Following the lessons learned from the pandemic and as a&nbsp;part of&nbsp;building a European Health Union, the Commission proposed a new health security framework on 11 November 2020. The package includes three pieces of legislation: a&nbsp;stronger role for the European Medicines Agency,&nbsp;extending the mandate of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control&nbsp;and a&nbsp;proposal for a regulation on serious cross-border threats to health.

The new legislation aims to strengthen the EU’s capacity to prevent, prepare for and manage communicable diseases outbreaks.The ECDC will cooperate with the European Commission, national authorities, EU bodies and international organisations to ensure their respective activities are consistent and complement each other.&nbsp;

The new rules concerning cross-border threats include improved prevention, preparedness and response planning at EU and national levels. The Commission will be able to formally recognise a public health emergency at EU level, which would trigger stronger intra-EU cooperation and allow for the timely development and stockpiling of medical countermeasures.

EU countries hold primary responsibility for organising and delivering health services and medical care. EU health policy therefore serves to complement national policies, and to ensure health protection in all EU policies.&nbsp; EU policies and actions in public health aim to protect and improve the health of EU citizens, support the modernisation of health infrastructure, improve the efficiency of Europe's health systems.

The Committee for Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety ENVI is Parliament’s main actor on health matters and is responsible for over 10% of Parliament´s total legislative activity.

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EP Plenary Session - A Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe

Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe: opening statements by Dolors MONTSERRAT (EPP, ES), rapporteur and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

A Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe: MEPs debate

A Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe: closing statements by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe: extract from the votes and statement by Dolors MONTSERRAT (EPP, ES), rapporteur - ENVI

EP Plenary session - EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crisis and the role of the European Parliament in this

EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: closing statement by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and by by Gašper DOVŽAN, Slovenian State Secretary of Foreign Affairs

EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: opening statements by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and by Gašper DOVŽAN, Slovenian State Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Reinforced role for the European Medicines Agency: vote in ENVI Committee and statement by Nicolás GONZÁLEZ CASARES (S&D, ES), rapporteur

EP Plenary session - Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA)

EP Plenary session - The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector

EP Plenary session - World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health

World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health

EP Plenary session Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA)

World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health: closing statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of promoting our European Way of Life

World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health: MEPs debate (part 2)

World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health: MEPs debate (part 1)

World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health: opening statement by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of promoting our European Way of Life

Voting Session - Part 1

EPRS - The European health union: Safeguarding EU citizens’ health

Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe: closing statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe: MEPs debate

Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe: opening statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

EPRS - Care work in the EU: Working in the care work sector

EPRS - Care work in the EU : The care penalty

EPRS - 5 facts about rare diseases

Mental health: closing statements by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and by Ivan BARTOŠ, Czech Deputy Prime Minister

Mental health: MEPs debate

Mental health: opening statements by Ivan BARTOŠ, Czech Deputy Prime Minister and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

European Health Union: extracts from the joint debate, the vote and statement by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), rapporteur

European Health Union: closing statements by Joanna KOPCIŃSKA (ECR, PL), Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteurs and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health

European Health Union: MEPs debate

Joint Debate - European Health Union: opening statements by Joanna KOPCIŃSKA (ECR, PL), Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteurs and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health

EPRS - Fighting antibiotic resistance

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