3 Amendments of Alexandr VONDRA related to 2021/2124(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Observes that the mission of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (the 'Centre') is to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health from communicable diseases; emphasises that the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent pandemic in 2020 was the most serious public health event that the Centre has had to respond to since it became operational in 2005, and that supporting the Union's response to COVID-19 became its principal activity; notes, moreover, that the Centre started operating at Public Health Event (PHE) level 2, acute phase on 31 January 2020 and continued to operate in this phase for the remainder of the year;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that the Centre gave assistance to Member States and the Commission with laboratory-related support and expanded testing, strengthening Member States' preparedness through the establishment of operational indicators and support in the assessment of health services surge capacity;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the 24 COVID-19 related risk assessments carried out by the Centre, the 159 COVID-19 formal scientific requests from the Commission and Members of the European Parliament, and the more than 100 formal scientific requests from Member States; furthermore notes that the number of downloads of rapid risk assessments increased by 1086 percent when compared with 2019 figures;