TAIEX and AVIS Workshop
On September 14, the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX) Instrument of the European Commission kindly hosted a consultation workshop on AVIS at the TAIEX offices in Brussels. The workshop was chaired by Olga Zorko, TAIEX and Malika Moussaid, AVIS and looked at AVIS and other Taeix web-site accessible databases. Some 64 delegates attended from 20 European countries, representing laboratories, inspection services, and epidemiology. Participants expressed a high level of appreciation for the workshop itself and strong support for continuing to extend AVIS as a web-based tool for use in state veterinary services. Further workshops are now under consideration. AVIS subscribers outside Europe may also contact Malika Moussaid with any suggestions for similar consultation workshops in the future.