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3. The Union prevention, preparedness and response plan shall, in particular, include provisions on joint arrangements for governance, capacities and resources for: the timely cooperation between the Commission, the Council, the Member States, the HSC and the relevant Union agencies or bodies. The Union prevention, preparedness and response plan shall take into account the services and support potentially available under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, and, in particular, the capacities under the rescEU stockpile as laid down in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/570 (30) or other mechanisms, the capacities and resources made available for its purposes by the Union and the Member States, and the cooperation with the WHO for cross-border threats to health; the secure exchange of information between the Commission, the Member States, in particular the competent authorities or designated bodies responsible at national level, the HSC and the relevant Union agencies or bodies; the epidemiological surveillance and monitoring; the early warning and risk assessment, especially regarding cross-border interregional preparedness and response; the risk and crisis communication, including to health professionals and citizens; the health preparedness and response and multi-sectoral collaboration, such as identifying risk factors for disease transmission and the associated disease burden, including social, economic and environmental determinants, following the One Health approach for zoonotic, food and waterborne diseases and relevant other diseases and related special health issues; the drawing up of an overview of the production capacities for relevant critical medical countermeasures in the Union as a whole to address serious cross-border threats to health as referred to in Article 2; emergency research and innovation; the management of the plan; and support to Member States for the monitoring of the impact of a serious cross-border threat to health on the provision and continuity of healthcare services, including for other diseases and conditions during health emergencies.

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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.