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Eligible actions The following actions may be financed in case of pandemics with large‐scale effect:

(a) temporary reinforcement of the medical workforce, exchange of medical professionals, hosting foreign patients or other type of mutual support;

(b) deployment of temporary healthcare facilities and temporary extension of existing healthcare facilities to relieve pressure on existing structures and increase overall healthcare capacity;

(c) activities to support the administration of large‐scale application of medical tests and prepare the necessary scientific testing strategies and protocols;

(d) setting up temporary quarantine facilities and other appropriate measures at the Union borders;

(e) development, production or purchase and distribution of medical products;

(f) increases and conversions of production capacities for medical products as referred to in point (e) to address supply shortages;

(g) maintenance of the stock of medical products as referred to in point (e) and their disposal;

(h) actions to support the necessary steps to obtain approval for the use of the medical products as referred to in point (e) if required;

(i) actions to develop appropriate methods to track the development of the pandemic and the results of measures implemented to address it;

(j) organisation of ad‐hoc clinical trials of potential therapies or diagnostics according to trial standards agreed at Union level;

(k) scientific validation of medical products, including potential new testing methods. The above list is not exhaustive.