7 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2020/0320(COD)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) These networks should provide the Centre with the necessary data for the swift mitigation of medical supply shortages through joint procurement procedures at Union Level.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
Recital 8 b (new)
(8 b) To retrieve medical information from data in one or more Member States with a single query a European interconnected database should be foreseen, making data more accessible.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9 a) The Centre should analyze the efficiency of its essential systems for detection alerts (EWRS), epidemic intelligence (EPIS) and disease surveillance (TESSy) and make use of new digital technologies available to enhance their capabilities.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 b (new)
Recital 9 b (new)
(9 b) The creation of a permanent common European medical emergency units, under the name of EU Blue Medical Corps should be envisaged. This new corps should be composed of medical and emergency intervention professionals from different Member States. Those medical emergency units should be in charge of providing support for cross- border and pan-European medical situations or crisis. The new permanent medical emergency units should use the positive outcomes of the successful voluntary-based medical mobilities financed by the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) To strengthen the capacity of the Union and Member States to assess the epidemiological situation and perform accurate risk assessment and response, the Centre should in particular monitor and report on trends in communicable diseases, support and facilitate evidence-based response action, provide recommendations for improvement of communicable disease prevention and control programmes established at the national and Union level, monitor and assess the capacity of national health systems for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of communicable diseases, including in a gender-sensitive way, identify population groups at risk requiring specific measures, analyse the correlation of disease incidence with societal and environmental factors, and identify risk factors for transmission and disease severity of communicable diseases, and identify and reinforce research needs and priorities. The Centre should work with nominated national focal points for surveillance, forming a network that strategically advises the Centre on such matters and would promote the use of enabling sectors, such as EU space data and services.
Amendment 21 #
(14) The Centre should enhance preparedness and response capabilities at national and Union level by providing scientific and technical expertise to the Member States and the Commission. In this context the Centre, in close collaboration with the Member States and the Commission, should carry out various actions, including the development of Union and national preparedness and response plans and preparedness and broader monitoring and evaluation frameworks of the epidemiological situation in Europe, provide recommendations on capacities to prevent, prepare and respond to disease outbreaks and on the strengthening of national health systems. The Centre should broaden its collection and analysis of data in terms of epidemiological surveillance and related special health issues, progression of epidemic situations, unusual epidemic phenomena or new diseases of unknown origin, including in third countries, molecular pathogen data and health systems data. To this end, the Centre should ensure appropriate datasets as well as the procedures to facilitate consultation and data transmission and access, carry out scientific and technical evaluation of prevention and control measures at Union level and work with agencies, competent bodies and organisations operating in the field of data collection.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Since the objectives of this Regulation to expand the mission and tasks of the Centre in order to enhance the Centre’s capacity to provide the required scientific expertise and to support actions which combat serious cross-border threats to health in the Union cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the cross- border nature of the health threats and the need for rapid, better coordinated and coherent response to new emerging health threats, be achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.