1. The Committee of Ministers has considered
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation
1966 (2011) on “Safeguarding children and young people from obesity
and type 2 diabetes” and has forwarded it to the relevant intergovernmental
bodies.Note It considers the
work carried out by the Assembly as a valuable and comprehensive
overview of current issues concerning challenges in nutritional
policy and the way the situation is tackled by the member states.
It has brought it to the attention of governments of member states
to bear in mind as appropriate when responding to emerging public
health problems.
2. In reply to the specific recommendations, the Committee of
Ministers considers that the fundamental WHO policy documents in
the field, referred to in the Resolution, and possibly supplemented
by the recent WHO Draft Global Nutrition Policy Review (20 December
2010), give sufficient guidelines to member states to intensify
prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In addition, it recalls
that the international community (WHO as well as WHO EURO) has already
agreed on several other instruments to prevent obesity and non-communicable
diseases (including diabetes), such as the Global Strategy on Diet,
Physical Activity and Health, the Action Plan for the Global Strategy
for the Prevention and Control of NCDs, or the Second WHO European Action
Plan for Food and Nutrition Policy 2007-2012.
3. The Committee of Ministers therefore sees no added-value in
developing new guidelines to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes
as this would risk a duplication of work carried out in other organisations.
