16/06/2010

The European Commission’s DG-SANCO High Level Group on Nutrition and Physical Activity met for the ninth time today in Madrid. The meeting was opened by Roberto Sabrido, the President of AESAN.

This group was set up by the Commission due to the rise in obesity and chronic illnesses in developed countries, which awakened public authorities to the need for an action plan. In this context, European Ministers, together with the World Health Organisation, signed the “European Charter on Counteracting Obesity” in 2006. One of its major initiatives was the creation of the High Level Group.

The agenda for this meeting, which was also attended by the Executive Director of AESAN, Ana Troncoso, included issues such as anti-obesity initiatives in Spain, within the framework of the NAOS Strategy, the reformulation of products, and the Spanish initiative for “reducing salt intake for better health”.

Workshop program ( Pdf, 14.6 Kb )