The Council also invited the Commission to establish a Community-wide injury surveillance system either to make the information contained in the database easily accessible to all stakeholders. Over the past few years, several projects have been initiated by the Commission to develop such an exchange of injury data at the EU level based on data collected in accident and emergency departments at general hospitals. In 2010, thirteen EU-MSs were routinely collecting injury data in a sample of hospitals and delivering these data to the Commission, in line with the Injury Data Base (IDB) methodology [5]. This methodology allowed countries to collect accident and injury data from a representative sample of emergency departments in the participating countries and to use a standardised classification for coding the circumstances of the injury-event and its outcome (as a derivative classification of the WHO-International Classification of External Causes of Injuries, ICECI [6]).

IDB-system complements existing data sources such as the routine causes of death statistics, hospital discharge registers and data sources specific to injury areas, including road accidents and work related accidents. Currently 13 countries are still collecting injury data in line with this methodology, although some only for a selected population, e.g. by collecting information in pediatric hospitals only or by collecting only injuries due to home and leisure accidents.

A new three year injury-data collection initiative In order to encourage continuation of these data collection efforts and the inclusion of the remaining EU-MSs in EU-wide injury data exchange, the European Commission, DG for Health and Consumers (DG Sanco) is currently funding a public health Joint Action on injuries known as JAMIE (Joint Action on Monitoring Injuries in Europe) from 2011�C2013. The project is being endorsed by the Ministries of Health in 22 EU-MSs (see list inAppendix I). Each of these Ministries have designated a internal unit or a national competent organisation to contribute to the JAMIE-project and to test the feasibility of introducing an Entinostat pragmatic and sustainable injury surveillance in their country. The JAMIE project aims at having by 2015 a common hospital-based surveillance system for injury prevention in operation in all MS. Such a system should report on external causes of injuries due to accidents and violence as part of the Community Statistics on Public Health.