Stakeholders meeting(s) with DG Santé/CASoHO 

This event was organized with the aims of assessing whether Directives 2002/98/EC (on blood and blood components) and 2004/23/EC (on tissues and cells) have effectively met the objective of ensuring safety and quality, and whether any changes to the legislation are needed in the current reality.

ESHRE was invited to attend as stakeholder. 

20 September 2017 – 205 participants, 5 main topics:

• The key importance of donors: The gift of life (Carlos Calhaz-Jorge)
  
  
• Regulatory oversight of the sectors - How to ensure safety and quality?
  
  
• Availability and sufficiency - Are patients getting the blood, tissues and cells that they need?
  
  
• Legal consistency and coherence - Regulatory pathways for Substances of Human Origin
  
  
• A changing world – Technological, societal, epidemiological and international developments (Kersti Lundin)

The minutes are available here