The European Commission will soon receive a mandate to negotiate, on behalf of the EU, a WHO international agreement on ‘Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response’.
The EU27 Ambassadors to the EU (Coreper), meeting in Brussels on 23 February, gave their unanimous green light to the draft EU Council decision on this mandate for the conclusion of such an agreement and the negotiation of complementary amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).
They stressed that the...