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June
2016
Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB) is an informal partnership of professional healthcare regulators from within Europe working collaboratively on a range of regulatory issues. HPCB produces a regular e-newsletter which focuses on work in progress, regulatory developments in Europe, and information about their participants. Joint Action Health Workforce regularly contributes to the newsletter with the latest updates, events and news. Check on the latest issue of HPCB newspaper by clicking on read more.
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May
2016
This conference is the final event of the Italian Pilot Project on the estimation of the future needs for healthcare professionals. The project focused on pharmacist, nurses, doctors, dentists and midwives and it was coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Health (DG Health Professions and Human Resources of the National Health Service) as part of the Joint Action Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting. The aim of the conference is to debate on the future challenges of health workforce planning in Italy, starting with the pilot project results and the experiences developed during the Joint Action. The Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin will open the Conference. Read more about the event.
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May
2016
After the Joint Action conference on Planning & Educating Health Workforce without borders in Varna, we are happy to present to you short conference summary video. Video brings interesting interviews as well as shots of our conference participants. We would like to express our gratitude to Medical University of Varna for making this video possible […]
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March
2016
Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB) is an informal partnership of professional healthcare regulators from within Europe working collaboratively on a range of regulatory issues. HPCB produces a regular e-newsletter which focuses on work in progress, regulatory developments in Europe, and information about their participants. Joint Action Health Workforce regularly contributes to the newsletter with the latest updates, events and news. Check on the latest issue of HPCB newspaper by clicking on read more
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March
2016
The Expert Group of the Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth is inviting contributions to build the evidence base; strengthen policy dialogue across multiple sectors; and catalyze actions to guide the creation of new jobs and investment in health and social sector employment. For more information about guidance and submission of contributions click on read more.
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March
2016
In the context of the EU’s Health Programme 2014-2020, the Commission has adopted the Work Programme for 2016. The funding opportunities include projects and service contracts, as well as Joint Actions planned with national authorities. The work plan offers support for the health workforce planning and forecasting expert network based on the Joint Action draft recommendations to sustain cooperation. The call for tender with the detailed technical specifications will be launched later this year. The full EU Health Programme for 2016 is available by clicking on read more.
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March
2016
Conference on Planning and Educating Health Workforce without borders took place on February 18-19 in Varna, Bulgaria. Medical University of Varna as one of the main organizing partner has issued numerous press releases and news related to the event. You may access them via the links by clicking on read more.
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February
2016
IFMSA Regional Director for Europe and Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues were present as speakers covering the perspective of medical students worldwide. Read more about their short summing up of the conference by clicking here.
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February
2016
On behalf of Joint Action Health Workforce we are happy to invite you to evaluate the third Joint Action conference that took place in Varna, Bulgaria on Thursday and Friday February 18 & 19. The evaluation survey as well as all the presentations of our speakers are available by clicking here.
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November
2015
Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB) is an informal partnership of professional healthcare regulators from within Europe working collaboratively on a range of regulatory issues. HPCB produces a regular e-newsletter which focuses on work in progress, regulatory developments in Europe, and information about their participants. Joint Action Health Workforce regularly contributes to the newsletter with the latest updates, events and news. Check on the latest issue of HPCB newspaper by clicking on read more.
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October
2015
We are happy to announce that The Handbook on Planning Methodologies (WP5 deliverable) is officially out at the disposal. The document provides full range of analysis of the selected planning systems implemented in EU countires, describes a set of related good practices and presents useful insights concerning critical points of health workforce planning. Get to the full document by […]
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October
2015
The team of Work Package 7 of the Joint Action on Health Workforce organizes a worshop on the sustainability options, focusing on the Vision paper and Policy recommendations. The event will take place on November 11th 2015 in Varna, Bulgaria. For more information and agenda click here.
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June
2015
The final version of this report is now available on our Web site: here
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April
2015
Check out the pre-reading material for the WP6 workshop ! All informations available here.
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March
2015
March 5th & 6th, the Executive Board of the Joint Action HWF met in Malta, hosted by WP3 co-Leader. Some very important deliverables haven been approved under minor enhancement conditions. The first release* of the “Handbook on Planning Methodologies” across EU The “Report on terminology mapping” The “Report on the applicability of the […]
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January
2015
We wish a bright future to: Giovanni Leonardi who left the leadership of WP5; Lieve Jorens who left the leadership of WP1; Paul Giepmans who left the co-leadership of WP2. You have contributed to build this wonderful project and we shall hold a special place for you. They have been replaced by: Rossana Ugenti […]
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January
2015
The second plenary assembly of the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning & Forecasting will be hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, from March 23rd, 9.00 a.m. to March 24th, 4.20 p.m. Check here for more information.
