Guidelines and standard operating procedures are operational tools to ensure that international public health alerts, caused by communicable diseases, and threatening the EU are investigated in an effective and coordinated manner.
Smernice in standardni operativni postopki so operativna orodja za zagotovitev, da se mednarodna opozorila v zvezi z javnim zdravjem zaradi nalezljivih bolezni, ki pomenijo nevarnost za EU, učinkovito in usklajeno raziščejo.