The meeting of EU health ministers began on Tuesday 7 December with a discussion of the draft EU Council Regulation on the common management of medical countermeasures in the event of a cross-border health crisis (see EUROPE B12832A19).
This text - which should make it possible to urgently activate common mechanisms for the inventory, supply, purchase or manufacture of medical countermeasures - was the subject of a simple exchange of views. Many delegations felt that the latest compromise...