Translation of "risque de maladie " (French → English) :

"- any new product of animal origin intended for human consumption whose placing on the market in a Member State is authorised after the date provided for in Article 20 may not be the subject of trade or importation until a decision has been taken in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 15 after evaluation, if appropriate in the light of the opinion of the Scientific Veterinary Committee set up by Decision 81/651/EEC, of the real risk of the spread of serious transmissible diseases which could result from movement of the product, not only for the species from which the product originates but also for other species which could c ...[+++]arry the disease, become a focus of disease or a risk to human health,";

AF. whereas the use of stem cells may become established as a new method for treating diseases and injuries; whereas the aim of the therapy is to develop differentiated cells or tissues to be transplanted into patients suffering from conditions such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, coronary heart disease, leukaemia, strokes, spinal injuries or damaged cartilage, for which there are today no adequate treatments; whereas, however, the necessary measures must be taken in order to avoid the dangers and risks associated with possible stem cell therapies,

20. Stresses that predictive tests which merely point to the risk of a disease occurring only later in life should not be used at the prenatal stage, at least in principle, since, on the one hand, it is not possible in such cases to predict that a disease will ever strike, and, secondly, it is perfectly conceivable, given advances in medical science, that diseases which are currently untreatable or difficult to treat could be treated effectively by the time when they might affect the future child;

(6) Whereas the level of risk of propagating or introducing the disease from live cattle to unaffected animal populations is considered to be considerable; whereas additional measures proposed by Portugal to address the risk of exposing humans and animals to infected material are considered to be adequate; whereas account should be taken of the effective implementation and assessment of effective enforcement of those measures; whereas, therefore, the prohibition on the dispatch of bovine products can be limited in time, provided that a risk assessment conducted on the basis of the findings of a mission of the Food and Veterinary Offic ...[+++]e, taking into account the evolution of the disease, demonstrates that appropriate measures have been taken to manage any risk, and that the relevant Community and national measures are complied with and effectively enforced; whereas the period foreseen for the prohibition on the export of meat and certain other products could be reduced in the event of a favourable outcome of such risk assessment;

4. The decisions provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 must be taken on the basis of evaluation and, if appropriate, the opinion of the Scientific Veterinary Committee, of the real risk of the spread of serious transmissible diseases or of diseases transmissible to man which could result from movement of the product, not only for the species from which the product originates but also for other species which could carry the disease or become a focus of disease or a risk to public health.

- any new product of animal origin whose placing on the market in a Member State is authorized after the date provided for in Article 20 may not be the subject of trade or importation until a decision has been taken in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 15 after evaluation and, if appropriate, the opinion of the Scientific Veterinary Committee set up by Decision 81/651/EEC (9), of the real risk of the spread of serious transmissible diseases which could result from movement of the product, not only for the species from which the product originates but also for other species which could carry the disease, become a focus of dis ...[+++]ease or a risk to human health,