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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Public Health, Cancer and Health security
Health Security
Luxembourg
SANTE.B.2/IK/tm (2022)7689782
Meeting of the Director-Generals for Health from EU/EEA countries
on the new Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health
24 October 2022
Brussels
AB / 2.C, Albert Borchette
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
AGENDA
24 October 2022
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Introduction of the new Regulation on serious cross-border threats to
health – DG SANTE
Tour de table – views from EU/EEA countries*
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 – 16:15 Initial thoughts about the Union prevention, preparedness and
response plan – DG SANTE
Tour de table – views from EU/EEA countries*
16:15 – 16:30 Closing of the meeting
*separate background document with questions for the discussion will be provided closer
to the event
Commission européenne, 2920 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG – Tel. +352 43011
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Public Health, Cancer and Health security
Health Security
Luxembourg
SANTE.B.2/IK/tm (2022)7689782
Meeting of the Director-Generals for Health from EU/EEA countries
on the new Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health
24 October 2022
Brussels
AB / 2.C, Albert Borchette
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
AGENDA
24 October 2022
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Introduction of the new Regulation on serious cross-border threats to
health – DG SANTE
Tour de table – views from EU/EEA countries*
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 – 16:15 Initial thoughts about the Union prevention, preparedness and
response plan – DG SANTE
Tour de table – views from EU/EEA countries*
16:15 – 16:30 Closing of the meeting
*separate background document with questions for the discussion will be provided closer
to the event
Commission européenne, 2920 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG – Tel. +352 43011
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Public Health, Cancer and Health security
Health Security
Luxembourg,
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached a letter from SANTE Director-General Sandra Gallina to the Directors-
General of Health in your national ministries.
I would be grateful if you could transmit this correspondence to the attention of the
Ministry at your best convenience.
Yours sincerely,
Ingrid KELLER
Electronically signed on 13/10/2022
Commission 13:18
européenne, (UTC+02)
2920 in accordance
Luxembourg, with Article 11
LUXEMBOURG of Commission
– Tel. +352 43011Decision (EU) 2021/2121
Saatja: Tiiu Noobel <
[email protected]>
Saadetud: 14.10.2022 16:36
Adressaat: SM Info <
[email protected]>; Elen Ohov <
[email protected]>
Koopia: Agne Nettan-Sepp Brüsselis <
[email protected]>
Teema: FW: Meeting of Directors-General of Member States' Ministries of
Health with Ms S. Gallina, DG of DG SANTE and Health Security unit –
Cross-border threats to health on 24 October 2022
Tähtsus: Kõrgeim
From: Kersti Neeme <
[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 14,
2022 2:43 PMTo: Tiiu Noobel <
[email protected]>Subject: FW:
Meeting of Directors-General of Member States' Ministries of Health with
Ms S. Gallina, DG of DG SANTE and Health Security unit Cross-border
threats to health on 24 October 2022Importance: High
From: Esindus EL juures üldaadress <> Sent: Friday, October 14,
2022 1:10 PMTo: Kersti Neeme <>Subject: FW: Meeting of Directors-
General of Member States' Ministries of Health with Ms S. Gallina, DG of
DG SANTE and Health Security unit Cross-border threats to health on 24
October 2022Importance: High
From: <> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 10:57 AMTo: Subject:
Meeting of Directors-General of Member States' Ministries of Health with
Ms S. Gallina, DG of DG SANTE and Health Security unit Cross-border
threats to health on 24 October 2022Importance: High
Dear Sir / Dear Madam,
On behalf of Ms Sandra Gallina, we are very pleased to invite the
Directors-General of national health ministries to a physical meeting New
Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health on Monday 24 October
2022 from 12:00 to 16:30 CEST in Brussels.
We kindly ask the permanent representations to forward this invitation to
the intended recipients in their respective health ministries.
Please inform the participants that they can confirm their attendance to
by 17 October 2022 in order to receive further updates.
The information with registration details to the meeting will follow
shortly.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
SANTE B2 Secretariat
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
The Director-General
Brussels
SANTE.DDG1.B.2/TM/tm (2022)7689782
NOTE TO THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES
TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Dear Sir / Dear Madam,
Subject: Meeting of Directors-General of Member States’ Ministries of Health
with Ms S. Gallina Director General of DG SANTE – new Regulation
on serious cross-border threats to health
Following the successful plenary meeting of the Health Security Committee (HSC) in
Luxembourg on 4/5 October 2022, I would like to continue the dialogue with EU
Member States/ EEA countries.
I hereby invite the Directors-General of national health ministries to a physical meeting
on Monday 24 October 2022 from 12:00 to 16:30 CEST in Brussels. In the meeting, I
would like to engage with the Directors-General in an open exchange of views on the
forthcoming implementation of the new Regulation on serious cross-border threats to
health that is awaiting its formal adoption by the Council and publication in the Official
Journal of the European Union.
The implementation of the new cross-border health threats Regulation is an
ambitious project that needs close cooperation and collaboration with the EU/EEA
countries, mainly in the area of the prevention, preparedness and response planning,
chiefly the Union preparedness, prevention and response plan to which national
preparedness plan would seek coherence to, but also the reporting on implementation of
the plans.
A background document with discussion points will follow in due course. I kindly ask
the permanent representations to forward this invitation to the intended recipients in their
respective health ministries. We kindly ask that participants confirm their attendance to
[email protected] by 17 October 2022 in order to receive further
updates.
I am looking forward the meeting.
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Sandra GALLINA
c.c.: Mr J-F. Ryan, Ms R. Keys, Ms I. Keller
ElectronicallyCommission
signed on 13/10/2022 13:18 (UTC+02)
européenne/Europese in accordance
Commissie, with Article 11 of Commission
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, Decision (EU)
BELGIQUE/BELGIË 2021/2121
- Tel. +32 22991111
E-mail :
[email protected]