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The European Commission (EC) is the EU's executive body. It drafts proposals for new European laws. It manages the day-to-day business of implementing EU policies and spending EU funds. The Commission also makes sure that everyone abides by the European treaties and laws.
The EC is active on a wide range of policy fields that are relevant for safety promotion, such as road safety, work safety, violence prevention and consumer safety (see the EC website). Injury prevention is also taken up as a priority issue in the framework of EU-Health programme, which major objectives are:
- To improve citizens’ health security;
- To promote health, including the reduction of health inequalities;
- To generate and disseminate health information and knowledge.
On 31 May 2007 the Council of the European Union officially adopted the Council Recommendation on the prevention of injury and the promotion of safety</a>]. This is recorded in the Official Journal of the European Union 2007/C164/01 of July 18, 2007. (CELEX-Nr. 32007H0718)
The adoption of the Recommendation is a vital step in putting injury prevention and safety promotion higher on the policy agenda in the EU. Furthermore, it will provide adequate public legitimacy for further actions. A main focus of immediate EU action is to further develop the Injury Database (IDB) on accidents and injuries with a view to achieving representative and comparable data within all Member States. In addition, the Recommendation foresees a wider dissemination and implementation of prevention measures that have been proven to be successful in order to make efficient use of existing models of good practice in all Member States.
In order to develop national actions and action plans for implementing the Council Recommendation on injury prevention and safety promotion, a Working Group on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was established in September 2007. Members are comprised of governmental experts from ministries of health.
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