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Final Draft Meeting Report: Data-collection at Low-threshold services for Drug Users: Tools, Quality and Coverage, Lisbon, 9-10 December 2004 8 March 2005 Dagmar Hedrich, project manager Meeting Participants, EMCDDA staff, Reitox Community. See further project info at: /?nNodeID=5778  1. Introduction 1.1 The meeting was held at the EMCDDA premises in Avenida Almirante Reis in Lisbon on 9 and 10 December 2004 and chaired by Dagmar Hedrich, project manager harm reduction in the EMCDDA programme ‘responses analysis’ – P2 (). 1.2 It was attended by seventeen participants, including ten experts delegated by the National Focal Points of the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom; a representative of the European Commission DG Sanco; a delegate from the Swiss Office for Harm Reduction and a representative of the EU-funded Correlation network project. Further participants from the side of the EMCDDA were the project managers Abigail David, Linda Montanari, and Lucas Wiessing and the programme coordinator (P2) Margareta Nilson,. Portugal and the European Red Cross / Red Crescent Network on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (ERNA) were unable to attend the meeting (See list of participants in Annex III). 1.3 After a welcome to participants and a short tour-de-table, Dagmar Hedrich described background and objectives of the meeting. As part of its mission to provide objective, reliable and comparable information on the drug situation and on responses in its Member States, the EMCDDA collects data on interventions that aim at the prevention and the reduction of health-related harm among drug users. Strategies to curb morbidity and mortality among drug users are part of a comprehensive approach to drug demand reduction at EU level and included in EU drug strategies () and a EU Council Recommendation (). 1.4 The meeting addresses data-collection on interventions to reduce health-relate