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2. The network for epidemiological surveillance shall aim to: monitor trends in communicable diseases over time, across Member States and in third countries, to assess the situation, respond to rises above warning thresholds and facilitate appropriate evidence-based action; detect and monitor any cross-border communicable disease outbreaks with regard to source, time, population and place in order to provide a rationale for public health action; contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of communicable disease prevention and control programmes in order to provide the evidence for recommendations to strengthen and improve those programmes at the national and Union levels; identify and monitor risk factors for disease transmission, and population groups at risk and in need of targeted prevention measures; contribute to the assessment of the burden of communicable diseases on the population, using such data as disease prevalence, complications, hospitalisation and mortality; contribute to the assessment of the capacity of health systems to diagnose, prevent and treat specific communicable diseases, with the objective of contributing to patient safety in the context of serious cross-border threats to health; contribute to modelling and scenario development for response; contribute to the identification of research priorities and needs, and implement relevant research activities aimed at strengthening public health; and support the contact-tracing measures of competent health authorities.

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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.