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November
2014
The user guidelines have been produced by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) with support of a broad network of international representatives, as part of the Joint Action. They are aimed broadly at health workforce planners and forecasters in Member States (MSs) and stakeholder organisations in the European Union who would like to apply […]
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October
2014
Work Package 5 delivered a first complete draft version of this impressive collaborating work to its partners. The interested partners can find the draft handbook on the Sharepoint of the Joint Action by clicking here. Comments will be welcomed by WP5 team (euhwforcewp5@agenas.it)
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October
2014
Our programme manager was invited to share with the attendees of the European Health Forum Gastein, among which the newly designated commissioner for health and consumers policy, Dr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, the importance of planning and of upgrading the planning capacity of the Member States and Competent Authorities. The panel type of discussion was held without supporting […]
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September
2014
Our dissemination team released the information and registration form for the conference.Check our programme and register here.
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September
2014
A good amount of experts joined together with a selection of future users of the Handbook on planning methodologies in Torino held this September 18th & 19th.The three core sections of the handbook were the subject of many discussions and validation questions. The attendees have been impressed by the work proposed by the Italian team. Even […]
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August
2014
We are happy to welcome the European Federation of Salaried Doctors as new collaborating partner.More on their role & activities on http://www.fems.net.
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August
2014
Please check in the “Results” section for the full text. Following the 3rd Executive Board of the Joint Action, the following pieces of work have been approved: STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS RELEASE 2Providing an analysis of the many stakeholders of the Joint Action, their fields of interest, their types, the way to communicate, and so […]
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July
2014
July 18th, 2014 – The Joint Action has been invited to the Executive Board of the Global Health Workforce Alliance, at WHO Headquarter in Geneva.The presentation was positively received lead to many comments and questions. A support document, reviewed by the members of the Joint Action Executive Board, has been issued to support this […]
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July
2014
The Joint Action took part to the Board of the European Observatory of Medical Demography. The Observatory’s new data are available here. Our presentation is available here.
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June
2014
The Belgian Planning Commission publishes each year a full report of its activities. This report, based on final data, is a masterwork rich of informations. It also highlights the impressive stakeholders involvement in the Belgian planning process. The list of publications, available in french & dutch is to be found in the web site […]
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June
2014
Dear Participants of the 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, We are delighted to inform you that a report of the Forum is now available online. The report, developed by the Global Health Workforce Alliance with support from the World Health Organization, comprehensively describes the proceedings of the event and summarizes the key issues, innovative ideas […]
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June
2014
WP2 sent out the the Joint Action partners the following message : Dear associated partners,Dear collaborating partners,Dear knowledge brokers,Dear EU Commission and CHAFEA representatives, On behalf of Joint Action on European Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting I am happy to invite you to the second Joint Action Conference that will be held in Rome, with special support of the Italian […]
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May
2014
It is with great pleasure that WP1 has been invited by the PROMeTHEUS team for the “volume II: Book launch evening reception” this Monday 26th of May, 2014. This event, organised by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, was hosted by the Federal Public Service of Health of Belgium. The book : “Health Professional […]
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May
2014
The following documents are now available to you: All presentations proposed during the 3 days meeting in Firenze (IT) The agendas and logistic details of our next meeting in Lisboa (PT) Have a look !
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May
2014
The WHO Global Code of Practice is an important agreement between the nations. Its applicability to the EU countries is an important discussion within the Joint Action. WP4 has now revealed the agenda of its second meeting planned in Lisbon, June 16th, 2014.
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May
2014
Lisbon will know mid-june a joint event with 3 Joint Action workshops: June 16: WP4 WHO Code Workshop June 17: WP7 on sustainability (Implementation strategies) June 18: WP5 workshop on the pilot project The date and logistic details is now announced and we may advise the participants to book their trip.
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May
2014
More than 60 experts will joint us today until friday evening for this important session on the handbook of best practices on planning methodologies, with as starter today’s workshop on WP5 pilot projects, and WP7 workshop on the network of experts. Please follow the link to those events.
