Council Conclusions of 30 April 1998 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies
4. 6. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 169/1 I (Information) COUNCIL COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS of 30 April 1998 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies (98/C 169/01) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community; the that as requested REAFFIRMING its resolutions of 20 December 1995 and integration of health 12 November 1996 on protection requirements into Community policiesØ(˛) and noting the is drawing up appropriate methods and Commission criteria as a basis integration of health requirements into other Community policies, and for evaluating the effects of Community policies on human health; these resolutions, the for in WELCOMES the Commission’s third annual report of 27 January 1998 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies (1996); WELCOMES also the new format consisting of a concise report and a separate working document giving a detailed overview of Community activities with a health impact; NOTES that this report concentrates on major develÜ opments in 1996, including those in food and agriÜ those developments cultural policy link between bovine connected with (in particular a possible (˛) OJ C 350, 30. 12. 1995, p. 2 and OJ C 374, 11. 12. 1996, p. 3. spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and a new variant of field of CreutzfeldtÜJakob disease research, in environmental protection, in social policy development, and in other policy areas of particular relevance to health; (nvCJD), the in NOTES the wide range of health related activities in these major areas of Community policy that are described the accompanying Commission services working document; in NOTES the factors which the Commission identifies as being key to making progress in this field, and welcomes the Commission’s intention to consider instruments to give effect to such progress and to return to these issues in its fourth report; INVITES the Commission to produce its fourth report quickly and to aim to present subsequent reports within one year after the end of the period they cover; INVITES the Commission to include sections on public health impact in its annual reports on the implementation of the previous year’s overall work programme and, as requested by its abovementioned resolutions, to its annual forward work in programme all proposals which may have an impact on health protection. the Council indicate in