EU Legislation for Communicable Diseases Surveillance

Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European centre for disease prevention and control.

Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 1998 setting up a network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the Community (Amendment: Decision 2000/96/EC, entry into force 03/02/2000) (This decision will be repealed once the new cross border health proposal is signed)

Resolution of the Council and the Ministers for health of the Member States meeting within the Council of 13 November 1992 on the monitoring and surveillance of communicable diseases

Decision 2000/57/EC on the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4016)

Decision 2000/96/EC on the communicable diseases to be progressively covered by the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4015)

Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2002) 1043)

Decision 2003/534/EC amending Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision 2000/96/EC as regards communicable diseases listed in those decisions and amending Decision 2002/253/EC as regards the case definitions for communicable diseases (notified under document number C(2003) 2301)

Decision 2003/542/EC amending Decision 2000/96/EC as regards the operation of dedicated surveillance networks (notified under document number C(2003) 2522)

Decision 2008/351/EC amending Decision 2000/57/EC as regards events to be reported within the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases (notified under document number C(2008) 1574)

Decision 2009/363/EC amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions fr reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2009) 3517)

Commission Decision 2008/426/EC of 28 April 2008 amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2008) 1589)