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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-369/annex",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-369/annex.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/369",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2016/369 of 15 March 2016 on the provision of emergency support within the Union",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-369",
  "path": "annex",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Eligible actions",
  "text": "The following actions may be financed in case of pandemics with large‐scale effect:\n(a) temporary reinforcement of the medical workforce, exchange of medical professionals, hosting foreign patients or other type of mutual support;\n(b) deployment of temporary healthcare facilities and temporary extension of existing healthcare facilities to relieve pressure on existing structures and increase overall healthcare capacity;\n(c) activities to support the administration of large‐scale application of medical tests and prepare the necessary scientific testing strategies and protocols;\n(d) setting up temporary quarantine facilities and other appropriate measures at the Union borders;\n(e) development, production or purchase and distribution of medical products;\n(f) increases and conversions of production capacities for medical products as referred to in point (e) to address supply shortages;\n(g) maintenance of the stock of medical products as referred to in point (e) and their disposal;\n(h) actions to support the necessary steps to obtain approval for the use of the medical products as referred to in point (e) if required;\n(i) actions to develop appropriate methods to track the development of the pandemic and the results of measures implemented to address it;\n(j) organisation of ad‐hoc clinical trials of potential therapies or diagnostics according to trial standards agreed at Union level;\n(k) scientific validation of medical products, including potential new testing methods.\nThe above list is not exhaustive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Council Regulation (EU) 2020/521 of 14 April 2020 activating the emergency support under Regulation (EU) 2016/369, and amending its provisions taking into account the COVID‐19 outbreak."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/369/annex",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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