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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘competent body’ means 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;

(2) ‘coordinating competent body’ means 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;

(3) ‘dedicated network’ means 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;

(4) ‘communicable disease’ means a communicable disease as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(5) ‘serious cross-border threat to health’ means a serious cross-border threat to health as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;

(6) ‘epidemiological surveillance’ means epidemiological surveillance as defined in Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;

(7) ‘related special health issues’ means related special health issues as referred to in Article 2(1), point (a)(ii), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;

(8) ‘monitoring’ means monitoring as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371;

(9) ‘health system capacity’ means health system capacity as defined in Article 3, point (13), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371.