Table 1.

Assessment of legislations according to the WHO Global report on diabetes and EU strategic framework for the prevention of NCDs guidelines.

Themes	Binding	Non-binding	Total
A life-course approach to preventing diabetes	2	18	20
Improving early childhood nutrition	1	11	12
Supportive environments for physical activity	0	11	11
Settings-based interventions	1	9	10
Fiscal, legislative and regulatory measures for healthy diet	2	12	14
Trade and agricultural policies that promote healthy diets	3	11	14
Regulation of marketing of foods high in sugars, fats and salt.	3	11	14
Education, social marketing and mobilization	2	12	14
Preventing diabetes in people at high risk	0	12	12
Implement the WHO “Best buys”	2	11	13
Tackle health inequalities and Adopt a rights-based approach	0	4	4
Elaborate a pan-European system for data collection, policy evaluation and accountability	0	3	3
Ensure inter-institutional coordination on health and well-being and a policy home for health within the European Commission structure	0	5	5
Launch a “Health in All Policies” online policy portal	0	0	0
Pursue “EU flagship initiatives” in areas that can deliver co-benefits for NCD prevention and other SDGs*	1	7	8

Legend, During coding each legislation might have fallen under several categories. WHO: World Health Organization, NCDs: Non-communicable diseases. Sources of the variables shown in the first column are according to the WHO documents entitled Global report on diabetes (25) and the joint paper of the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) “Toward an EU strategic framework for the prevention of NCDs” (26).