On Tuesday, 22 June, the EU Council’s Working Party on Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices studied a new compromise text concerning the revision of the regulation establishing the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
An initial draft compromise had been examined in the working party in early May (see EUROPE B12718A3). In that text, there was notably a question of whether the “EU Health Task Force” (the assistance team in the event of an epidemic), which...