Process and ideas

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Process and ideas

• Mirror group Denmark

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Organisation and process

• Steering committee, repr. from agr.industy,
  pharmaceutical industry, authorities and
  universities
• Workshop nov. 2008. Repr. from pig- and cattle
  industry, pharmaceutical industry, universities
  (DTU, KU, AAU), Food/Vet administration, Drug
  administration, funding party.
• Information of interests, and discussion on basis
  of the ETPGAH SRA and Action plan.
• Three ideas

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A European Academic Centrefor Vaccine Research

• Recommendation Foundation of a European Academic
  Centre for Vaccine research and vaccine
  development including vaccines for exotic
  diseases as well as in improvement of control of
  endemic diseases. European Technology Platform
  for Global Animal Health - Vision 2015 refers to
  the limited progression in vaccines (p.23).
• Objective The purpose of the centre is to create
  a basis for the development (and production) of
  new and better vaccines in the future.
• Specification
• - To reach the long term perspective
  Design of effective and cost-efficient vaccines
  and research in next
• generation vaccines we need a closer
  determination of subjects and areas of generic
  nature (e.g.innate
• immunity, T cell immunity,
  DNA-vaccines, bioinformatics, antigen delivery ).
• - Reduced antimicrobial usage by use of
  vaccines.
• - Need for rapid tests.
• - The research centre take responsibility for a
  research training programme for young
  researchers.
• - Construction of a system addressed to
  decision-support among European authorities.
• - The essence of this multi level capacity
  building is an attempt to bring basic and applied
  research closer together
• and create mutual trust between the
  involved participants.
• European added value The overall European
  perspective is to produce one coherent value
  chain from research idea to vaccine production.
  This initiative could contribute at
  strengthening the scientific foundation of the
  Community animal health policy (ACTION PLAN for
  the implementation of the EU Animal Health
  Strategy, COM (2008) 545 final, p. 5).

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Animal health surveillance infrastructure

• Recommendation Establishment of a risk based and
  targeted health surveillance infrastructure at
  European level.
• Objective The purpose is to create a cost
  effective and data based animal health
  surveillance, which gives access to a more
  objective and comparable information concerning
  the occurrence and dissemination of animal
  infectious diseases.
• Specification
• - Access to accurate data from Europe as well as
  outside Europe.
• - A tool which can support the industry and the
  authorities in their decision-making process.
• - Secure that resources are focused on areas
  with high problem-probability.
• - The research dimension of the infrastructures
  should be connected to construction of a formal
  education and research training activity for
  young researchers.
• - This data-infrastructure can contribute to an
  updated picture of threat as regards animal
  diseases, useful for example as information in
  relation to the public media.
• - This surveillance mechanism could also be a
  suitable tool in relation to new and
  unpredictable disease related to climate changes
  (ACTION PLAN for the implementation of the EU
  Animal Health Strategy, COM (2008) 545 final, p.
  3),
• European added value Relevant end users at
  European level could be European Centre for
  Disease Prevention and Control and European Food
  Safety Authority (A new Animal Health Strategy
  for the European Union (2007-2013) where
  Prevention is better than cure, p. 23).

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Endemic diseases(Welfare minimizing diseases)

• Recommendation A European scrutiny of animal
  welfare threatening diseases in production animal
  related to endemic infectious diseases.
• Objective Secure animal health and welfare.
• Specification
• - Surveillance of endemic diseases could help
  optimizing the use of medicine, including
  antibiotics and by that also diminish the threat
  of transfer of resistance from animal to people
  (public health).
• - Endemic diseases require a multi-disciplinary
  approach including understanding of immunity
  development, pathogenesis and epidemiology of
  endemic diseases, and in addition also
  involvement of research areas like economy,
  animal ethics, and sociology.
• - A common European animal welfare and health
  concept which include hard and soft, positive and
  negative dimensions (A new Animal Health
  Strategy for the European Union (2007-2013) where
  Prevention is better than cure, p. 9).
• European added value This clarification could be
  a useful tool in future EU regulation and in
  preparation of different kinds of explicit
  standards and codes to the benefits of farmers
  and consumers.