The European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare is a member of the

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. The current Commissioner is

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. The portfolio is responsible for matters of public health and animal welfare.

Portfolio

Markos Kyprianou Markos Kyprianou ( ; born 22 January 1960) is a Cypriot politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs until his official resignation on 19 July 2011, following the events of the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion. A member of the ...

was appointed to the

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as European Commissioner for Health & Consumer Protection; however, with the accession of Bulgaria on 1 January 2007, the Consumer Protect portfolio was split off and given to

Meglena Kuneva Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (; born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician. Early life and education Born in Sofia, Kuneva is descended from a Catholic family from the town of Rakovski. She graduated in Law from Sofia University in 198 ...

''(See: European Commissioner for Consumer Protection)''. The post's

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is still merged with that office. One policy is the promotion of warnings on tobacco packets, with the Commission moving towards pictorial warnings. Following several

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s enacting bans on smoking in public places Kyprianou proposed a plan for an EU-wide ban of that kind. In May 2007, Kyprianou released a paper to tackle the shortage of

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in the Union. The plan included promotion, specially trained medical staff and an EU wide organ donor card.Brussels to push for EU-wide organ donor card
''EUobserver''. 20 May 2007 After Kyprianou was appointed Foreign Minister of Cyprus, he was replaced by Androulla Vasiliou on 3 March 2008.

List of commissioners

References

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Commissioner's website

{{CommissionPortfolios European Union consumer protection policy European Union health policy Food safety in the European Union Health and Consumer Policy

Portfolio

List of commissioners

See also

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