Gesamtkonferenz Deutscher Heilpraktikerverbände und Fachgesellschaften
GesaKoDHP&FG
Bei der Gesamtkonferenz Deutscher Heilpraktikerverbände und Fachgesellschaften handelt es sich um eine Kooperation von Berufsverbänden der Heilpraktikerschaft und methodenspezifischen Fachverbänden der traditionellen und/oder komplementären Heilkunde sowie der Psychotherapie.
ID: 317492347502-06
Lobbying Activity
Response to Revision of the Union legislation on blood, tissues and cells
8 Sept 2022
Our cooperation of Professional Associations of German State-Registered CAM Practitioners (Gesamtkonferenz Deutscher Heilpraktikerverbände und Fachgesellschaften) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on Substances of Human Origin (SoHO).
The new safety standards are intended to ensure the safety and quality of substances of human origin (hereinafter "SoHO") and thus a high level of health protection for the citizens of the EU. This intent is definitely most welcome!
However, as a result of the language in the current proposal, it would no longer be possible to perform numerous common procedures of a proven method of therapy, namely autohemotherapy.
Therefore, our network joins the amendment of Association of German State-Registered CAM Practitioners, reg. assoc. & Free State-Registered CAM Practitioners, reg. assoc. (Germany) from September 6, 2022.
Background: Autohemotherapy is performed throughout Europe, e.g. in Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Austria, Romania, Spain, Poland and Portugal, as well as worldwide. It has been used throughout the EU in many practices of physicians and health practitioners for many decades. This therapeutic method has significant health benefits for patients. It has been shown to be extremely low-risk: There have not been any cases of damage associated with this method for many years. Numerous studies provide scientific evidence of the effectiveness of this method.
It is therefore imperative that the new regulation be worded in such a way that the proven therapeutic methods of autohemotherapy are excluded from the new guideline so that they continue to be available to patients.
Our proposed amendment therefore reads, To supplement Article 2(2) as follows with the exemption described under letter (d):
(2) In cases of autologous use of SoHO in which
(…)
(d) SoHO preparations for homeopathic purposes or SoHO preparations for immunotherapy are manufactured under the direct professional responsibility of a person authorized to practice medicine on humans for the purpose of personal application for a specific patient, this regulation shall not apply. This also applies in particular to oxygen-ozone therapy.
We refer to the attached legal opinion for the reasons.
The following associations support the amendment of Association of German State-Registered CAM Practitioners, reg. assoc. & Free State-Registered CAM Practitioners, reg. assoc. (Germany) from September 6, 2022:
• Allgemeine Gesellschaft Anthroposophischer Heilpraktikerinnen und Heilpraktiker e. V. – AGAHP
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Chiropraktik, Osteopathie und Neuraltherapie Deutscher Heilpraktiker e.V. – ACON
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Klassische Akupunktur und Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin e.V. – AGTCM
• Bundesverband für Darmgesundheit und Colon-Hydro-Therapie e.V. – BCHT
• Chiropraktik Campus Hamburg CCH
• Craniosacral Verband Deutschland e.V. - CSVD
• Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft für Chiropraktik e.V. – DAGC
• Deutsche Akademie für Chelat-Therapie e.V. - DACT
• DIE HEILPRAKTIKER e.V. – DHP
• Europäischer Verband für Naturheilkunde e.V. – EVN
• Fachakademie Klinische und Komplementäre Onkologie Deutscher Heilpraktiker - FAKODH
• Fachgesellschaft für Komplexhomöopathie e. V. – FAKOM
• Fachverband deutsche Heilpraktikerschulen e.V.
• Gemeinsam starke Heilpraktiker e.V. - GSH
• Heilpraktiker Gesellschaft für Ozontherapie e.V. - HPGO 3
• Heilpraktiker-Netzwerk n.e.V - HPN
• Heilpraktiker Verband Südwest e.V. – HV-SW
• Lachesis – Berufsverband für Heilpraktikerinnen e. V.
• Netzwerk Heilpraktiker für aesthetische Medizin – NHaeM
• Verband Freier Psychotherapeuten, Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie und Psychologischer Berater e.V.
• Verband Deutscher Kunsttherapeuten e. V. – VDKT
• Verband klassischer Homöopathen Deutschlands e.V.
• Verband Unabhängiger Heilpraktiker e.V. – VUH
such as
• WORLD Federation of Ozone Therapy
• Polskie Towarzystwo Ozonoterapii PTOzon
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