Traduction de «exercice d'alerte » (Français → Anglais) :

17. Welcomes the monitoring group exercise conducted by its Committee on Budgets in the course of 2007; hopes that this exercise can continue to contribute to an enhanced level of budgetary monitoring; continues to support the Budget Forecast Alert (BFA) system as a contribution to improving budget implementation; requests that the second BFA document be presented in September, and not October, 2008 so that Parliament may take this document into account in preparing its first reading on the 2009 draft budget;

All participants identified the need for similar exercises in future which should include the lessons learned from previous exercises; There were some obvious examples of coordination efforts by the Commission and ECDC during the exercise, particularly the holding of audioconferences which helped immediate issues, the ECDC set up a helpful web site and the Commission provided reporting forms which would be useful in a real crisis; The Commission’s Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) is a robust system for the purpose for which ...[+++]is was intended and was used extensively.

The Commission has started to work on the enhancement of its crisis-management tools, such as a situation-awareness platforms for decision makers known as HEDIS (Health Emergency and Diseases Information System) and its existing Early Warning and Response System; The Commission has set up its interdepartmental crisis coordination unit which would become operational in the event of a crisis such as a pandemic; Commissioner Kyprianou is liaising between Member States and the pharmaceutical industry on questions relating to the production, distribution and supply of antivirals and vaccines; Following the informal Health Council meeting in Vienna on February 24 , the Commission and ECDC are now coordinating a network of Member States’ press ...[+++] officers, in order to ensure the communication of clear and accurate messages to the public throughout Europe; Pandemic preparedness plans will be reviewed again at a meeting of the Commission, Member States and WHO hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm on 3 May and follow-up by Member States of lessons learned during the exercise will be discussed in June; Workshops to share best practice on issues such as public health interventions, business continuity planning, border controls and quarantine will be held; The Commission will start improving the coordination mechanism through training and role play between involved bodies and plans to run further exercises.

The exercise involved crisis rooms in national Health ministries and agencies, linked up through early warning and monitoring secure systems.

National provisions, in particular emergency plans (Article 5 of Directive 90/423/EC) drawn up on the basis of criteria laid down, and validated and monitored by the Commission, as well as sets of other instruments (epidemiological surveys; virus diffusion models; public awareness and information campaigns and training sessions; real-situation emergency exercises) provide further strategic and operational means of combating FMD in the Member States.

We will have the drills on those contingency plans completed by the end of the third quarter.