JOINT ACTION ON BEST PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION (NUTRITION) CHAFEA INFO DAY 24 June 2019, Luxembourg C4 Unit - Health Determinants and International Relations DG SANTE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Joint Action on implementation of best practices high level of overweight and obesity high morbidity and mortality NCDs Steering Group on Promotion and Prevention • Nutrition and physical activity - priority area • 12 best practices Third Health Programme (2014-2020 ): € 6 million • (60% - 80%; € 10M or 7,5M)
JA on implementation of best practices Scope: to implement the transfer of best practices agreed for inter- country transfer by the Steering Group on Promotion and Prevention (SGPP). • Activities : • support for a monitoring system for reformulation initiatives (FR - based on the WP 5 model of the Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity) • public procurement of food for health (SI - based on the work of the MT Presidency and JRC) • framing of marketing aimed at children of foods and beverages high in fats, sugars or salt (IE - based on the revised AVMSD and the JRC marketing toolkit, WHO and UNICEF work)
• WP - Monitoring of reformulation • By now • Salt, sat fat, sugars: • HLG voluntary documents (EU Framework on selected nutrients, Added Sugar Annex, etc) • Political support: Council conclusions (GR, NL, MT, BG) • National reformulation plans • JANPA – WP5 collecting methodology • Best practices in the Member States (e.g. France)
• WP - Monitoring of reformulation • Ongoing work on salt, sat fat, sugars: • Pilot Reformulation Study monitoring, snapshot I for 16 MSs AT,BE,BG,DK,EE,FI,FR,GR,HU,IT,LT,MT,PT,RO,SI,UK support to public health authorities to implement reformulation initiatives via twinning meetings and workshops mapping the national reformulation initiatives in the EU support to set up institutional networks to implement reformulation estimating the public health impact of food reformulation
• WP - Monitoring of reformulation • Next: JA on Implementation of Best Practices • Built on, complement /extend national and EU activities • Monitoring: snapshot I and II
• WP - public procurement of food • - Translate national healthy school food standards into public procurement specifications • - Extension to work to other public health setting as appropriate • I. Best practice in Member States (Slovenia) • II. EC/JRC Malta report (2017) • Next: JA on Implementation of Best Practices • adopt/revise national procurement policies, template contracts, web tools, etc
• WP - on framing marketing/advertising of HFSS food • AVMSD transposition • I. Best practices in the Member States (e.g. Ireland) • II. EC/JRC EU Marketing Toolkit (2019) • Study on children’s exposure to advertising/marketing of HFSS food (ongoing) • Next: JA on Implementation of Best Practices: adapt and adopt a (voluntary) code, support the transposition
• Potential stakeholders • WHO, UNICEF, OECD, JRC • EFSA - research platform • Joint Programming Initiative HDHL • Research focused on interplay between food, physical activity and health • STOP project - best approaches to the prevention and treatment of obesity • EIT Health/EIT Food - pan-European consortium that focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation in healthy living and active ageing/the food sector • EAT Foundation - reform global food system, to feed population with healthy food from a healthy planet • DG ENVIRONMENT - public procurement (green procurement) 9
• Questions? • attila.balogh@ec.europa.eu 10
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