Recital 2

(2) The experience gained has shown the need for a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency, in order to enable the Union to take measures that are necessary to ensure the sufficient and timely availability and supply of such countermeasures where that is appropriate to the economic situation. To that effect, this Regulation aims to establish an instrument of economic policy fundamental to avoid the adverse economic consequences of health crises, such as negative growth, unemployment, market disruptions, fragmentation of the internal market, and impediments to swift manufacturing – consequences which have been witnessed on a large scale in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – with a view to ultimately safeguarding the economic stability of the Union and of its Member States.

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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.