Welcome to the 36th edition of the CPME Newsletter!  With this edition we are delighted to announce that Dr Christiaan Keijzer has been elected as our President for a three-year term from 2022 to 2024. Dr Keijzer has served as Vice-President since 2019 and succeeds Prof. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery who will complete his highly-successful […]

The Stop Cancer at Work Campaign welcomes the provisional political agreement by the European Parliament and European Council to include for the first time greater protection and reference to reprotoxic substances and hazardous medicinal products in the fourth revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD). The agreement aims to provide workers and patients in […]

On 13 December 2021, the CPME adopted the CPME Feedback on the Commission’s Proposal for a Decision establishing the 2030 Policy Programme “Path to the Digital Decade”. CPME feedback focuses on the digital targets of the Proposal, in particular on the digital skills of the population and on the digitalisation of public services. CPME key […]

On 25 November 2021, the CPME Executive Committee approved CPME’s co-signature of a joint statement of the European Health Stakeholder Group on the access of UK bodies to Horizon Europe.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Christiaan Keijzer has been elected as our President for a three-year term from 2022 to 2024. Dr Keijzer has served as Vice President since 2019 and succeeds Prof. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery (Germany) who will complete his highly-successful term at the end of the year and will continue […]

On 27 November 2021, the CPME Board adopted a response to the European Commission public consultation on air quality. It highlights that the EU air quality standards should be made more stringent, fully aligned with the latest WHO recommendations. The revised standards should be achieved as soon as possible, but by 2025 at the latest. […]

On 27 November, the CPME Board adopted the “CPME response to public consultation on the general pharmaceutical legislation (CPME 2021/119 FINAL)“.

On 27 November 2021, the CPME Board adopted the ’CPME Policy on Health Workforce (CPME 2021/096 FINAL).

On the 10th of November, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) and the World Medical Association (WMA) sent an open letter to the President of Turkey H.E Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Minister of Justice Mr Abdulhamit Gül, and the Turkish Minister of Health Dr Fahrettin Koca on the trial against Dr Şeyhmus […]

On 9 November 2021, 20 European organisations, including CPME, launched a call to action to protect children from the marketing of nutritionally poor food. It calls on the European Union to assume responsibility and tackle the exposure of young people to the promotion of nutritionally poor food because there is clear evidence that unhealthy food […]