From the EU Legislation to the Application of the Single European Code: Support to the Implementation

Valentina Caramia; Angelo Ghirardini; Paola Di Ciaccio; Francesca Vespasiano; Maura Mareri; Alessandro Nanni Costa

doi:10.1159/000481144

From the EU Legislation to the Application of the Single European Code: Support to the Implementation

Transfus Med Hemother. 2017 Nov;44(6):391-394. doi: 10.1159/000481144. Epub 2017 Nov 9.

Authors

Valentina Caramia¹, Angelo Ghirardini¹, Paola Di Ciaccio¹, Francesca Vespasiano¹, Maura Mareri¹, Alessandro Nanni Costa¹

Affiliation

¹ Italian National Transplant Centre, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

The Italian National Transplant Centre (CNT) is coordinating with the Italian National Blood Centre (CNS) the Joint Action '!' (www.eurocet128.eu), already built the European Tissue Establishment and Tissue and Cell Product Compendia between 2011 and 2014 in order to provide European Member States with a tool which would grant traceability of tissues and cells at human transplant purpose across the European Union. The two compendia are available on an online platform hosted and managed by the European Commission.

Keywords: Cells; Compendium; EU legislation; Eurocet128; Product; Single European Code; Tissue establishment; Tissues; Traceability; VISTART.

Publication types

Review