Global Animal Health European Perspectives

Global Animal Health
European Perspectives
Dr Johan Vanhemelrijck
GALVmed: www.GALVmed.org
The 5thAll Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture
Commercialization of Livestock Agriculture in Africa:
Challenges and opportunities October 25-28, 2010.
25-28/10/2010 1Dr. Johan Vanhemelrijck GALVmed

Europe and Member States
in the world
 Supporting Millennium Development goals
 Supporting partnerships for development
 Supporting fair trade
 Supporting cooperation
 Supporting global health
 Supporting global fund.
 Supporting safety and security, peace keeping
 Supporting initiatives against climate change
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Europe and Member States
in Europe
 Guardians of European Food Safety
 Promised full traceability of food
 Installed Rapid alert systems
 Imposed quality assurance systems with
inspectorates
 Risk reduction
 Support to European farmers
 Common Agricultural policy

Europe: Who decides?
 European Issues:
– European Commission Proposes
– European Parliament and European Council co-decide according to the
European Lisbon treaty rules.
– European Commission guardian of the treaties and implementation.
 National Issues:
– Multilateral actions: consensus amongst Member states
– Bilateral actions: interested Member States
 Technical issues:
– Commission proposes
– Parliament and or council decide

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DGs relevant to Animal health
and livestock issues
 DG TRADE: to trade safe and guaranteed traceable livestock
and its produce avoiding to import risk
 DG RELEX: Support to the development of the systems to
improve the infrastructures, the cooperation towards
development.
 DG ENTREPRISE: Support and stimulation of innovation by
entrepreneurs and SMEs, also for innovation in the field of
health.
 DG ENVIRONMENT: Combat climate change, reduce foot print
on the planet. Interested by sustainability criteria.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG TRADE: to trade safe and guaranteed traceable livestock
and its produce avoiding to import risks.
 To avoid dumping from third countries
 To support the goals of risk reduction of DG Sanco
 To support the goals of Risk reduction of DG Agriculture
 To avoid import of new diseases.
 But at the same time negotiate trade agreements and improve
global trade

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG RELEX: Support to the development of the systems to
improve the infrastructures, the cooperation towards
development and security
• The Directorate-General for External Relations (DG RELEX ) contributes to
policy formulation and works closely with other Directorates-General,
notably EuropeAid, Development, Trade and Humanitarian Aid.
• Comparable to a ministry of external affairs.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG ENTREPRISE:
Support and stimulation of innovation by entrepreneurs and
SMEs, also for innovation in the field of health.
 Directed towards European enterprises, but stimulates
cooperation between enterprises.
 NEW! Commissioner TAJANI wants a report on ACCESS TO
MEDICINES IN AFRICA. We should add animal medicines to the
report.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG AGRICULTURE: aim to protect European Ag and
Livestock
 DG HEALTH AND CONSUMER: Aim to protect and
empower the European Consumer and keep the
European Livestock healthy: One Health
 DG RESEARCH: To stimulate research supporting the
European policies, creating ideas, train people,
coordinate the research institutes
 DG DEVELOPMENT and EUROPAID: To combat poverty,
improve the sanitary conditions, food security, risk
mitigation of diseases.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG AGRICULTURE:
aim to protect European Ag and Livestock
 Tendency to limit import from countries seen as competing
EU farms.
 Tendency to question the disease control systems
 Tendency to be suspicious of the sanitary quality
 Would prefer exporting than importing

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG HEALTH AND CONSUMER: Aim
to protect and empower the European Consumer and
keep the European Livestock healthy: One Health
 Very aware of the difficulties to reduce risk, and asking
partners huge efforts to do so according to the same systems
as Europe has done it.
 Offers training on food production and safety for countries
wanting to export to EU.
 Supports disease prevention but prefers EU accepted vaccines
and medicines, and again full traceability.
 Is the lead DG responsible for the EFSA (European Food Safety
Authority) and the Food and feed inspection

A new Animal Health Strategy
for the European Union (2007-
2013) where “Prevention is
Action Plan of the New Animal Health Strategy
Underlying principles:
Partnership and Communication
Pillar 1
Prioritisation
of
EU
intervention
Pillar 2
A modern
EU animal
health
framework
Pillar 3
Improve
prevention,
crisis
preparedness
Pillar4
Science,
Innovation
and Research

A new Animal Health Strategy
for the European Union (2007-
2013) where “Prevention is
“Prevention is better than cure”
Reactive
approach “cure”
Proactive
approach “prevention”
€€
€
€
Investment in
prevention
Direct and indirect
costs

The new Community Animal Health Policy
« Prevention is better than cure » 2007-2013
Respond to new challenges
 emerging and re-emerging diseases
 climate change, expansion of vectors
 increase trade in animals & animal products
 enlargement of the EU: 27
 scientific & technological progress
 increase demand for safety, animal welfare and environment
 better use of resources
 evolved institutional framework

• 3.3. Better border bio-security
• Revision of the current legislation (risk-based approach to
border inspections).
• Optimise coordination of agencies/services regulating imports.
• Make travellers aware of restrictions and of their
responsibilities.
• Help third countries combat threats at the source and provide
assistance. Is money available?

