- Health and Food Safety
Email: cab-kyriakides-contactec [dot] europa [dot] eu (cab-kyriakides-contact[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)
Adress: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Responsibilities
- launching Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to help improve cancer prevention and care
- exploring ways to ensure Europe has enough affordable medicines to meet its needs
- supporting the European pharmaceutical industry as an innovator and world leader
- ensuring effective implementation of EU legislation on medical devices
- supporting Member States in improving the quality and sustainability of health systems
- creating a European Health Data Space to promote health-data exchange and support research, ensuring citizens have control over their own personal data
- maximising the potential of e-health for high-quality healthcare and reducing inequalities
- ensuring full implementation of the European One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance and working towards a global agreement on antimicrobials
- improving communication on the sustainability of food products and health, especially on vaccination
- leading the new ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy for sustainable food, which will cover every step in the food chain from production to consumption
- upholding EU safety standards on food imports, developing a strategy to counter food fraud.
- ensuring enforcement of animal welfare laws, reviewing the current strategy and promoting European standards globally
- making sure Europe is equipped to prevent and fight transmittable animal diseases.
- ensuring enforcement of EU laws on food safety and animal and plant health
- leading on work to protect plant health, reduce dependency on pesticides and support low-risk and non-chemical alternatives
Mission letter
- 1 DECEMBER 2019
- Downloadελληνικά(557.36 KB - PDF)
European Parliament hearings
- 1 DECEMBER 2019
Calendar
- Stella Kyriakides
- Strasbourg, France
- Stella Kyriakides
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Biography
- 2019 - presentEuropean Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
- 2006 - 2019Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus
- 2013 - 2019Vice President of the Democratic Rally Party (DISY)
- 2012 - 2019Head of Cyprus Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
- 2019Vice President of the European Peoples Party (EPP) at PACE
- 2019Member of the EPP Ethics Committee
- 2018 - 2019PACE representative to the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)
- 2018Acting President of EPP at PACE
- 2017 - 2018President of PACE
- 2017 - 2019President of the National Committee on Cancer Strategy
- 2004 - 2006President of the European Breast Cancer Coalition Europa Donna
- 1979 - 2006Clinical Psychologist, Ministry of Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- 1977 - 1978MED in Maladjustment, University of Manchester, UK
- 1974 - 1977BA in Psychology, University of Reading, UK