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![[EUDA flag]](../images/e/eu_euda.gif)
Flag of EUDA - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 30 May 2025
The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), known until July 2, 2024
(sources, official website on this page and this page) as the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
(EMCDDA) is the
leading authority on illicit drugs in Europe. It is an organization
that prepares and shares independent, scientifically validated
knowledge, alerts and recommendations to improve EU preparedness on
drugs.
[Sources: official website, facebook page, linkedin page, wikipedia article]
Esteban Rivera, 29 May 2025
EMCDDA (website) was
established in 1993. Inaugurated in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1995, it was one of the EU's
decentralised agencies.
The EMCDDA exists to provide the EU and its Member States with a factual
overview of European drug problems and a solid evidence base to support the
drugs debate. Today it offers policymakers the data they need for drawing up informed drug laws and strategies. It also helps professionals and practitioners working in the field pinpoint best practice and new areas of research.
Zoltán Horváth, 11 April 2011
![[EUDA flag]](../images/e/eu_euda.jpg)
![[EUDA flag]](../images/e/eu_euda2).jpg)
Flag and logo explanation of EUDA - Images located by Esteban Rivera, 29 May 2025
The flag is a blue horizontal background with the logo which are the organization's initials, as officially described: "The shapes in the logo are simplified versions of the four letters from our acronym: E-U-D-A. The white stars come from the European Union symbol. And the bright colours represent our new identity and the EUDA's personality" (source: official website).
EUDA flag raising picture from this page on the official website.
EUDA logo explained: picture (copied image) from the original on the official website.
Esteban Rivera, 29 May 2025
Former flag of EMCDDA 2013-2024
![[EMCCDA flag]](../images/e/eu_emcd2.gif)
Flag of EMCDDA 2013-2024 - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 30 May 2025
![[EMCCDA flag]](../images/e/eu_emcdd2.jpg)
Picture of the EMCDDA logo from the EUDA facebook page.
Image of the EMCDDA flag in this video at 1:02
onwards and image on Wikimedia Commons.
Esteban Rivera, 29 May 2025
Former flag of EMCDDA before 2013
![[EMCCDA flag]](../images/e/eu_emcdd.gif)
Flag of EMCDDA before 2013 - Image by Zoltán Horváth, 11 April 2011
The flag of EMCDDA, as forwarded by the agency, is blue with the agency's logo in the middle.
The logo consists in a blue and yellow rectangle with a white and blue arch, and the 12 stars placed around it. The stars are yellow and blue, respectively.
Zoltán Horváth, 11 April 2011
![[EMCCDA flag]](../images/e/eu_emcdd1.jpg)
Picture of the logo and photograph of the flag from the EUDA facebook page.
Esteban Rivera, 29 May 2025
This photo was posted in 2011.
The logo was in use since at least 2006 [source: official website archived]
and was replaced by the silver logo in june 2013 [source: official website archived].
Olivier Touzeau, 30 May 2025