‘Health and safety at work - Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work’ on the European Commission's website.

collect and make available information on safety and health matters from and to non-EU countries and international organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

With a view to encouraging improvements, especially in the working environment, as regards the safety and health of workers as provided for in the Treaty and successive action programmes concerning health and safety at the workplace, the aim of the Agency will be to provide the Community, the Member States and those involved in the field with the technical, scientific and economic information required in the field of safety and health at work.

5. In relation to the scientific aspects, the Council welcomes the initiatives taken by the Commission on two aspects: (a) asking the Group chaired by Prof. Charles Weissmann to examine the following three questions: - to review the present state of research in relation to BSE and Creutzfeld-Jakobs-Disease (CJD), - to recommend to the Commission the need for further research into these questions, - to specifically review the question of a possible link between BSE and CJD and to identify those research bodies and institutes relevant to carry out the necessary research (b) creating as soon as possible a multi-disciplinary scientific committee, combining expertise on human medicine ...[+++], veterinary, public and animal health, toxicology and biology, to give scientific advice to the Commission and make policy recommendations on matters of Community competence.

The programme would thus coordinate 25% of all research work on medicine and health in the Community.

The indicative budget of this programme is as follows: 1) Major Health Problems Million ECU % - Cancer 18.0 27.5 - AIDS 14.0 21.5 - Age-related health problems 9.0 14.0 - Environment and life-style related health problems 5.5 8.5 2) Health Resources - Medical technology 11.5 17.5 - Health services research 7.0 11.0 Total 65.0 100 % Sharing money with a small budget The medical and health programme is designed specifically to achieve a better coordination of the research carried out by national organizations, and allows unnecessary duplication of effort and waste of resources to be eliminated.