MEETING ABSTRACT Open Access State of the art of rare disease activities in Europe: a EUCERD perspective

Two years ago, at the ECRD in Krakow, we were celebrat-ing the recommendation of the Council of Ministers on an action in the field of rare diseases: this recommendation requests that Member States define and implement a plan or a strategy for rare diseases by the end of 2013 and asks the European Commission to establish a EU Committee of Experts in the field of Rare Diseases (EUCERD) as a forum of stakeholders to propose action points at EU level. Tw