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Committee on Public Health and Food Safety

Distinguished delegates of the Committee on Public Health and Food Safety!

Let us first congratulate you for being chosen to represent your federal state in the national MEP session in January 2015. Our names are Saam Mahmoodian and Fabian Schinerl and we will be your Committee Presidents in Bregenz. Our task will be to chair the Committee Meetings and to help you devising the resolution.

During the Committee Meetings, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, we are going to work on the so-called introductive clauses (IC´s) and the operative clauses (OC´s). By formulating IC´s, we will outline and point out the actual problems of our topic. Afterwards, we have to set up an approach to solving these problems in terms of writing down OC´s. Since the OC´s can be considered as the most important part of the resolution and the overall time available for the Committee Meetings is little, we should not spend too much time on the IC´s. I therefore advise you all to prepare and to sum up the problems of our topic in advance in order to proceed quickly and more effectively. After having finished the resolution itself, we will choose members of the committee to deliver several speeches in the General Assembly, such as the opening speech, the speech against the amendment and the speech in favour of the resolution.

As a matter of organisation, we are still thinking about several possibilities in order to improve communication within our committee. Firstly, we urge you to download “WhatsApp” because of the reason that a group will be established as soon as we have all your phone numbers. Since most of you might also get some homework (for instance looking up facts and figures, doing some research or writing IC´s and OC´s), we recommend bringing your laptop (or tablet) to the national MEP session in Bregenz. Our committee may also use “Google docs” which would allow all the members to work on the resolution simultaneously, no matter where they are located. Moreover, we are going to send you an email everyday after the schedule, containing a summary of the day´s meeting and reminders if necessary.

At this point we would like to draw your attention to the importance of the preparation work, which can be considered as the foundation of our meetings. Without any previous knowledge, you will not be able to actively take part in the discussions. Therefore we kindly request you to submit a summary of the most important aspects of our topic (approximately two pages) by latest 18th January 2015. Please take this work seriously, since it will also have an impact on your evaluations. The more prepared you are, the more likely it is to fulfil our expectations. We want you to have a broad knowledge of the topic, as well as to participate in the discussions and do the given homework, thus achieving a solid resolution.

We wish you all the best for your preparation and are already looking forward to working with you. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case there is any question. We will certainly try to respond as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Saam Mahmoodian Fabian Schinerl
(Committee President) (Committee President Secretary)

 

 

“Should the EU play a role in protecting juveniles from alcohol and drugs abuse, smoking and unhealthy eating habits? If so, how should EU regulation relate to national regulation in this field? How can the member states of the EU cooperate to safeguard the health of young people against mental stress, alcohol abuse, smoking and poor levels of nutrition? What role can schools and educational programmes play?”

Issues that need to be addressed in the resolution

While researching please check whether the source is an acclaimed publication, relevant to the issue, up-to-date and objective.

 

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco abuse of juveniles & unhealthy eating habits:

 

Already existing EU-regulations on alcohol, drugs, tobacco and junk food:

 

Prevent juveniles from mental stress, alcohol abuse, smoking & poor levels of nutrition:

 

Role of school and educational programmes: