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1 Rare Diseases Working Group Tartu, Estonia, September 2014

2 Rare diseases WG Established in /13: Survey on the awareness of RD in Europe 2014: PosiGon Paper of the Rare Diseaseas working group of the European FederaGon of Internal Medicine

3 Rare diseases WG 2014: EFIM appointed as one of the 4 representagve of the professional organisagons and sciengfic socieges in Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission DIRECTORATE GENERAL HEALTH AND CONSUMERS

4 Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission InsGtuted by the Commission Decision 2013/C 219/04 of 30 July 2013 Replace the EUCERD

5 Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission Mission of the group: assist the Commission in the drawing up of legal instruments and policy documents, including guidelines and recommendagons; advise the Commission in the implementagon of Union acgons and suggest improvements to the measures taken; advise the Commission in the monitoring, evaluagon and disseminagon of the results of measures taken at Union and nagonal level; advise the Commission on internagonal cooperagon; provide an overview on Union and nagonal policies; foster exchanges of relevant experience, policies and pracgces between the Member States and the various parges involved.

6 Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission ComposiGon of the group Member States' competent authoriges (28) + Icelandic Ministry of Welfare, State Diagnositc and Councelling Centre; Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services PaGents organisagons in the field of rare diseases (4) EURORDIS European OrganisaGon for Rare Disease; The Network of European FederaGons of rare diseases; EGAN European GeneGc Alliances Network; The Network of NaGonal Alliances of rare disease pagents organisagons European associagons of producers of products or service providers relevant for pagents affected by rare diseases (4) European AssociaGon for Bioindustries EuropaBio; European BiopharmaceuGcal Enterprises; The European DiagnosGc Manufacturers AssociaGon; The European Social Insurance Plaaorm European professional associagons or sciengfic socieges acgng in the field of rare diseases (4) The European Federa9on of Internal Medicine; European Society of Human GeneGcs; European Hematology AssociaGon; European Academy of Paediatrics individual experts (4) Domenica Taruscio (I); Katharine Bushby (UK); Milan Macek (CZ); Ségolène Aymé (FR)

7 Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission AcGviGes EFIM is the contact point for Professional SocieGes The European FederaGon of Internal Medicine European Society of Human GeneGcs European Hematology AssociaGon European Academy of Paediatrics

8 Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases of the EU Commission AcGviGes European Reference networks status of the implementagon of the Art 12 of the DirecGve 2011/24/EU on pagents rights in cross- border healthcare Rare diseases codificagon New Joint AcGon on rare diseases Rare diseases registries Research infrastructures in the field of RD research

9 Rare Diseases Working Group

10 Rare Diseases Working Group

11 Proposed ac9vi9es for the EFIM Rare Disease WG Proposed acgviges EU survey on how internists deal with rare diseases EU School for rare diseases Childhood to Adulthood transigon project (with EAP)

12 Proposed ac9vi9es for the EFIM Rare Disease WG Proposed acgviges

13 Rare Diseases Working Group Thank you

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