Recital 12

(12) Member States should provide the Commission with an update on the latest situation with regard to their prevention, preparedness and response planning and implementation at national level, and where applicable at regional level. Information provided by the Member States to the Commission should include the elements that Member States are obliged to report to the WHO in the context of the IHR. Access to timely and complete data is a precondition for prompt risk assessments and crisis mitigation. To avoid duplication of efforts and diverging recommendations, standardised definitions, where possible, and a secured network are needed between Union agencies and bodies, the WHO and national competent authorities. In turn, the Commission should report to the European Parliament and to the Council, every three years, on the state of play and progress with regard to prevention, preparedness, response planning and implementation at Union level, including on recommended actions, to ensure that national prevention, preparedness and response plans are adequate. In order to support the assessment of those plans, the ECDC should conduct assessments in Member States, in coordination with other Union agencies and bodies. Such planning should include, in particular, adequate preparedness of critical sectors of society, such as agriculture, energy, transport, communication or civil protection, which rely, in a crisis situation, on well-prepared gender-sensitive public health systems that are also in turn dependent on the functioning of those sectors and on maintenance of essential services at an adequate level. In the event of a serious cross-border threat to health originating from a zoonotic infection, it is important to ensure the interoperability between the health and veterinary sectors for prevention, preparedness and response planning through the One Health approach. The obligations of Member States to provide information under this Regulation do not affect the application of Article 346 (1), point (a), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) pursuant to which no Member State is obliged to supply information the disclosure of which it considers contrary to the essential interests of its security.

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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.