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Open letter to the members of the Committee on Culture and Education
On 25 May 2016, the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), which includes provisions governing commercial communications for foods high in f......

Aim comments on the public consultation on excise duties applied to manufactured products
AIM recommends to increase taxation of all tobacco products which, on the other hand, should be taxed in a comparable way as appropriate......

Standardisation of Health and Social Services
The members of ESIP and AIM, social security organisations, mutuals and health insurance funds, are following with great concern increasing efforts at European level for standardisation in the field o......

Aim recommendations on ceta
While in certain areas, the European Union and its Member States would certainly benefit from the “Comprehensive and Economic Free Trade Agreement (CETA)” through......

Adaptive pathways: Why are we cautious?
In order to improve access to medicines, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently been merrily pushing towards speeding up marketing authorisation for new medicines. Several projects have been......

European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP) and Association Internationale de la mutualité (AIM)
The European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP) represents over 40 national statutory social insurance organisations (covering approximately 240 million citizens) in 15 EU Member States and Switzerland,......