Regulation 12 Information about other serious cross-border health threats

(1)

This regulation applies where a UK public health agency has notified the UK focal point, in accordance with regulation 10, of a serious cross-border health threat which is not a communicable disease or a related special health matter listed in the Schedule.

(2)

Following the notification of the alert, each UK public health agency must, in accordance with the Communications Protocol and for the duration of the threat, share with the UK focal point all relevant and available information relating to that threat which it has obtained from its monitoring activities.

(3)

The information shared under paragraph (2) must, if available, include in particular any change—

(a)

in the geographical distribution, spread and severity of the threat concerned; and

(b)

in the means of detection of that threat.