Article 17

A Health Security Committee, composed of representatives of the Member States designated under point (c) of Article 15(1), is hereby established. The HSC shall have the following tasks: supporting the exchange of information between the Member States and the Commission on the experience acquired with regard to the implementation of this Decision; coordination in liaison with the Commission of the preparedness and response planning of the Member States in accordance with Article 4; coordination in liaison with the Commission of the risk and crisis communication and responses of the Member States to serious cross-border threats to health, in accordance with Article 11. The HSC shall be chaired by a representative of the Commission. The HSC shall meet at regular intervals and whenever the situation requires, on a request from the Commission or a Member State. The secretariat shall be provided by the Commission. The HSC shall adopt, by a majority of two thirds of its members, its rules of procedure. Those rules of procedure shall establish working arrangements, in particular with regard to: the procedures for plenary meetings at high level and working groups; the participation of experts in plenary meetings, the status of observers, including from third countries; the arrangements for the HSC to examine the relevance to its mandate of a matter submitted to it and the possibility of recommending referral of that matter to a body competent under a provision of another act of the Union or under the Euratom Treaty; those arrangements shall not affect the obligations of the Member States under Articles 4 and 11 of this Decision.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.