– Participation of all involved in animal health (NGOs,
consumers and governments) as well as interested citizens.
– Underlying Principle: Partnership
– Stakeholders to give input as well as take responsibility.
– Establish an “Animal Health Advisory Committee

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG RESEARCH:
To stimulate research supporting the European
policies, creating ideas, train people, coordinate the
research institutes
 Specific collaboration programmes to improve the
knowledge in partnering countries but also the European
researchers.
 Often need partners investing an equal amount in the R&D.
 Specific programmes for Africa are sometimes available.

ETPGAH
Stakeholder Collaboration
Declan O’ Brien, Chairman, Executive Board, ETPGAH,

GALVmed, Brussels
April 16th, 2010
ETPGAH in a Nutshell
• Agree on the most important animal
diseases
• Agree on the most important gaps
• Direct research towards filling those
gaps

Stakeholder Driven
 European Associations relevant to Animal Health and Welfare and Food
Safety:
IFAH-Europe, COPA-COGECA (farming industry), EuropaBio, Diagnostics,
FVE (Veterinarians), Eurogroup for Animals
 International organizations relevant to Animal Health and Welfare and Food
Research Organizations
e.g. OIE, FAO, WHO, ILRI, GALVmed
 European Regulatory Authorities
Heads of Medicines Agencies, EMEA, EDQM
 Representatives from the European Research Community
Universities, Institutes, Network of Reference Laboratories, Networks of Excellence
 Member State Representations
CVOs, Mirror Groups
 European Institutions
 EFSA, European Commission (DG Research, DG SANCO, DG Development, DG Enterprise)

The Vision
Published August 2005
“To facilitate and accelerate the
development and distribution of the
most effective tools for controlling
animal diseases of major importance to
Europe and the rest of the world,
thereby improving human and animal
health, food safety and quality, animal
welfare, and market access,
contributing to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals.”

Priorities & Gaps
Which diseases are most important?
Which gap in the disease is most important?
National, EU or Global perspective?
Stakeholders need to agree & focus limited
resources on critical targets
This is the work of DISCONTOOLS!

Global Perspective - 1
Diseases do not respect borders!
Reduce Global disease burden
Prepare for emerging diseases
What is next – AHS, RVF, West Nile???
FMD, AI & Bluetongue have changed the
policy context

Global Perspective - 2
Global platform is created under a FP 7 call
involves Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Europe, South
Africa, Russia, India, China, Australia, New Zealand still
requesting African counterpart
Agree Global priorities
20% of potential production lost to disease
Link up & focus funding across Globe
Tremendous benefit to donor Nations, World Bank,
Foundations
Discover new tools quicker – huge benefit to broader society

For more information:
ETPGAH
c/o IFAH-Europe AISBL
1 rue Defacqz, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 543 7569
Email: animaltp@ifahsec.org
www.ifaheurope.org/EUPlatform/Platform.htm

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 DG DEVELOPMENT and EUROPAID:
To combat poverty, improve the sanitary conditions,
food security, risk mitigation of diseases.
 Very aware of your general needs.
 Starts to be aware of the value of livestock for Africa.
 Needs requests from you that help you but also alleviate
some of the concerns of the other DGs.
 Poverty alleviation is a genuine goal! Poverty alleviation that
provides food safety is better, in a sustainable way is even
better.

General approach to technical cooperation
within the
European Commission DG Development
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“VACNADA” a success story
“Vaccines for the Control of Neglected Animal Diseases in Africa”
• Under the EU € 1 billion Food Facility: rapid response to alleviate the
consequences of the volatile food prices amongst vulnerable rural
African communities by improving the health of livestock
• For selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, budget 20M€
• Will provide vaccines and improve vaccine production and
distribution to reduce impact of targeted disease:
NewcastleDisease (ND), Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia
(CCPP), Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Contagious Bovine
Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)

Member States of European Union
 EMIDA ERA-NET: Coordination of European Research
on Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases of Livestock
 Emida Global Health Eranet demanding African
partnering countries.
 Bilateral agreements

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