Division 2.2.1 Capacity to deal with an influenza pandemic and tackle particular health threats (Article 3.2.a., Annex — points 2.1., 2.2., 2.3., 2.4., 2.8.)

United Kingdom

This action aims to foster capacities and strategies to assist Member States, Candidate Countries, and EEA/EFTA Countries, and the Community as a whole, in dealing with particular health threats. Particular priority is attached to the threat of an influenza pandemic and activities on influenza prevention/management, shared emergency communication strategies and preparedness and the development and sharing of high quality tools and information on health and socio-economic impact of pandemic and related counter-measures, in coordination with European Research Framework Programme activities^f1. Other priorities are:

non-communicable disease threats, such as those related to chemical and environmental issues, requiring rapid intervention;
further development of early warning system on chemical agents and traceability activities on transportation over borders of dangerous substances relevant to public health;
communicable disease management aspects of migrant health and cross-border issues;
risk and threat analysis of emerging infectious disease including zoonotic pathogens, complementing work of ECDC.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Refer also to FP6 Scientific Support to Policies, 5th Call, SSP-5B INFLUENZA.

See: http://fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP6ActivityCallsPage&ID_ACTIVITY=500

Notes on Division 2

Footnotes

f1

Decision No 1513/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 (OJ L 232, 29.8.2002, p. 1).

f2

Refer also to FP6 Scientific Support to Policies, 5th Call, SSP-5A Areas 2.1 & 2.2.

See: http://fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP6ActivityCallsPage&ID_ACTIVITY=500

f3

Council Decision 2002/834/EC of 30 September 2002 adopting a specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration ‘Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area’ (2002-2006) (OJ L 294, 29.10.2002, p. 1).

f4

The CORDIS web site links to the FP6 Priority 1 is http://www.cordis.lu/lifescihealth/ssp.htm

Notes on Division 2.2

Footnotes

f1

Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 1998 setting up a network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the Community (OJ L 268, 3.10.1998, p. 1).

2000/57/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4016) (OJ L 21, 26.1.2000, p. 32).

2000/96/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on the communicable diseases to be progressively covered by the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4015) (OJ L 28, 3.2.2000, p. 50).

2002/253/EC: Commission Decision of 19 March 2002 laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2002) 1043) (OJ L 86, 3.4.2002, p. 44).

f2

Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control (OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

f3

See http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_threats/Bioterrorisme/bioterrorism01_en.pdf