health intervention area

role of medical support

National Office of Health Emergency Response Teams

Essential Health Interventions Program

fire protection district

high health risk area

Urging judges to rely on the expertise of social work and health care creates a grey area between the two which the vague phrase “reference to the law” does not manage to clarify.

This action should: (a) define the scope and standard operating procedures (SOPs), in particular the role of the different authorities involved and a satisfactory coordination mechanism; (b) identify contact points for a network of public health authorities for the surveillance of and response to health threats due to communicable diseases and other threats which could impact on international conveyance areas at designated airports; (c) assist Member States and their airport authorities to develop core capacities and to implement th ...[+++]e new International Health Regulations, with a particular focus on the implementation of core capacity requirements for the surveillance of and response to health threats due to communicable diseases and other cross-border threats which could impact on international conveyance areas at designated airports; (d) explore the impact on additional requirements for airport infrastructure, both in terms of personnel and equipment; and (e) based on experience in the maritime transport sector, create a network of public health authorities responsible for civil air transportation, with authority over at least the main international airports in the Member States, with the involvement and collaboration of airlines.

2. Believes that an adequate response to natural, health-related or technological disasters should be forthcoming via the Solidarity Fund, the Veterinary Fund, rural development policy, regional policy, the regime of State aids to agriculture and the measures against forest fires within the Forest Focus programme and the new Life+ programme; believes, however, that, so as to catalyse a genuine Community strategy for dealing with disasters, these mechanisms all need to be rendered more flexible, particularly by including under the remit of the Solidarity Fund eligibility criteria that are better adapted to the circumstances of individual ...[+++] disasters, including drought and frost, that these mechanisms should be endowed with increased financial resources and that particular attention should be paid to the most vulnerable producers and geographical areas;

2. Believes that an adequate response to natural, health-related or technological disasters should be available through the EUSF, the Veterinary Fund, rural development policy, regional policy, the agricultural aid regime, and measures against forest fires within the Forest Focus programme and the new Life+ programme; believes, however, that, in order to create a genuine Community strategy for dealing with disasters, these mechanisms must all be rendered more flexible, particularly by including under the remit of the EUSF, eligibility criteria that are better adapted to the circumstances of individual disasters, including drought and fr ...[+++]ost, that these mechanisms should be given increased financial resources and that particular attention should be paid to the most vulnerable producers and geographical areas;