Activities of António Fernando CORREIA DE CAMPOS related to 2009/2103(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Commission communication on Action Against Cancer: European Partnership
Amendments (8)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas one third of all cancer cases can be prevented through proper screening and early detection,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that the current funding available to fight cancer in the EU is inadequate to result in the necessary research and coordination as well as to provide decent preventive information for EU citizens;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that existing FP7 funding allocated to the fight against cancer should be used more efficiently through, for example, better coordination between the different cancer research centres in the EU;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to encourage the Member States to share all information gathered so far as well as best practices in order to reduce any future and existing overlapping of efforts funded through Community programmes;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to use the existing European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) by adding non-communicable diseases to its mandate and by using it as the headquarters for EU cancer research where all the data already collected in each Member State could be harnessed and analysed in order to provide scientists and doctors with best practices and greater knowledge of the disease;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Urges the Commission to encourage those Member States with high cancer mortality to reform their national cancer registries in order to provide the data necessary for better informed and more focused policies;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Finds the proposed structure lacking in so far as there is no clear definition of specific action objectives, such as how to achieve the integration of all Member States’ plans in the fight against cancer by 2013, and calls on the Commission to rectify this lack of focus;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that the fight against cancer requires a real and accountable action plan that sets clear and ambitious goals that go beyond the mere collection of existent data such as the Commission currently proposes; considers also that fighting cancer is a long-term battle and believes, therefore, that the Commission should propose long-term plans instead of a Partnership that is currently foreseen to work only from 2009 to 2013 under the current proposed structure;