{"id":17613,"date":"2024-07-28T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=17613"},"modified":"2024-10-05T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T14:03:26","slug":"emcdda-becomes-euda-more-powers-and-cooperation-with-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/07\/emcdda-becomes-euda-more-powers-and-cooperation-with-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"EMCDDA Becomes EUDA: More Powers and Cooperation with Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), to be soon launched, will have more powers to face current and future challenges<\/em><\/div>\n
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The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) will replace the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) on July 2, 2024. The EUDA will have a new mandate and stronger role in addressing drug-related issues in the EU \u2013 adapted from photo by\u00a0Antoine Schibler<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
By the Editorial Team<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The European body that centralizes information on drugs and drug addiction celebrated its thirtieth anniversary last year. With the creation of the\u00a0European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(EMCDDA) in 1993, the European Union committed itself for the first time to developing drugs policies based solely on data collection and scientific evidence.<\/p>\n

New mandate, new agency<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This year marks another milestone in the history of European action on drugs. On 2 July, the EMCDDA will officially become\u00a0EUDA<\/a>, the\u00a0European Union Drugs Agency<\/em>\u00a0(the acronym \u2018EUDA\u2019 remaining the same in all languages). The Agency\u2019s\u00a0new regulation<\/a>, which repeals and replaces the EMCDDA\u2019s, already entered into force in July 2023, but it has taken a whole year of intensive work to prepare for EUDA\u2019s formal launch and to transform the body from a monitoring centre into an agency, with the power to act.<\/p>\n

The EMCDDA was originally set up to provide the Member States with objective and comparable information on the prevalence and trends in drugs and drug addiction and their consequences at European level, in order to adequately inform the development of drugs policies. This objective has not changed. What is changing, however, is the scope of the mandate given to the EUDA and the increased powers conferred on it to enable it to meet current and future challenges in the field of drugs and drug addiction.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just a change of name or brand identity. With a new mandate that is far more proactive and adapted to the current situation, the Agency will have greater powers and a larger budget to support decision-makers in three key areas: monitoring, preparedness and competence development for better interventions.<\/p>\n

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EUDA will be better equipped to help the EU and its Member States deal with emerging drug problems<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n