Madelin to be information society director-general

Testori Coggi to take over as director-general of health and consumers department.

Robert Madelin, the European Commission’s director-general for health and consumers, is to become director-general for information society and media, replacing Fabio Colasanti who will retire tomorrow.

Paola Testori Coggi, who has been deputy director-general in the health and consumers department (Sanco) since 2007, will replace Madelin.

The decisions will be formally approved tomorrow (31 March) by the college of commissioners at their weekly meeting in Brussels.

Madelin joined the Commission in 1993 as a member of the cabinet of former European commissioner Leon Brittan. He became director-general of Sanco in 2004. Under Commission rules, directors-general must change jobs every five to seven years.

Madelin has had a high profile in the Sanco post. He has tried to make the most of the EU’s limited competence in health policy, by setting up voluntary initiatives to encourage the food and alcohol industries to promote healthier consumer behaviour, such as the platform on diet, physical health and activity. Supporters of this approach say these initiatives have led to real changes from industry, such as reformulation of foods to reduce salt and sugar, but public health campaigners say they are a poor substitute for regulation.

Testori Coggi has a degree in biological sciences and joined the Commission in 1982 to work on pollution policy. She has worked in the office of former European commissioner Emma Bonino, as well as in the environment and research departments.

Click Here: kanken kids cheap