Staff Working Document on a Strategic Agenda for Medical Ionising Radiation Applications (SAMIRA)

Summary:

Staff Working Document published by the European Commission on 5 February 2021, setting out the SAMIRA Action Plan – the Strategic Agenda for Medical Ionising Radiation Applications.

Further information:

The SAMIRA Action Plan is for security of radioisotope supply, quality and safety, and technological development and innovation. The activities included in the SAMIRA Action Plan serve one common objective: to ensure that EU citizens have access to high quality radiological and nuclear technologies in medicine, at the highest safety standards.

This plan responds to a call for action from the Council of the European Union in the priority areas of securing the supply of medical radioisotopes, improving radiation quality and safety in medicine and facilitating innovation and the technological development of medical ionising radiation applications. It is closely linked, and intended as a contribution, to the main objectives of the Commission's Europe's Beating Cancer Plan.

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European Commission: Press Release, 05/02/2021: SAMIRA Action Plan: Radiological and nuclear technology in support of Europe's Beating Cancer Plan https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_265

European Commission: Questions and Answers: SAMIRA Action Plan (5 February 2021) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_21_266

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