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On 2 March, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, will announce the winners of the 2020 EU Health Award. On 3 March, the meeting will be devoted to the 2020 Thematic Networks.

The EU Health Security Committee agreed on a common list of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, a selection of rapid antigen tests for which Member States will mutually recognise their results, and a common standardised set of data to be included in COVID-19 test result certificates.

The Commission is proposing immediate action to prepare Europe for the increased threat of coronavirus variants, launching the new European bio-defence preparedness plan against COVID-19 variants called “HERA Incubator”.

The study aims to highlight possible differences and identify elements that might affect the cross-border exchange of health data in the EU for healthcare or for research, innovation and policy-making, and examine the potential for EU level action to support health data use and re-use.