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Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four · European Union

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.

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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.