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Continued and increased support for vaccinations in developing nations Declaration of the European Parliament of 24 May 2012 on continued and increased support for vaccinations in developing nations
Date: 2012-05-24
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: developing countries, infant mortality, vaccination








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13.9.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


CE 264/96





Thursday 24 May 2012Continued and increased support for vaccinations in developing nations
P7_TA(2012)0230
Declaration of the European Parliament of 24 May 2012 on continued and increased support for vaccinations in developing nations
2013/C 264 E/17

The European Parliament,






—


having regard to Rule 123 of its Rules of Procedure,










A.


whereas vaccine-preventable diseases, including hepatitis, measles, pneumococcal disease, rotavirus diarrhoea, polio and yellow fever, constitute a major cause of childhood deaths in the developing world;










B.


whereas disease prevalence is a barrier to achieving sustainable socio-economic development;










C.


whereas vaccine-preventable diseases are known to affect women and men differently;










D.


whereas women make up half the global population, and whereas development and health cannot be achieved if their voices are ignored;










E.


whereas basic health care – hospitals, doctors, nurses, medical equipment and so on – is vitally important and should not be neglected;










F.


whereas the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) has been recognised as a highly efficient means by which to achieve development and humanitarian objectives;










G.


whereas, in the past decade, GAVI has made great progress in saving lives and expanding immunisation coverage in the world’s poorest countries, and whereas, as a result, 288 million more children have been immunised and more than five million future deaths prevented;










H.


whereas, despite these advances, 1,7 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases every year;










1.


Congratulates the Commission on the support it has given to the GAVI via the Development Cooperation Instrument and the European Development Fund between 2003 and 2012;










2.


Urges the Commission to make a continued commitment to reducing the number of vaccine-preventable deaths in its future external actions;










3.


Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories (1), to the parliaments of the Member States.






(1)  The list of signatories is published in Annex 1 to the Minutes of 24 May 2012 (P7_PV(2012)05-24(ANN1)).
Case C-366/11: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 May 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Environment — Directive 2000/60/EC — European Union action in the field of water policy — River basin management plans — Publication and notification to the Commission — Lack — Public information and consultation concerning the draft management plans — Lack)
Date: 2012-05-24
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: national implementing measure, public consultation, water management, watercourse








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7.7.2012   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 200/5





Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 May 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of Belgium
(Case C-366/11) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2000/60/EC - European Union action in the field of water policy - River basin management plans - Publication and notification to the Commission - Lack - Public information and consultation concerning the draft management plans - Lack)
2012/C 200/08
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: I. Hadjiyiannis and A. Marghelis, Agents)

Defendant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: T. Materne and J.-C. Halleux, Agents)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Failure to adopt, within the prescribed periods, the provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ 2000 L 327, p. 1) — Failure to prepare river basin management plans within the meaning of Article 13(2), (3) and (6) and Article 15(1) of the Directive — Public information and consultation procedure concerning the drafts of those plans — Lack

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Declares that, by not having prepared, within the prescribed period, all the river basin management plans, both for river basin districts lying entirely within its territory and for international river basin districts, and by not having communicated to the European Commission a copy of those plans, within the prescribed period, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 13(2), (3) and (6) and Article 15(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and, furthermore, that by not having commenced, within the prescribed period, all the public information and consultation procedures concerning the draft river basin management plans, the Kingdom of Belgium has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14(1)(c) of that directive;










2.


Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.






(1)  OJ C 298, 8.10.2011.