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Dec 1 '16
The Audiovisual Media Services Directive offers a once in a decade opportunity to protect children from commercial communications on alcohol and unhealthy foods.
Experts from a wide range of backgrounds discuss the effects of advertising on children’s behaviours, tools to reduce child exposure to commercial communications for unhealthy food and alcohol and the (in)effectiveness of self-regulatory schemes.
Program
Reducing child exposure to alcohol and unhealthy food marketing: why & how?
- Gauden Galea, Director of Division on Noncommunicable Diseases, WHO Regional Office for Europe
- João Breda, Programme Manager Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, WHO Regional Office for Europe – video message
Alcohol advertising content in traditional and digital media
- Dr. Jo Cranwell, Assistant Professor in Public Health, University of Bath
Does self-regulation work? The case of television food advertisement to children in Germany
- Stefanie Landwehr, University of Bonn
Views from DG SANTE
- John Ryan, Director, European Commission
Reactions from the Panel and Debate
- Dr. Erich Koch, Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau (SVLFG) (healthcare payer), as well as representatives of paediatricians, health organisations and more
- Debate with floor.
Venue
European Parliament, Brussels
Room József Antall 4Q2
General queries: Marleen Kestens, mkestens@ehnheart.org
Communications: communications@epha.org
Event hosted by
MEP Daciana Octavia Sârbu, S & D Group
Event supported by
- European Heart Network (EHN)
- British Medical Association (BMA)
- European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare)
- European Association for the study of the liver (EASL)
- European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing (EUCAM)
- European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
- International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM)
- IOGT-NTO
- Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP)