communicable diseasemeans a communicable disease as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
competent bodymeans any structure, institute, agent or other scientific body recognised by Member States’ authorities as providing independent scientific and technical advice or capacity for action in the field of the prevention and control of human disease;
coordinating competent bodymeans a body in each Member State with a designated national coordinator responsible for institutional contacts with the Centre, as well as national focal points and operational contact points responsible for strategic and operational collaboration on scientific and technical issues for specific disease areas and public health functions;
dedicated networkmeans any specific network on diseases, related special health issues or public health functions that is supported and coordinated by the Centre and is intended to ensure collaboration between the coordinating competent bodies of the Member States;
epidemiological surveillancemeans epidemiological surveillance as defined in Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;
health system capacitymeans health system capacity as defined in Article 3, point (13), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371.
monitoringmeans monitoring as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;
related special health issuesmeans related special health issues as referred to in Article 2(1), point (a)(ii), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;
serious cross-border threat to healthmeans a serious cross-border threat to health as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;