5.5. 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.
As regards Decision No 2119/98/EC, the Commission should be empowered in particular to establish the communicable diseases and the criteria for selection of those diseases to be covered by the Community network, as well as the epidemiological and microbiological surveillance methods. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Decision No 2119/98/EC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC. When an emergency situation occurs with regard to the appearance or to new developments of a serious communicable disease, the epidemiological surveillance system should be triggered as soon as possible, in order to ensure protection of the population and public health. When on imperative grounds of urgency the normal time-limits for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny cannot be complied with, the Commission should be able to have recourse to the urgency procedure provided for in Article 5a(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC for the adoption of decisions determining the communicable diseases, the criteria for the selection of those diseases and the epidemiological and microbiological surveillance methods, as well as for the amendments to the Annex to Decision No 2119/98/EC containing the list of categories of communicable diseases. Accordingly, Decision No 2119/98/EC is hereby amended as follows: Article 3 shall be amended as follows: the introductory words shall be replaced by the following: ‘With a view to the effective operation of the Community network with regard to epidemiological surveillance and to achieving uniform information within this framework, the following shall be adopted by the Commission:’; the following paragraphs shall be added: ‘The measures referred to in points (a), (b) and (e), designed to amend non-essential elements of this Decision, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3). On imperative grounds of urgency, the Commission may have recourse to the urgency procedure referred to in Article 7(4). The measures referred to in points (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2).’; Article 6(5) shall be replaced by the following: ‘5. Procedures concerning the information and consultation referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 and procedures concerning the coordination referred to in paragraphs 1 and 4 shall be established in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2).’; Article 7 shall be amended as follows: paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following: ‘3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’; the following paragraph shall be added: ‘4. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1), (2), (4) and (6) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’; Article 8 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 8 The Annex may be amended or supplemented by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Decision, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3). On imperative grounds of urgency, the Commission may have recourse to the urgency procedure referred to in Article 7(4).’.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-21 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.