Recital 21

(21) Prevention is one of the essential steps in the crisis management cycle, according to the WHO. Under the four categories of prevention that have been recognised at the international level, namely primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary categories, a number of activities constitute a cornerstone for early warning of, monitoring and combatting serious cross-border threats to health. Those activities include the monitoring of vaccination coverage for communicable diseases, surveillance systems for the prevention of communicable diseases and measures to decrease the risk of communicable disease spreading at the personal and community levels, in line with the One Health approach. Investment in prevention activities in relation to serious cross-border threats to health would directly contribute to the objectives of this Regulation. The term ‘prevention’ or ‘disease prevention’ under this Regulation should therefore be understood as covering prevention activities which aim to minimise the burden of communicable diseases and associated risk factors for the purposes of early warning of, monitoring and combatting serious cross-border threats to health.

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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.