2021/2124(DEC) 2020 discharge: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Lead committee dossier:
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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP) | CHINNICI Caterina ( S&D), CSEH Katalin ( Renew), EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim ( ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR), OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | ENVI | CANFIN Pascal ( Renew) | Monika BEŇOVÁ ( S&D), Kateřina KONEČNÁ ( GUE/NGL), Ljudmila NOVAK ( PPE), Michèle RIVASI ( Verts/ALE), Alexandr VONDRA ( ECR) |
Lead committee dossier:
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2021/09/29
EP - CANFIN Pascal (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2021/09/14
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/07/28
EP - ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2021/06/30
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2021/06/30
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
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2021/2124(DEC)
2021/12/08
ENVI
12 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion 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; 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;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9 b. Highlights the fact that growing antimicrobial resistance still poses a threat to public health, despite the fact that overall EU consumption of antimicrobials has continued to decline; welcomes the Centre's continued activity in this area;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 c (new) Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 d (new) 9 d. Acknowledges the reasons for the cancellation or postponement of 35% of the Centre's planned outputs in 2020, while highlighting the fact that the Centre achieved a 90% success rate in meeting the work programme output plan adopted additionally in May 2020; thanks its staff for their dedicated work in difficult circumstances;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion 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) 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 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;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Highlights the
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Welcomes the proposal to extend the Centre’s mandate but expresses concern that the addition of new tasks and its increasing workload has not been accompanied by sufficient corresponding increases in the Centre's staff and resources, and that such a shortage of staff puts the continuity of its operations under significant pressure and threatens the quality of the Centre’s work;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the improvement in the percentage of management board members, advisory forum members and their alternates submitting the required annual declarations of interest in 2020 compared to the figures for 2019; calls on the Centre to ensure that
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Stresses the need for the Centre to ensure full transparency in publishing scientific studies and in enhancing its external communications capacity towards the general public, ensuring that all key information related to public health emergencies is available in all Union languages and easily accessible to Union citizens;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Welcomes the Commission's proposal to expand the Centre's remit in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; expresses its belief that a rapid, effective, informed and coordinated response across Member States is essential, both to deal with the current situation and to address possible future threats;
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