Health: Community action programme 2008-2013

As stipulated in Article 13(1) of Commission Decision No 1350/2007/EC establishing a second programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-13), this working document of the Commission's services aims at informing the Programme Committee, the European Parliament and the Council, on the implementation of the Health Programme in year 2009 with regard to the financial mechanisms and annual work priorities as decided by the Commission.

The programme’s overall budget for the period 2008-2013 is EUR 321.5 million and the budget for 2009 amounts to EUR 48.48 million split between: 

• operational expenditure: EUR 47 million (budget line 17 03 06), increased by an amount of approximately EUR 4 million to  face the additional needs resulting from the H1N1 crisis; the final amount available under the operational budget reached EUR 52.3 million, taking also into account credits received from EFTA and candidate countries; 
• administrative expenditure of an amount of EUR 1.48 million (budget line 1701 04 02)

Since 2005, technical, scientific and administrative assistance is provided by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC). In 2009, the Agency has managed an amount of EUR 39.5 million while Commission's services have managed the remainder, EUR 12.8 million.

Health priorities for 2009 were set by the Commission Decision 2009/58/EC of 23 adopting the Work Plan for 2009.