7 Amendments of Stéphane BIJOUX related to 2020/0102(COD)
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) While Member States are responsible for their health policies, they are expected to protect public health in a spirit of European solidarity8. Experience from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that there is a need for a further firm action at Union level to support cooperation and coordination among the Member States in order to improve the prevention and control of the spread of severe human diseases across borders, to combat other serious cross- border threats to health and to safeguard the health and well-being of people in the Union, regardless of where they are located, so that no one is overlooked. __________________ 8 Communication to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Eurogroup on coordinated economic response to the COVID-19 outbreak, COM(2020)112 final of 13.03.2020.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Due to the serious nature of cross- border health threats, the Programme should support coordinated public health measures at Union level to address different aspects of such threats. With a view to strengthening the capability in the Union to prepare for, respond to and manage health crisis the Programme should provide support to the actions taken in the framework of the mechanisms and structures established under Decision No 1082/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council10 and other relevant mechanisms and structures established at Union level. This could include strategic stockpiling of essential medical supplies or capacity building in crisis response, preventive measures related to vaccination and immunisation, strengthened surveillance programmes. In this context the Programme should foster Union-wide, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories, and cross-sectoral crisis prevention, preparedness, surveillance, management and response capacity of actors at the Union, national, regional and local level, including contingency planning and preparedness exercises, in keeping with the ‘One Health’ approach. It should facilitate the setting up of an integrated cross-cutting risk communication framework working in all phases of a health crisis - prevention, preparedness and response. __________________ 10Decision No 1082/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 2119/98/EC (OJ L 293, 5.11.2013, p. 1).
Amendment 467 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) improve the availability in the Union, especially in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories, of medicines, medical devices and other crisis relevant products, contribute to their affordability, and support innovation;
Amendment 669 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point b
Annex I – point b
(b) Transfer, adaptation and roll-out of best practices and innovative solutions with established Union level added-value between Member States or regions, and country- specific tailor made support to regions or countries, or groups of regions or countries, with the highest needs, through the funding of specific projects including twinning, expert advice and peer support.
Amendment 754 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point e – point v
Annex I – point e – point v
(v) Establishment and operation of a Union reserve of medical and healthcare staff and experts and of a mechanism to deploy such staff and experts as necessary to prevent or respond to a health crisis throughout the Union, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; establishment and operation of a Union Health Emergency team to provide expert advice and technical assistance on request by the Commission in the case of a health crisis.
Amendment 803 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point g – point iii
Annex I – point g – point iii
(iii) Support to improve the geographical distribution of healthcare workforce and avoidance of ‘medical deserts’, paying special attention to the EU’s outermost regions;
Amendment 1016 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point k a (new)
Annex I – point k a (new)
(ka) Specific support for the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories, in particular through: (i) Investment in health infrastructures and support for the procurement of new medical supplies; (ii) Establishment and management of reserves of products needed during crises so that the EU’s action can be deployed from those territories; (iii) Support for research, drug development, treatments, and measures to provide information on, and raise awareness of, tropical diseases, but also the diseases that particularly affect those territories, especially diabetes and obesity; (iv) Establishment of specific strategies for repatriation to continental Europe in the case of a major health crisis; (v) Support for better understanding, assessment, use and appreciation of endemic medicinal plants and the therapeutic potential of biodiversity.