‘Hospitals’ means the licensed establishments that are primarily engaged in providing medical, diagnostic and treatment services that include physician, nursing and other health services to inpatients and the specialised accommodation services required by inpatients and which may also provide day care, outpatient and home healthcare services.

Further horizontal and structural criteria and conditions related to the exchange of expertise, information systems and eHealth tools should help developing, sharing and spreading information and knowledge and fostering improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases within and outside the Networks and to collaborate closely with other centres of expertise and networks at national and international level. Interoperable and semantically compatible information and communication technology (ICT) systems would facilitate the exchange of health data and patients' information, and the establishment and maintenance of shared databases a ...[+++]nd registries.

Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 establishes emission limits and common technical requirements for the type-approval of motor vehicles and replacement parts with regard to their emissions, laying down rules for in-service conformity, on-board diagnostic (OBD) systems and measurement of fuel consumption.

ensure that seafarers are given health protection and medical care as comparable as possible to that which is generally available to workers ashore, including prompt access to the necessary medicines, medical equipment and facilities for diagnosis and treatment and to medical information and expertise;

The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), an advisory body to the EC President, delivered an opinion on nanomedicine in January 2007.[9] The opinion recognises the potential of nanomedicine in developing new diagnostic, treatment and preventive methods.

8. diagnostic laboratories must have facilities for post-mortem examination, the necessary capacity for serology, histology, etc., and must maintain the skills for rapid diagnosis (to that end arrangements should be made for rapid transportation of samples);