Joint Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: State of play of the 5 year action plan Brussels

The European Commission held a one-day "Joint Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: State of Play of the 5-year action plan" on Wednesday 11 December 2013 in Brussels.

The objective was to make a mid-term review of the Commission's action plan against the rising threats from antimicrobial resistance and discussions will focus on the challenges ahead and the drivers and possible limitations of the envisaged measures to reduce the rising threat of AMR.

Representatives from Member States, International Organisations, European stakeholders associations and third countries were invited.

The European Parliament's adoption in 2012 of the "Report on the Microbial Challenge – Rising threats from Antimicrobial Resistance" called on the Commission to publish an interim report on the actions taken so far and the conclusions of the conference will be included in this interim report to be published by the European Commission early in 2014.

• Agenda

Contributions

State of play - Commission Action Plan to Combat the rising threat from Antimicrobial Resistance: activities in the human sector

John F Ryan

Acting Director Public Health - DG Health and Consumers - European Commission

State of play - Action Plan to combat the rising threat from Antimicrobial Resistance: activities in the veterinary sector

Bernard Van Goethem

Director Veterinary and International Affairs - DG Health and Consumers - European Commission

The European Innovation Partnership „Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability“

Christiane Kirketerp de Viron

Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development

State of play - Commission Action plan: Research

Line Matthiessen

Head of Unit - Directorate-General for Research and Innovation - European Commission

International dimension (tripartite WHO, OIE, FAO) - WHO/Europe Strategic Action Plan on Antibiotic Resistance

Danilo Lo Fo Wong

Senior Adviser, World Health Organisation (WHO)

International dimension (tripartite WHO, OIE, FAO) - Positions and OIE activities on Antimicrobial Resistance

Elisabeth Erlacher–Vindel

Acting Head - Scientific and Technical Departement World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

International dimension (tripartite WHO, OIE, FAO): FAO and Tripartite Antimicrobial Resistance Activities

Patrick Otto

Animal Health Officer, Veterinary Public Health - Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Panel discussion: Challenges in Research and Risk Assessment field

Ernesto Liebana Criado

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) – European Commission

David Mackay

Head of Veterinary Medicines Division - European Medicines Agency (EMA) - European Commission

Johan Giesecke

Chief Scientist - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) - European Commission

Boudewijn Catry

Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP) Healthcare-associated infections & Antimicrobial resistance (Belgium)

Annette Cleveland Nielsen

Chief Veterinary Advisor - Danish Veterinary and Food Administration

Lucie Pokludova

Assessor, Veterinary Medicinal Agency (Czech Republic )

Annemarie Käsbohrer

Head of Unit Epidemiology and Zoonoses - Federal Inst. Risk Assessment (Germany)

Panel discussion: Challenges for Risk Managers

Charles Martins Ferreira

Ministry of Agriculture (France)

Consuelo Rubio Montejano

Head Veterinary Medicines Department - Spanish Medecine Agency (Spain)

Annette Cleveland

Chief Advisor, Animal Welfare and Veterinary Medicine - Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (Denmark)

Panel Discussion: Challenge for stakeholders

Jan Dahl

Copa Cocega

Declan O'Brien

IFAH-Europe - International Federation for Animal Health Europe