Translation of "infectious diseases committee " (English → French) :

[32] Dr. James M. Hughes, Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, US CDC, CDC’s Response to Infectious Disease Threats Including Preparedness Planning for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Brief to the Committee, 22 October 2003, p. 7.

Under pressure from the interim FMD committee, legislation in the field of FMD was changed to some extent, but still not in compliance with the recommendations of the FAO or the OIE – the International Office for infectious animal diseases.

9. Calls on the Commission to earmark sufficient resources to combat infectious animal diseases, such as classic swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), on the basis of the conclusions of the European Parliament's temporary committee on foot-and-mouth disease, advocating a foot-and-mouth disease policy in which vaccination plays a major role; in this context adequate resources should swiftly be earmarked for further research into marker vaccines and discriminatory tests, for keeping sufficient vaccines in stock and for cooperat ...[+++]ion between laboratories;

Whereas that Directive recognises the right of each Member State to prohibit the introduction of bovine animals and swine into its territory from a Member State in which there has been an outbreak of an epizootic disease ; whereas, depending on the nature and character of that epizootic disease, such prohibition must either be restricted to bovine animals and swine coming from part of the territory of the exporting country or may extend to the whole of that territory ; whereas, in the event of the outbreak of contagious or infectious disease on the territory of a Member State, appropriate measures must quickly be taken to combat such d ...[+++]isease ; whereas the dangers of such diseases and the protective measures required should be assessed in the same way throughout the Community ; whereas a Community procedure must be instituted for this purpose within the Standing Veterinary Committee set up by the Council Decision of 15 October 19684 under which any measures taken by a Member State may be examined and, where necessary, amended or repealed, in close co-operation between the Member States and the Commission; 1 OJ No 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. 2 OJ No 192, 27.10.1966, p. 3294/66. 3 OJ No L 157, 18.7.1970, p. 40. 4 OJ No L 255, 18.10.1968, p. 23.