On 17 June 2021, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the ’CPME response to the public consultation on the taxation of tobacco products and new products’. Please find here.

On 7 June, the CPME contributed with feedback to the Commission’s roadmap on a Declaration of Digital Principles. European Doctors advise caution on the intensive use of digital technologies in children and young people, calling for a broader and proactive principle that encompasses ‘prevention’ against the negative effects of the online space, reading as “Protecting […]

On 20 May 2021, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) published a statement on the European Commission’s proposal to create a Digital Green Certificate to prove that a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19, received a negative test result, or recovered from COVID-19.

On 8 April 2021, the CPME Executive Committee adopted a response to the Public Consultation on the Green Paper on Ageing

On 15 April, CPME replied to the Commission’s public consultation on shaping the European public sector interoperability policy. Since the questions of the public consultation did not allow contextualising interoperability in the healthcare sector, CPME opted for commenting via an annexed statement . Please see CPME response to the public consultation shaping EU interoperability policy. […]

On 8 April, the CPME Executive Committee adopted a statement addressing certain particularities of interoperability in the healthcare sector, offering few recommendations. European doctors stress that an interoperability policy in the healthcare sector needs to be driven by specific fundamental principles, such as security by design, privacy by design, medical confidentiality and ethical principles. Moreover, […]

On 8 April 2021, the CPME Executive Committee adopted a response to the Public Consultation on Shopping for alcoholic and tobacco products in another EU country.

On 20 March 2021, the CPME board adopted the new CPME policy on Telemedicine, accessible here. With this paper, CPME intends to highlight that telemedicine has the potential to be used in a number of clinical scenarios, discussing dome of the advantages of its use as well as potential risks. CPME furthermore underlines that telemedicine […]

On 20 March 2021, the CPME Board adopted the ’CPME Position on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control’ (CPME 2021/025 FINAL).

Joint conference of the Standing Committee of European Doctors and the German Medical Association (BÄK) – 20 November 2020. The event was part of the associated programme of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the EU. Summary video here. The conference opened with a statement by Jens Spahn, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, on digital […]