The expert group found no additional risk of breast cancer from implants in general or PIP in particular.
The report by the expert group hasn't been finished yet and will have to go to ministers when it is published.
The expert group did find an increased risk of one extremely rare cancer - anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) from all breast implants.
The findings and conclusions of the expert group meeting will also provide the basis for a report of the UN Secretary-General on this theme early in 2003.
The expert group meeting examined experiences and approaches that have proven successful in specific contexts, and will soon publish its recommendations for policies and actions directed at various levels -national, regional and international.
Taking account of the rapid pace of technological change in the area of media and communications, the expert group meeting tried to look to the future in an attempt to anticipate new challenges and trends.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the announcement of the expert group was the "first step on the journey towards creating a welfare system which will support the economy and society of an independent Scotland".
The charity said it intends to write to professional nursing and medical associations to help set up the expert advisory group.
The expert working group will provide a forum for government, industry, researchers and natural resource managers to share their experience of mining and biosphere reserves.
The expert working group will begin with the perspective that geological resources are an important element of development and that biosphere reserves are much more than just protected areas.
This move is a direct result of the findings of an expert group at the National Cancer Institute in France which was asked on 5 December to examine the evidence surrounding the PIP implants.
The debate and parliamentary vote comes a week before the publication of the findings of an expert group set up to advise the Irish government on how to bring legal clarity to the issue of abortion.
The Irish Republic has until 30 November to respond to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling on a case that prompted the formation of the abortion expert advisory group.
Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown said that in theory, the idea of an independent expert group scrutinising decisions made by the Scottish government was a good one.
In the UK, an expert working group submitted a report to the government in January last year calling for powers to regulate the cosmetic treatment industry, including who should be able to give botox treatments.
Both the IMF and the members of Strategy 2020, an expert group formed by the Russian government, call for a gradual increase of the pension age to 63.
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Committee convener Margaret Smith said the executive should set up an expert working group to address the concerns raised in the unanimous cross-party report.
In order to provide a more comprehensive UK response, the UKNC convened an expert task group of leading UK experts from both social and natural sciences to consider the relevance of such a Recommendation, how the scientific landscape has moved on from the 1970s and how any such Recommendation should be developed to meet contemporary need.
"As much as Baghdad might like to object, economy (sic) reality necessitates that it go along with the Kurds -- for now, " wrote Joost Hiltermann, an Iraq expert with the International Crisis Group, in a recent article on Foreign Policy.com.
The potential structure of the welfare system in an independent Scotland is to be considered by an expert group set up by the Scottish government.
The Westminster government has set up an expert group to advise on testing and assessment, which will report later in the spring.
The U.K. expert group estimated as many as two of three women with ruptures don't know it.
The meeting also took this opportunity to elect an international group of renowned experts, the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP), which will ensure the scientific credibility and independence of the IPBES work.
The group will interview "expert witnesses" and hold community meetings before producing a final report in 12 months' time.
Ken Goldstein, the worldwide media liability expert at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, says that all companies should have a policy in place for how their employers can talk about the company on social media, and that they should be training employees to understand defamation, privacy, and intellectual property.
An expert group has been reviewing the work of the 11 centres across England which conduct this type of specialist surgery.
The government has set up an "expert group" to advise on future testing and assessment arrangements which is due to report in "late spring".
Johnston admitted that, despite his own misgivings, Rangers director Donald Muir, the financial expert placed on the board by present owner Sir David Murray's parent group, was more positive about the possible deal.
Quotas tend to benefit the luckiest and best-prepared of the favoured group, not the most disadvantaged, says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the OECD.
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