The European Commission has launched a consultation on health security in the European Union. The aim of this consultation is to seek the views of stakeholders on what action the European Commission should take to protect EU citizens more effectively against serious cross-border health threats.
The Council of the European Union invited Member States in 2010 to further improve their coordination and collaboration in facing serious cross-border health threats, including a coherent approach to preparedness and response to pandemic influenza and to other public health emergencies of international concern. This implies reinforced preparedness, ensuring coherent risk assessment and risk management as well as improving the coordination of public communication on any matter related to health-related crisis involving or likely to threaten more than one Member State.
National, regional and local authorities, health institutions, NGO's, interest groups, enterprises and individual stakeholders are welcome to provide comments to this consultation. The period of consultation will run from 04.03.2011 to 29.04.2011.
Stakeholders can contribute to this consultation via an online questionnaire. A report on received contributions will be published on the Internet.
For more information, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/health/preparedness_response/consultations/preparedn...
