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Public Health

Board of Member States

The Board of Member States, as laid out in the European Commission implementing decision, was set up on 5 February 2014.

The main tasks of the Board are:

  • Approval of Network proposals and healthcare providers' membership applications
  • Approval of healthcare providers wishing to join an existing Network
  • Termination of a Network (evaluation)
  • Decision on loss of membership

Functioning of the Board

  • Rules of procedure governing the board
  • Members represent EU countries and EEA (Maximum two representatives per country)
  • The current co-chairs of the Board of Member States are Austria (Prof. Till Voigtländer) and the Commission (Dr. Andrzej Rys, Director of DG SANTE Directorate B)

Meetings and key documents

EU National Strategies

A number of EU countries have clear policies and criteria for managing rare, low prevalence or complex diseases, others are currently in the process of deciding on their approach, and how this approach could be linked to the ERNs.

The information below outlines the national criteria or systems used to approve Centres of Expertise, and other possible highly specialised services. These national strategies should help to promote ERNs at national level, and to facilitate the exchange of best practices among EU countries.

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Austria

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Italy

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Belgium

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Latvia

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Bulgaria

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Lithuania

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Croatia

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Luxembourg

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Cyprus

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Malta

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Czechia

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Netherlands

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Denmark

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Poland

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Estonia

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Portugal

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Finland

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Romania

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France

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Slovakia

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Germany

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Slovenia

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Greece

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Spain

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Hungary

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Sweden

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Ireland

 

EEA countries

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Norway

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Liechtenstein

Other countries