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April
2014
The European Commission has adopted a Communication on Effective, Accessible and Resilient Health Systems. The Communication aims to develop approaches at the European level to strengthen the effectiveness of health systems, increase the accessibility of healthcare, improve the resilience of health systems. Important to the Joint Action HWF : The focus on health workforce planning efforts to […]
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April
2014
Italian Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin formally opened the conference and described the aspirations of Italy and the opportunity for Italy to lead Europe on the important debate of ‘healthcare for the future’ with the soon approaching Italian Presidency for Europe. The national conference was fortunate to receive Matteo Renzi, Italy’s Prime Minister who delivered […]
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April
2014
On April 4th 2014, the Joint Action on European Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting participated in the Conference on “Better working conditions for better care, discussing responsible health system policy”, organized by the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME). The conference focused on both National and European experience in Quality of Care. The JA EUWHF […]
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April
2014
The Work Package 7 Team – Medical University of Varna – sent this March 28th an invitation to the more than 200 participants to the joint action experts meeting to date, to join a list of experts in order to start the experts network. Professor Kostadinova wrote: “Dear Colleague, The Joint Action […]
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March
2014
The Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning & Forecasting is invited by Health Workers for All to speak at the Belgian day of the project. Link Health Workers for All Link to Be-Cause Health The program of the day is now published. INVITATION IN FRENCH / Le groupe de travail […]
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March
2014
WP4 organized with the support of NIVEL a workshop on terminology and on mobility in Utrecht March 6th & 7th. The web page with presentations and results will be proposed step by step here. The meeting rooms made available by NIVEL were full of delegates and most discussions were productive but also spicy. The meeting reports will […]
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March
2014
One of the previous projects that helped the Joint Action to come to life, still delivers more and more material to the scientific and policy making communities.A full review of the publications is available on the project web-site, including the very last one issued 26.02.2014 in The Lancet. => http://www.rn4cast.eu/en/index.php
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February
2014
Dear participants of the Joint Action Health Workforce conference,Dear speakers,Dear panelists, thank you for your participation at the Joint Action conference. We would like to sincerely thank yet again to the speakers, contributors, panelists and all of the participants. We truly hope that you have enjoyed the time spent at this event and that […]
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February
2014
Message from the Italian team (WP5) Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, First of all thank you for your participation in our workshop in Bratislava. We have uploaded on SharePoint (here) the document140220 Planning for the Pilot study, with the corrections agreed during the meeting, which is also publicly available on the website here. Since […]
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February
2014
A great two days in Westminster On February 10 and 11, we held our WP6 workshop in the offices of the UK’s Department for Health in London. Over 30 partners were in attendance representing over 20 different organisations and covering all the Work Packages. The two days included lively discussion, training sessions and […]
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February
2014
The first plenary assembly of the Joint Action has been a success. Today, all the documents are available both on this web site (all presentations and the meeting minutes) and on the Sharepoint tool for the associated and collaborating partners (also the list of attendees and the evaluation form). The full activities of […]
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February
2014
The final agenda of the Workshop has been released today ! Attendees must be warmed that a strike in the London Subway might take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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February
2014
Tuesday January 29th, 2014 knew the first plenary assembly of the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning & Forecasting. More than 100 attendees representing most of the partners of the Joint Action could hear a full overview of the work that has been done to date, and could see both budget and workload trends. The […]
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January
2014
We welcome the Royal Tropical Institute – KIT (NL) who recently joined as collaborating partner. They will participate to Work Package 6.
