Call for expressions of interest in membership of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Date: 2013-02-22
Institutions: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Subjects: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, invitation to tender, scientific committee (EU)








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22.2.2013   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 51/15





Call for expressions of interest in membership of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
2013/C 51/09
This call is addressed to scientists who wish to be considered for membership of the EMCDDA Scientific Committee.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), based in Lisbon, Portugal, was established to provide the European Union and its Member States with ‘factual, objective, reliable and comparable information at European level concerning drugs and drug addiction and their consequences’ (1). For additional information on the EMCDDA, please see:
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu

EMCDDA Scientific Committee

The EMCDDA Scientific Committee is set up by Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1920/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (1).
The task of the Scientific Committee is to assist the Management Board and the Director of the EMCDDA by delivering an opinion on any scientific matter concerning the Centre's activity which the Management Board or the Director may submit to it.
In addition, the risk assessment of new psychoactive substances is held under the auspices of the Scientific Committee, in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of Council Decision 2005/387/JHA of 10 May 2005 on the information exchange, risk-assessment and control of new psychoactive substances (2).
The Scientific Committee shall consist of at most 15 well-known scientists appointed by the Management Board in view of their scientific excellence and their independence. The members of the Scientific Committee shall be appointed in a personal capacity and shall give their opinions completely independently of the Member States and the European Union institutions.
They shall cover the most relevant scientific fields linked to the problems of drugs and drug addiction:






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basic biological, neurobiological and behavioural research (including aetiological and addictive behaviour research),










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population-based research and epidemiology (including site surveys and ethnographic studies),










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demand reduction (including prevention, treatment, harm reduction and reintegration),










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supply, supply reduction and crime,










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drug policy (including laws, economic issues and strategies).




Candidates appointed as members of the Scientific Committee will be requested to declare possible competing interests and sign a declaration of independence and commitment to the activities of the Scientific Committee of the EMCDDA.
Further information and application forms are available in English from the EMCDDA website: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/calls/2013/sc. Applications shall be submitted via e-mail to: scicom.call2013@emcdda.europa.eu or by registered post to the address below. Forms for paper applications are also available by post from the same address:





EMCDDA




Attn: Scientific Committee selection




Cais do Sodré




1249-289 Lisboa




PORTUGAL





Closing date

The closing date for submission of applications is 15 April 2013 at 17.00, Lisbon time (date and hour of postmark, or e-mail). The EMCDDA reserves the right to disregard any expressions of interest sent after that date.


(1)  OJ L 376, 27.12.2006, p. 1. See: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.Content&nNodeID=382&sLanguageISO=EN

(2)  OJ L 127, 20.5.2005, p. 32.