the priority diseases; Action 12: Improve indoor air quality; Action 13: Follow developments regarding electromagnetic fields.

An information day was held in Luxembourg on 22 March 2004 to provide information to potential project submitters on how to present proposals to the Public health programme.