continue to develop comprehensive and coordinated approaches within vaccination programmes, following the Health in All Policies approach creating synergies with broader health policies and pro-actively working with other preventive sectors.

The implementation rate of the OPs varied greatly and in some cases was still a cause for concern at the end of the year, in particular the OPs "technical assistance", "fisheries", "Thessaly", "health", "West Macedonia", "North Aegean", "Epirus", "information society" and "continental Greece".

= the relationship between European and international standardisation and its relevance to the access of European enterprises to the markets of third countries ; = whether, and under what conditions, in cases where harmonised standards are not yet available, while recognising that harmonised standards are the best guarantee of the essential health and safety requirements, alternatives might provide a degree of assurance of conformity to such essential requirements until harmonised standards are adopted ; = the special role of the public authorities, including the Commission, at the different stages of the standardisation process under the New Approach and, in t ...[+++]his context, improvements to the mandating of the European Standards organisations to produce the necessary harmonised standards, including the review of mandates and work programmes with particular reference to the priorities to be given to work items; = whilst recognising that the search for consensus must remain the guiding principle, consideration of the scope for voting within the European Standards organisations at an earlier stage in the development of harmonised standards in support of the New Approach, where all the necessary technical elements are present but a final consensus is proving difficult to establish and is delaying the production of a standard; = the use of new technology by the European Standards organisations to provide greater and more immediate transparency on the progress being made in the preparation of harmonised standards; = the role of pre-standardisation research as a means of improving the quality of standards and the efficiency of the process.

They will comprise : - writing of reports (or forecasting dossiers) on major themes or phenomena of a general nature (scientific development and social cohesion, internationalization of technology, alternative possible futures for the main regions of the world, etc.) ; - studies of the implications of certain scientific and technical developments (technology and health, technology and equality of opportunity, etc.) ; - reviews and critical analyses of the results of the principal forecasting studies published worlwide ; - writing biennal reports on the economic and social implications of technological change.

The main themes for discussion during the seminar will be : - the status, needs and approaches of health education in teachers' preservice training; - methodologies and ways of implementation; - a framework for the training and subjects involved; - guidelines for continuing training in health education for teachers in primary and secondary schools.

The Commission proposes a new approach consisting in the laying down in directives of criteria of safety and the protecxtion of the public interest, such as the protection of health, the consumer and the environment (in the home, at the place of work, etc...), to which products must conform, while entrusting to European standards - and, if necessary, national standards - the definition of technical characteristics of products.