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". – The Commission recognises that diabetes is a chronic disease that poses a major public health challenge to the Community. Its causes are closely linked to the health determinants of diet, obesity and physical activity. These determinants are clearly linked, and a separate approach to each is not likely to be successful.
Research funds will be distributed on a competitive basis following calls for proposals, and information will be made widely available, for example on the research website. In addition to support for research projects, the Sixth Framework Programme will provide funds for fellowships as well as for networking of national diabetes research activities under the chapter 'Strengthening the foundations of the European research area'. That aspect is considered particularly important in order to contribute to the creation of a European research area.
Finally, it should also be mentioned that foods presented as designed to satisfy the particular nutritional requirements of people with diabetes should currently comply with the requirements of Council Directive 89/398 on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses. The Commission intends to present a report to Parliament and the Council on the desirability of special nutritional provisions for people with diabetes.
May I take this opportunity to wish every success to World Diabetes Day on 14 November. I hope to be able to join with those who are promoting this when the diabetes testing and awareness campaign is launched here in Strasbourg on 19 November.
The Treaty limits the competence of the Community in the field of public health by stating that Community action must fully respect the responsibilities of the Member States for the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care. As regards diabetes, the work of the Commission has therefore concentrated on encouraging cooperation between Member States through public health programmes. Through these programmes the Commission has encouraged policy development and measures related to the determinants of type 2 diabetes, namely nutrition, obesity and exercise.
In the new public health programme entering into force on 1 January 2003, attention is given to improving data collection on key health indicators such as nutrition-related mortality and morbidity. Emphasis is also placed on developing common strategies on health determinants such as nutrition.
The existing health promotion, health monitoring and cancer programmes have provided concrete support to a variety of initiatives on diet, nutrition, obesity and physical activity. For example, the support given to conferences such as those held under the French and Danish Council presidencies on the issues of nutrition and obesity. The Eurodiet report on nutrition is now published and available on the Commission website, making it available to a wide international audience.
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC), financed by the cancer programme and carried out by the International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon, is another major initiative on the links between diet and disease. The project, supported by the health promotion programme
is an initiative to promote physical activity as part of a prevention strategy.
All of these activities will have had an impact on the prevention of diabetes. A status report on the place of nutrition in all Commission policy areas, not only public health, will shortly be finalised and published.
Taking account of the limits set out in Article 152 of the Treaty, the Commission does not intend to set up a specific priority plan related to diabetes. Instead, the approach followed by the new public health programme is designed to ensure a complementary and horizontal approach to prevention, rather than the old approach of looking at diseases by means of separate and individual programmes. The new programme is policy-driven and aims to promote policy and activities on health determinants that will have an impact on key challenges such as type 2 diabetes.
Through its framework research programmes the Commission has supported diabetes research in the past. Significant financial support has been made available for this type of research. In the Fifth Framework Programme, diabetes research was covered under the quality of life and management of living resources programme.
The total funding has been more than EUR 18 million. Diabetes research continues to be a priority in the upcoming Sixth Framework Programme under the first priority thematic area 'Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health'."@en1
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