Fact Sheet
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Geneva, 22 January 2009

In recent decades, the rapid growth of road transport in the European Region,  while supporting economic development and integration, has harmed health and the environment through congestion, road traffic crashes, air and noise pollution, and contributing to sedentary lifestyles and emissions of greenhouse gases. The health and environmental consequences of transport affect most of the population, not just transport users.

The European Court of Justice ruled in favour of  workers in the Joint Cases Schulze-Hoff versus Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund und Stringer and Others versus Her Majesty´s Revenue and Customs. In its judgement issued on the 20th January 2009, the Court of Justice of the European Community interprets the entitlement to paid annual leave protected by the working time directive, ruling that a worker does not lose his right to paid annual leave which he has been unable to exercise because of sickness and must therefore be compensated for his annual leave not taken.

EDMA, the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association welcomes the Cervical Cancer Prevention Week of 18-24 January 2009, and supports the fight against cervical cancer, because with about 60.000 new cases and 30.000 deaths per year, it is the second most common cancer in women aged under-50 in Europe.

EuSalt is an international non-profit organisation and represents the interests of 21
salt producers located across Europe.

The vision of EuSalt is to provide authoritative information to the public at large and
other interested parties about salt and its many uses. In the nutritional discussions
we have as key value the promotion of the responsible use of salt in a well balanced
and varied diet.

Following the publication of the Commission working document on the setting of