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On 10 March 2023, the Ministry of Consumer Protection, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Viticulture and Rural Development, will organise a conference on the subject of food: "What will we eat tomorrow? The challenges of food production in the face of consumption in transition".

During the Autofestival, officers from the Ministry of Consumer Protection carried out controls on car dealers throughout the country.

On 20 January 2023, the Government Council approved the preliminary draft of the Grand Ducal Regulation on the nomenclature of medical acts and services covered by health insurance in order to implement the programme of preventive medicine and universal access to contraception at national level.

The Luxembourg Institute of Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health as part of the National Cancer Plan, introduces Colive Cancer, a nationwide initiative in which current and former cancer patients can share their experiences to improve cancer care in the country.

Every year on 18 November, the European Antibiotic Awareness Day takes place, as well as World Antimicrobial Awareness Week from 18 to 24 November. These days are an opportunity to better inform the general public, healthcare professionals and animal owners about the ever-increasing risks associated with the inappropriate use of antibiotics.

The final day of the working visit to the United States, chaired by H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and co-chaired by the Minister of Health Paulette Lenert and Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot, included the launch of a start-up programme and an event on space financing in New York.

After two intense days in Boston, the delegation arrived in New York for the third day of the working visit to the United States, chaired by H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and led jointly by the Minister of Health, Paulette Lenert, and the Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot.

The second day of the working visit to Boston and New York presided over by H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke was dominated by the signing of a memorandum of understanding on 8 November between the Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, and Steve Schwartz, President and CEO of Azenta.

The first day of the working visit to the United States, chaired by H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and led jointly by the Minister of Health Paulette Lenert and Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot, started in Boston.

Two and a half years after the start of the pandemic crisis, the OECD will present a multidimensional assessment of the management of COVID-19 in Luxembourg. The livestreaming starts around 9am.

As foreseen in the European common procurement contract, 1,400 doses of vaccine have been delivered to Luxembourg. The vaccines were ordered through HERA, the European Agency for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response.

On the occasion of the public celebration of the birthday of HRH the Grand Duke, members of the Grand Duke's family and the government attended the festivities organised in Lellingen (municipality of Kiischpelt), Esch-sur-Alzette and Luxembourg City on 22nd and 23rd June 2022.

On the occasion of the International Day of Food Safety, which took place on June 7, the Government Commissariat for Quality, Safety and Food Fraud organized, in collaboration with the Ministry for Consumer Protection, a conference on official controls in the food chain.

On June 7, 2022, on the occasion of the International Food Safety Day, the HORESCA federation, in the presence of the Minister for Consumer Protection Paulette Lenert, presented the update of its guide to good practices food hygiene for companies in the hotel, restaurant and café sector in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg has joined a small group of countries to participate in the pilot phase of the WHO BioHub project, dedicated to SARS-CoV-2, of the World Health Organization (WHO). The country was the first to contribute COVID-19 virus samples to the new hub in the framework of the initiative.