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On Friday (14 June), Norway signed the European Declaration on linking genomic databases across borders. The co-operation aims to improve understanding and prevention of disease, allowing for more personalised treatments, in particular for rare diseases, cancer and prevention of diseases.

The Declaration is an agreement of cooperation between different countries aimed to provide secure and authorized cross-border access to national and regional banks of genetic and other health data, in accordance with the EU data protection rules.  Norway is the 21stsignatory of the Declaration, which was originally launched on 10 April 2018 during the Digital Day.

The member states that have signed it are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Their representatives met recently to discuss the implementation of the declaration, the organisational structure needed for closer cooperation, including infrastructure or technical requirements and the necessary conditions to guarantee safe data circulation in line with high ethical and legal standards. The goal is to keep the EU at the global forefront of personalised medicine, at the same time as fostering scientific output and industrial competitiveness.

For more information about the European digital health initiative see here.

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