Alois Leidwein

• Head of Department at Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit

Climate change and other factors like roll back of living environment of species make outbreak of pandemics more likely. To respond adequately to threats arising from pathogens like emerging arboviruses such as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus or the West Nile virus, mobile one health laboratories with the highest bio-safety level 4 (BSL4...

Within this paper requirements and related gaps associated with cross-border pandemic management are analyzed. In order to systematically investigate the potential of solutions to close such gaps, trials can be executed and evaluated. Core elements of such trials are specific scenarios that frame the validation of the applicability of solutions. St...

COVID-19 still represents one of the greatest global challenges of the last decades in terms of medical, coordination and management aspects, but also on the societal and economic level. Even after more than two years, the rapidly changing requirements that the emerging variations of the virus call for, show that Austria-as the majority of countrie...

During a global pandemic, mitigating the impact of the disease and coordinating efforts to manage not only the medical but also the logistical and administrative aspects of such an all-encompassing phenomenon are of paramount importance. An extremely important but less publicised issue in this context is laboratory management and safety in analytic...

COVID-19 represents one of the greatest global challenges of the last decades in terms of medical, coordination and management aspects, but also on the societal and economic level. The borderline experience of dealing with such a complex, global event has shown that Austria – as the majority of countries and organizations – was inadequately prepare...

Zusammenfassung Die Legaldefinitionen „Landwirtschaft“ und „landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb“ differieren zwischen dem Recht der Europäischen Union (EU-Recht) und nationalem Recht. Der „landwirtschaftliche Betrieb“ ist zudem im nationalen Recht unterschiedlich definiert. Dieser Beitrag analysiert Legaldefinitionen und Begrifflichkeiten relevanter Recht...

Europe consists of various different regions with their own local traditions, specialties and peculiarities. There is currently a lack of awareness of local traditional foods, traditional specialties, traditional agricultural practices and traditional ecological knowledge in Europe, because the international debate has focused mostly on traditional...