On 15 June, the European Commission presented an early communication on the lessons learned from the pandemic. The communication includes 10 lessons and recommendations to make Europe stronger and continue to lead on the global health scale. This means an annual State of Preparedness Report to monitor the situation closely, the appointment of a European Chief Epidemiologist to facilitate policy decisions and a global surveillance system to detect health risks faster using comparable data.

Next to this, the Commission wants the European Health Union to be adopted before the end of the year, whereas the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) should be operational by early 2022 and the Health Important Project of Common European Interest as soon as possible. An EU platform for multi-centre clinical trials should make clinical research faster, broader and more effective.

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