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January
2014
Based on the conclusion of the workshop held in Sofia and of discussions at the Executive Board, the University of Varna, leader of the Work Package 7, proposed a final draft of the sustainability plan to the partners of WP7. You may find this final draft here. WP7 intends to bring this version, […]
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December
2013
Message from WP6 Team to WP6 Partners: Dear WP6 Partners, Thank you to all that have requested to attend our February workshops in London. We are in the process of confirming numbers and will be contacting you soon to confirm the allocation of spaces. For those who have yet to register it is not […]
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December
2013
We had the great pleasure to officialy register 8 new collaborating partners today! One national body has joined from Spain 27 General Pharmaceutical Council of Spain Two European platforms 28 European Health Professionals’ Competent Authorities (EurHeCA) 29 Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe And already 5 Italian regions 30 Italian regions […]
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December
2013
Friday December 13th – Vienna. The Executive Board (E.B.) gathered at the airport of Vienna for an intense day of work. The Executive Board pre-approved the House Style and the leaflet (Deliverable 22 and 23). After some additional formatting, these will be available within the RESULTS section). The Board focused on reviewing the following deliverables: D051 […]
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December
2013
Dear Associated partners, Dear Collaborating partners, Dear EU Commission and EAHC representatives, on behalf of Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting, we would like to thank those of you who have already registered for the meeting and encourage the rest of you to register for the event as soon as possible. The […]
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December
2013
The Belgian Vice-Prime Minister & Federal Minister of Health, Ms Laurette Onkelinx, presented her plan for 2014 and highlights the Joint Action on Health Workforce planning & forecasting among the priorities: FR: Par ailleurs, le Belgique mènera un projet européen (Joint Action) afin d’établir dans les années qui viennent des standards comparables en matière de […]
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December
2013
Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director at the Office of the Assistant Director-General Health Systems and Innovation of the World Health Organization kindly encouraged the participants to the 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health to disseminate the following information: The 83 HRH commitments which have been received and/or have been announced at the 3rd Global Forum are now live on the Global Health Workforce […]
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December
2013
The Work Package 6 organizes a workshop for its partners in London February 10th & 11th, 2014. The objectives of this workshop are: Validation of the comparison of qualitative methods in health workforce planning based on information provided by partners (related to D061 User Guidelines on how to use qualitative methodologies to estimate future […]
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December
2013
Dottore Giovanni Leonardi, Direttore Generale delle professioni sanitarie and Work Package Leader of Work Package 5, was invited by the European Network of Medical Competent Authorities (ENMCA) to give a status briefing over the Joint Action. His presentation provided the members with the last information. Giovanni warmly invited the members, both as ENMCA and individually, to join the […]
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December
2013
Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, The italian team is happy to inform you that, in accordance with the JA project plan, we’ve delivered the D.051 Release 1 Minimum planning data requirements (third and final draft) last Saturday, 30th November. The document was sent to all the WP Leaders in order to prepare the discussion for […]
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November
2013
We are happy to register a new partner. The Health and Care Professions Council of our work (HCPC) joined recently the list of partners and will participate to our Joint Action programme. We are happy to enlarge our list of partnerships, massive collection of input for our documents, and a wide distribution of our work are key elements for […]
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November
2013
The Italian team moved the document to a version 0.2 which has been submitted to the WP5 partners for review. This second draft has been integrated, developed and controlled by the translators. The reviewers were asked to analyze this second draft by trying to answer the following questions: Do you believe that the key planning […]
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October
2013
The Italian Team has issued a first draft of Deliverable 051 VERSION DOC VERSION PDF All WP5 partners and other attendees of the meeting in Milano are invited to further participate in the building of the final deliverable. Please read the INSTRUCTIONS FOR REVIEW.
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October
2013
The Joint Action is progressing fast. A huge amount of news available in our sixth issue of the newsletter.
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October
2013
The Joint Action and the EU Commission have been partly attending the meeting of workgroup 3 of the Sectoral social dialogue meeting for the hospital sector. Our partner HOSPEEM & EPSU would like to increase they participation to our project, emphasizing the importance of Health Workforce for the sustainability of the Healthcare sector. Our presentation is […]
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October
2013
WP4 sent out a survey to its associated partners. Zoltan Aszalos, the work package leader, addresses the partners via a very smart youtube video. Survey documents: Background informations Survey template
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September
2013
The first Joint Action Executive Board took place in Leuven, Belgium, Friday September 27th. The Executive Board is the main executive body of the Joint Action and provides a forum for discussion and decision making. The main purpose of the Executive Board will be to drive the Joint Action forward and approve the outcomes and […]
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September
2013
Almost 50 participants gathered in Milano to define the minimal data set!The target has been met by the Italian Team.
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September
2013
WP7 Kick-off and workshop was a success! The summary conclusions of the workshop are already available on this website (section events)
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September
2013
The Joint Action has been resquested to participate, as member of a panel and as overall attendee, to the Consultation on Human Resources for Health for high income countries preparing the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for health. During the panel discussion, and even though this came very early within the Joint Action, an […]
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June
2013
Very successful first Joint Action workshop in Budapest, organized by the Semmelweis University (WP4 leaders) around the data terminology and the mobility data.This fruitful meeting is reported on this site – follow the link
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May
2013
WP5 is started!Many happy professional faces showed up in Rome for the kick-off of WP5 followed by workshop sessions. Kicking the ball!
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The Joint Action on European Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting has received
funding from the European Union in the framework of the Public Health Programme.
Joint Action Management Team: euhwforce@health.belgium.be
Responsible:
Eng. MSc. Michel Van Hoegaerden on behalf
of the belgian FPS Public Health, Food Chain Safety & Environment