At the request of Commissioner Kyprianou ECDC has prepared a comprehensive report on the level of pandemic preparedness in the European Union and EEA as of early autumn 2007.

This is based on:

Results of survey of preparedness indicators from 30 EU and EEA member states (September 2007)
Recent national self-assessment visits to EU and EEA Member
What was reported at the 4th European Pandemic Preparedness Workshop (September 25th-17th 2007)organised by the European Commission (C3 Health Threats Unit) with ECDC and WHO’s European Regional Office

The Report updates and expands on an earlier report on preparedness status in the Autumn of 2006

The 2007 Report is available in two versions:

a concise Report for Policymakers looking both at what more needs to be done and what broadly has been achieved since the First European workshop
the Communication from the European Commission and WHO’s new planning guidance in 2005
a fuller Technical Report which in particular give indications of what further work countries are reporting needs to be done in the next few years.

An article concerning these reports also appears in Eurosurveillance

ECDC has also published a document highlighting a selection of the many innovations and good practises in pandemic preparedness that were presented by the EU during the 4th joint EC/ECDC/WHO regional workshop on pandemic preparedness in Luxembourg in September 2007. More details of some of these are also available on the ECDC Pandemic Preparedness Innovation Pages.

Full text Report
Annex 1 - Results of survey of preparedness indicators from 30 EU and EEA member states (September 2007)
Annex 2 - Major contributors to the pandemic self-assessments 2005–07
Annex 3 - Consolidated recommendations given for Member States - work remaining to be done

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