9 Amendments of María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS related to 2020/0322(COD)
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) To this end, Member States should provide the Commission with an update on the latest situation with regard to their preparedness and response planning and implementation at national level, including information on their strategic stockpiles and medical countermeasures available. Information provided by the Member States should include the elements that Member States are obliged to report to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the context of the International Health Regulations (IHR)15 . In turn, the Commission should report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the state of play and progress with preparedness, response planning and implementation at Union level, including on corrective actions, every 2 years to ensure that national preparedness and response plans are adequate. In order to support the assessment of these plans, EU audits in Member States should be conducted, in coordination with the ECDC and Union agencies. Such planning should include in particular adequate preparedness of critical long-term healthcare and critical sectors of society, such as energy, transport, communication or civil protection, which rely, in a crisis situation, on well-prepared gender-sensitive public health systems that are also in turn dependent on the functioning of those sectors and on maintenance of essential services at an adequate level. In the event of a serious cross-border threat to health originating from a zoonotic infection, it is important to ensure the interoperability between health and veterinary sectors for preparedness and response planning. _________________ 15World Health Organization. International Health Regulation (IHR, 2005) https://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789 241596664/en/
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) The role of frontline health professionals has also become apparent during the pandemic as they have been key to ensuring access to medicine and continuity of care, providing moral support and being a source of trusted information against false information,. For future emergencies, it is necessary to strengthen health professionals by laying down rules to provide training for workers in the fields of health care and public health. It is also necessary to integrate them through their professional organisations in the definition of public health policies as well as in the digital transformation in order to improve the quality and efficiency of health systems and ensure their sustainability for health, social and territorial cohesion work they carry out.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In case of cross-border health threats due to a communicable disease, the blood and transplant services, pharmacies and other licensed health care establishments in the Member States can provide a means for rapid testing of the donor population and assessing exposure to and immunity from the disease in the general population. These services in return are dependent on rapid risk assessments by the ECDC to safeguard patients, in need of a therapy from a substance of human origin, from a transmission of such communicable disease. Such risk assessment serves then as basis to allow for the appropriate adaptation of measures setting standards for quality and safety of such substances of human origin. The ECDC should therefore set up and operate a network of national blood and transplant services and their authorities, as well as pharmacy services and other licensed health services and establishments, to serve this dual purpose.
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) In order to improve early preparedness and response to the emergence of cross-border health threats, it is crucial to enable continuous and rapid access to data on the availability of the necessary medical countermeasures Therefore, a network of Member States' services providing up-to-date information on national strategic stockpiles and the availability of medical countermeasures, stockpiles of medical products, essential health products and diagnostic tests should be established, operated and coordinated by the ECDC. Strengthening coordination and information with Member States on strategic stockpiles and medical countermeasures available is necessary to enhance the collection, modelling and use of prospective data that allows early alert notifications in the EU.
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) a network of national strategic stockpiles and medical countermeasures available;
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – point i a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b – point i a (new)
(i a) strategic stockpile: including information on the volumes and availability of medical countermeasures and other essential medical products and devices, which shall be limited to those provided by accredited medical suppliers included in the European register referred to in Article 14 paragraph 2, as well as on the capacity for their safekeeping and storage.
Amendment 430 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 5
Article 11 – paragraph 5
5. The Commission may support organising programmes, in cooperation with the Member States, for the exchange of healthcare staff and public health staff between two or more Member States and for the temporary secondment of staff from one Member State to the other. In organising these programmes, account shall be taken of the contribution made by professional health organisations in each of the Member States.
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
(i a) contribute to the improvement of coordinated surveillance at the different levels of care, enhancing common working models for all health professionals and enhancing their involvement, including through the collaboration of health professional organisations.
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. The ECDC shall ensure the further development of the digital platform through which data are managed and automatically exchanged, to establish integrated and interoperable surveillance systems enabling real-time surveillance where appropriate, and to regularly monitor information on medical countermeasures available in the EU in collaboration with the Member States, for the purpose of supporting communicable disease prevention and control.