1 Amendments of Monika BEŇOVÁ related to 2021/2124(DEC)
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Draft opinion
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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; recognises that the Centre activated its public health event operations plan on 9 January 2020 and, specifically, that teams working on public health emergencies contibuted positively to the Union and national governance frameworks for the COVID-19 pandemic;