Recital 43

(43) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission in relation to: templates to be used when providing the information on preparedness and response planning; the organisation of the training activities and programmes for healthcare and public health staff; the establishment and updating of a list of communicable diseases and related special health issues subject to the network of epidemiological surveillance and the procedures for the operation of such a network; the adoption of case definitions for those communicable diseases and special health issues covered by the epidemiological surveillance network and, where necessary, for other serious cross-border threats to health subject to ad hoc monitoring; the functioning of the digital platform for surveillance; the designation of EU reference laboratories to provide support to national reference laboratories; the procedures for the information exchange, for consultation with Member States and for coordination of the responses of the Member States; the recognition of public health emergencies at Union level and the termination of such a recognition; the procedures for the interlinking of the EWRS with contact-tracing systems and the procedures necessary to ensure that the processing of data is in accordance with the data protection legislation.

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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.