Subject: debate in the Assembly - your expert paper

Dear Ms Feitshans, dear Ilise,

Please find enclosed a link to the Parliamentary Assembly’s press release on the report voted in the Assembly last Friday on Mr Sudarenkov’s report on

“Nanotechnology: balancing benefits and risks to public health and the environment”, which was largely based on your expert paper (accessible via the same link).
http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/NewsManager/EMB_NewsManagerView.asp?ID=8693&L=2

As you will have heard on the day – it was a great pleasure to have you present in Strasbourg, as always - , Mr Sudarenkov mentioned your contribution in the debate, thanking you for it.
For the provisional record of the proceedings, please click on the following link:
http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/Records/2012/E/1201271000E.htm

The Recommendation has been addressed to the Committee of Ministers, which now has six months to reply. In general, the Committee of Ministers consults its specialised committees first (in this case, DH-Bio).

I will not fail to keep you informed of developments.

Yours sincerely,

Tanja Kleinsorge

Tanja E. J. Kleinsorge
Head of the Secretariat
Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
tel: + 33 3 88 41 29 06
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