Securing the ESA Platform
The new framework agreement was signed for a period of ten years, allowing development to be envisaged over the medium term. In addition, the DGAl has signed or renewed technical and financial agreements with the other members of the Platform, making it possible to secure the human resources specifically dedicated to the Platform. The DGAL, Inra and Anses have concluded last march 14 a framework agreement defining their respective roles and commitments in the work of epidemiological surveillance platforms in animal health, plant health and food chain safety, with the aim of monitoring and contributing to improving the efficiency and efficiency of supervision in the three areas.
Strengthening of the ESA Platform
Through this new framework agreement, Inra becomes the tenth member of the ESA Platform, which already included DGAl, Anses, GDS France, Coop de France, Cirad, ONCFS, FNC, SNGTV and Adiva. This scientific support will reinforce that already provided by the other scientific bodies, members of the Platform (ANSES, CIRAD, ONCFS), in close collaboration with the human resources also mobilized by the six other members.
The coordination team will also be expanded, bringing together ANSES, DGAl and INRA.
In total, the forces dedicated to coordination and cross-functional support will thus increase, over the next few months, from ten to seventeen full-time equivalents, which constitutes a significant reinforcement.
New challenges and new issues
Since its creation at the end of 2011, the ESA Platform has been mobilized with reactivity on successive health crises: Schmallenberg disease, episodes of highly pathogenic avian influenza, re-emergence of bluetongue (BLF) serotype 8, emergence of FCO serotype 4 in mainland France. It has developed an international health monitoring system which makes it possible to anticipate the development of surveillance systems for health hazards threatening our country (in particular African swine fever, lumpy bovine skin disease, exotic bluetongue serotypes, small hive beetle) . It has also developed innovative surveillance systems: Observatory of livestock mortality (Omar), Observatory of honey bee mortality and weakening (Omaa), Observatory and monitoring of the causes of abortions in ruminants (Oscar). These new devices supplement the existing surveillance devices, with the aim of developing a global integrated animal health surveillance system.
Today, more than twenty health topics are the subject of surveillance action within the framework of the Platform, covering the main health hazards in many production sectors, as well as in wildlife.
The new human resources mobilized for the ESA Platform will make it possible to strengthen its investment in major health topics (e.g. bovine tuberculosis), to consolidate new surveillance systems (e.g. Omar) and to increase its scope of activity ( e.g. salmonella in production chains).