European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction
| European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction EMCDDA |
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 EMCDDA logo |
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.JPG) EMCDDA building in Lisbon |
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| English name | European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) |
| French name | Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxicomanies |
| Portuguese name | Observatório Europeu da Droga e da Toxicodependência |
| Organization type |
Agency of the European Union
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| status | Establishment of European public law with its own legal personality |
| Seat of the organs |
Lisbon , Portugal
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| Chair |
 Alexis Goosdeel
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| founding |
February 8, 1993 |
| www.emcdda.europa.eu | |
The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction ( EMCDDA ; English E uropean M onitoring C entre for D rugs and D rug A ddiction, EMCDDA ) is an agency of the European Union based in the Portuguese capital Lisbon . It publishes an annual report on the state of the drug problem in Europe.
assignment
aims
The aim of the European Council in creating the EMCDDA was "to set up an observatory which would provide objective, reliable and comparable information that would give the Community and its Member States an overview of the phenomenon of drugs and drug addiction and their effects" .
Legal basis
The EMCDDA was created on the basis of EEC Regulation No. 302/93 of February 8, 1993. On December 22nd, 1994 the regulation was changed again.
organization
.JPG)
The Chairman of the Management Board of the EMCDDA is João Goulão and the Vice-President is Claude Gillard. The director of the EMCDDA is Wolfgang Götz .
The EMCDDA comprises the following sub-services:
- Director's Office
- Actions, best practices and scientific partners
- Reduction in supply and new trends
- Patterns, Impact, and Data Management
- Policy, evaluation and content coordination
- Reitox and international cooperation
- communication
- Information-and communicationtechnologies
- administration
The national partner of the EMCDDA in Germany is the German Reference Center for the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (DBDD)
Web links
- Official website of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction
- EMCDDA on the official website of the European Union (multilingual)
- Task description of the EMCDDA (multilingual)
- Entry of the EMCDDA in the IDEA (Official Directory of the EU) (multilingual)
- Official website of the German reference point for the EMCDDA
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regulation (EEC) No. 302/93 of the Council of February 8, 1993 on the creation of a European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction , accessed on June 2, 2013
- ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 3294/94 of the Council of December 22, 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No. 302/93 on the creation of a European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction , accessed on June 2, 2013
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