43RD GENERAL SESSION OF THE EuFMD
ROME 17-18 APRIL 2019
Item 8. Proposed updating to the four-year Strategic Plan (2019-22) Document provided: Summary paper Presentation: Appendix 13 New Strategy: Appendix 14
For Decision of the 43rd General Session of the EuFMD 1. The endorsement of the proposed Strategic Plan (“HOLD-FAST”), with any modifications as recommended b the Session; 2. The endorsement of the proposed arrangements relating to co-ordination with GF-TADS; 3. To take note of the proposal, to be made under a separate Item at the Session, of the revised Terms of Reference for the EuFMD Special Committee, which have the purpose of increasing the technical support to the Executive and Secretariat, in relation to the extended coverage of the strategy to include similar TADSs to FMD; 4. The proposal for securing financial resources to support the Strategy, recognising the needs to 1) ensure an adequate financing of the activities in order to maintain preparedness for FMD and essential risk reduction actions in the European neighbourhood, 2) commit the human resources in the Secretariat in support of the Strategy, and 3) leverage additional involvement and support of member states and other parties and partners to achieve a greater impact from the efforts funded through EuFMD. The Executive Secretary introduced the item and outlined the new Strategic Plan “HOLD-FAST” (Appendix 13, 14). The HOLD-FAST plan had been developed in response to requests from the Officers of the Commission for a strategy that would respond to the issues raised at the OIE Regional Conference for Europe (Tbilisi, September 2018) of the need to leverage the EuFMD expertise to support preparedness for other TADS in the European region. The new strategy, recognizing the impact and risk of FMD, maintains a focus upon FMD risk reduction, but extends the scope of the preparedness and risk reduction activities to similar TADS which pose an immediate threat to the member states (hereafter FAST is used for FMD and similar TADs). The strategy will utilize the successful EuFMD training platform to cover the specificities of other TADS, and implement existing generic tools (spread modelling, simulation exercise support, risk-based surveillance) to improve preparedness for the additional threats. In the neighbourhood, early warning of FAST diseases should be greatly enhanced by multi-pathogen surveillance programmes in high risk hot-spots, and through support to greater networking between European and neighbourhood experts and reference centers. At global level, the EuFMD will continue to underpin the OIE and FAO (GF-TADS) Global Strategy, using its expertise in delivery of online training programmes, and it is expected that these will catalyse development of training on PPR and other TADS by GF-TADS partners. Given the extension of activities beyond FMD, he emphasized the risks that had been considered important and that had to be addressed to ensure the implementation of an effective and well-coordinated programme with the increasing number of partners that would be involved. Closer co-ordination with GF-TADS Europe and EFSA will be needed, and a wider range of expertise (on multiple TADS) required in the expert groups called upon to provide specific guidance. To this end, a new Special Committee on Surveillance and Applied Research (SCSAR) is being proposed at the 43rd General Session. The Executive Committee will also require greater input from the Standing Technical Committee (STC) on issues of prioritization, given the dynamic disease landscape. Dr Sumption outlined how the operational risks would be addressed, as well as the financing of the programme. He provided details on the funding identified as necessary for the new elements of the programme, including major new items such as the diagnostic bank. The support of the EC in this agreement would be vital, and the new programme had been calculated as requiring 4m€ per annum of which 1m€ would be from member states
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