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European Union Drugs Agency

Coordinates: 38°42′21″N 9°08′35″W / 38.70572°N 9.14307°W / 38.70572; -9.14307
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38°42′21″N 9°08′35″W / 38.70572°N 9.14307°W / 38.70572; -9.14307

Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Formation1993 (established)
Location
Director
Wolfgang Götz
Websiteemcdda.europa.eu

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is an agency of the European Union. Established in 1993, the EMCDDA is located in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]

Mission and role

One of the two agency buildings in Lisbon.

The Centre's role is to gather, analyse and disseminate "factual, objective, reliable and comparable information" on drugs and drug addiction and, in so doing, provide its audiences with a sound and evidence-based picture of the drug phenomenon at European level.[citation needed]

Among the Centre's target groups are policy-makers, who use this information to help formulate coherent national and EU drug strategies. Also served are professionals and researchers working in the drugs field and, more broadly, the European media and general public.

At the heart of the Centre's work is the task of improving the comparability of drug information across Europe and devising the methods and tools required to achieve this. As a result of efforts to date, countries can now view how they fit into the wider European picture and examine common problems and goals. A key feature of the drug phenomenon is its shifting, dynamic nature, and tracking new developments is a central task of the EMCDDA.

Network, report and partnerships

The Centre obtains information primarily from the 'Reitox network': a group of focal points in each of the 28 EU Member States, Norway, the candidate countries to the EU, and at the European Commission.[citation needed] This human and computer network links the national information systems of the 28 Member States, Norway, and their key partners to the EMCDDA. It acts as a practical instrument for the collection and exchange of data and information.

The annual report on the state of the drugs problem in the European Union and Norway and an online statistical bulletin offer a yearly overview of the latest European drug situation and trends. Meanwhile online country situation summaries provide a pool of national drug-related data.[citation needed]

EMCDDA works in partnership with non-EU countries as well as with international bodies such as the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, the World Health Organisation, the Council of Europe's Pompidou Group, the World Customs Organization, the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and the European Police Office.[citation needed]

New premises

Palacete do Relógio – one of the two agency buildings in Lisbon.

Since 2009, the EMCDDA shares new premises with the European Maritime Safety Agency near Lisbon's Cais do Sodré train station. The building project, managed and approved by the Port of Lisbon Authority, was subject to some controversy from citizens' groups in the city.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ EC.Europa.eu
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