art_19__para_1
1. National competent authorities or the Commission shall notify an alert in the EWRS, where the emergence or development of a serious cross-border threat to health fulfils the following criteria: it is unusual or unexpected for the given place and time, it is causing or may cause significant morbidity or mortality in humans, it is growing rapidly or may grow rapidly in scale, or it is exceeding or may exceed national response capacity; it affects or may affect more than one Member State; and it requires or may require a coordinated response at Union level.
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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.