BSPC urges to maintain “health” within the EUSBSR Action Plan

As a follow-up to the Standing Committee meeting in Brussels, the current BSPC Chairman, Ms Sylvia Bretschneider, has informed Commission President Juncker and the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Ms Corina Cretu, about the BSPC’s serious concerns over initial ideas by the Commission’s DG REGIO to strike “health” out of the Action Plan of a revised EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The BSPC has identified health policy as its main priority in its Work Program 2014/2015 and will focus this year’s annual conference in Rostock-Warnemünde on 30 August – 1 September on this field. DG REGIO’s proposals of adapting the Action Plan of the Strategy was also discussed at the January meeting of the Standing Committee in Brussels, where the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, Mr Vytenis Andriukaitis, was also present.