The children’s environment and health action plan for Europe (CEHAPE) was on the agenda for the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health held in Budapest at the end of June 2004. An action plan released by the European Commission on June 9 included 13 actions to be implemented by 2010, including expansion of environmental research and training. A WHO sponsored study of the environmental burden of disease (EBD) in children (

) was carried out in order to provide data for …