INPUD

EU Legislative Interests

EU Strategy on Drugs 2013-2020 / Joint Declaration on the EU's legislative priorities for 2017 – Council of the European Union (2016) 15375/16 / EU Health and Drug Strategies and the EU Drug Action Plan 2017-2020 / Justice and fundamental rights, https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights_en / ECDC AND EMCDDA issued guidance on the ‘Prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs’ in October 2011’.

Communication Activities

INPUD (via EuroNPUD) is a member of the Civil Society Forum on Drugs (CSFD). The CSFD was created in 2007 on the basis of the Commission Green Paper on the role of civil society in drugs policy in the EU. It is consistent with the EU Strategy on Drugs 2013-2020 and the new Action Plan on Drugs 2017-2020 both of which require the active and meaningful participation and involvement of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the development and implementation of drug policies, at national, EU and international level. We became members in 2018. Website: http://www.civilsocietyforumondrugs.eu/ EuroNPUD is a member of the Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network, was established in 2004 in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) as a European civil society network and centre of expertise in the field of drug use, harm reduction and social inclusion. We respect and support the core European policies on health and drug use, as reflected in the EU Health and Drug Strategies and the EU Drug Action Plan 2017-2020. Correlation https://www.correlation-net.org/members/ EuroNPUD has developed its Peer Works! Webinar series and Peer Led Harm Reduction Show Case to draw attention to the impact and effectiveness of peer work. EuroNPUD partnered with MDM, INPUD and IRSCE to run the Global Peer Work Consultation involving a number of European partners and the EMCDDA. This highlights both the practice of community-led approaches and the background employment policies, values and principles that underpin this work.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

EuroNPUD is a regional member of the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD). INPUD holds EuroNPUDs contracts and manages the organisations money while INPUD completes a network strengthening project to ready itself for independent registration. EuroNPUD is registering with the EU on INPUD’s behalf as it is a registered and constituted NGO. EuroNPUD is working on independent registration. The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) members are the regional networks of people who use drugs and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD). INPUD Steering Committee nominate and hold accountable the European Board Director of INPUD who represents the interests of people who use drugs and their organisations from the EU and Accession States and supports INPUD’s good governance and strategic planning. We are a member of the Vienna NGO Coordinating Committee which is the mechanism through which civil society partners interact with the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. www.vngoc.org INPUD and EuroNPUD are members of the UNODC CSO Group on Drug Use and HIV, which is a mechanism established to coordinate the partnership and meaningful participation of 25 global and regional drugs/HIV civil society networks with United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global HIV Programme. Coordinated by IDPC – www.idpc.net We are a member of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) that coordinates its member organisations from around the world in advocating for drug law reform. www.idpc.net Our European regional organisation EuroNPUD is a member of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) and its representative sits on the Steering Committee which is developing the network with funding support from the EU. EuroHRN is coordinated by Correlation - www.correlation-net.org We participate in the HIV #SpringTestingWeek collaboration with the European AIDS Treatment Group, the European Liver Patients' Association and the Integrate Joint Action. This is supported by the EC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). ECDC is an independent European Union agency, established to provide the European Union with independent advice on threats to human health posed by communicable disease. Drug Consumption Rooms, http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/drug-consumption-rooms INPUD and EuroNPUD are advocates for DCRs.

Organisation Members

EuroNPUD is a network of drug user organizations from countries in the European Union and its neighbouring countries. The drug user organisations are either local or city drug user groups or national networks of drug user groups from countries in the EU and its neighbouring countries EuroNPUD has member groups in Belgium, Bulgaria Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, German, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden in the EU. We also have member groups in UK, and Norway. A key goal in 2022 will be documenting the baseline status of different drug user groups and developing both a directory of groups and a mailing list of drug user activists and supporters. More information can be found about these member groups on https://www.euronpud.net/networks-groups-tester