Viral Pathogens Working Group

The ERCC played a pivotal role in coordinating the EU response, holding regular coordination meetings of the EU Ebola Task Force, which brought together all relevant Commission departments (HQ and field), the European External Action Service, EU Delegations, EU Member States, UN bodies and the EU’s humanitarian partners. Member States coordinated their activities within the EU in regular meetings of the Health Security Committee established under Decision 1082/13 on serious cross-border threats to health, based onrapid risk assessments prepared by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlActivation of the EU Civil Protection ...[+++] Mechanism enabled the swift coordinated deployment of emergency supplies and experts offered by Member States (more than 100 flights and 2 cargo ships).

The isolates shall represent the major group of viruses within the European Union, namely for VHSV one pathogenic isolate from rainbow trout in freshwater and one marine isolate pathogenic for turbot, and for IHNV one rainbow trout pathogenic strain from the European Union.

Clause 33 no longer requires security screening for persons working with Risk Group 2 pathogens, such as salmonella, while retaining the requirement for those in higher risk groups.

I refer to the human pathogens and toxins act, Bill C-11, the potential treatment of facilities with risk group 2 human pathogens under the program and regulatory framework.