ECDC Country Support Strategy

Europe’s defences against communicable diseases is not stronger than its weakest links. While the Member States have the responsibility to ensure sufficient national preparedness and response capacities to prevent and control national health threats due to communicable diseases, ECDC has an important complementary role to support the efforts of the Commission and the Member States to ensure that capacities are adequate to meet the needs, especially by providing an EU dimension in addressing health threats of a potential cross-border importance.