Health warnings will be revised, and attention will be paid not only to cancer, but also to heart disease and the problem of the addictive nature of smoking. In addition, as an effort to limit the misleading description of some tobacco products, Member States will be asked to authorise and regulate the use of terms such as light or mild . To explore best practice in different areas of health systems the Commission has financed a number of projects on the safety, efficacy and effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion, prevention, diagnosis and treatment. It has an important role to play in decision-making about priorities to ensure that available resources are well spent. Guidelines for setting specific concentration limits for carcinogens describes the EU classification system for carcinogens.
Orphans are medicinal products associated with rare diseases.
It is frequently not economic for the pharmaceutical industry to research such products. But the EU is of the opinion that patients with rare conditions are entitled to the same quality of treatment as other patients, and so it tries to promote research in these areas.