WP6 – Identifying and quantifying stockpiles for medical countermeasures
Work Package 6 aims to lay the groundwork for a structured and iterative approach to determine for which potential threats to public health emergency stockpiling can be the instrument of choice to ensure the availability of critical medical countermeasures during a public health crisis. By examining which policy objectives can be associated to a specific threat, an assessment can be made to determine which relevant critical MCM’s can be identified as well as their required volumes. The findings of the different tasks, as well as the inventory of best practices and approaches will be combined in a handbook and a tool for policy makers.
Tasks of the work package
- T6.1 Develop and innovate novel approaches to stockpiling as a tool to ensure availability of MCMs
- T6.2 Develop and innovate novel approaches to MCM quantification
- T6.3 Development of a preparedness plan for MCMs stockpiling defining roles and responsibilities of relevant actors across the EU on quantification the needs for stockpiling MCMs at EU-level and optimal composition of stockpiles across the EU
- T6.4 Development of a Handbook defining the stockpiles; objectives, main threat categories, product categories, quantities etc..
WP7 – Coordinated Layered Stockpiling System
The aim of Work Package 7 is to develop a coordinated, layered stockpiling framework that considers intertwined structures on European level and that is adaptable of (individual) needs of Member States.
The layered stockpiling framework, developed in WP7 will contribute to improve collaboration between participating countries and institutions when it comes to stockpiling for emergency situations.
Tasks of the work package
- T7.1 Mapping of stockpiling initiatives
- T7.2 Need analysis
- T7.3 Development framework for stockpiling
- T7.4 Validation and theoretical piloting of the framework
- T7.5 Recommendations on collaborations between EU and national stockpiles
- T7.6 Recommendations on collaborations between EU and non-EU country
WP8 – Sustainable stockpile management
Work Package 8 contains tasks aimed at improving the sustainability and management of stockpiles of crisis-relates medical countermeasures in anticipation of health crises like pandemics or CBRN events. Several difficulties have been identified and this WP8 will endeavor to analyse them and propose mitigating actions. The difficulties appear at all the steps of the life cycle of a stockpiled item: availability and procurement, overview and harmonization between stockpiles, expiration of shelf life during long-term storage, rotation and use outside of a crisis to avoid destruction at the end of shelf life. One workshop is planned per task.
Tasks of the work package
- T8.1 Strengthen EU production sovereignty for specific crisis-related items
- T8.2 Development of an IT tool to connect and consolidate data from decentralized stockpiles
- T8.3 Extension of shelf life
- T8.4 Rotation and Disposal of unused Stockpile MCMs
WP9 – Deployment and usage of MCMs in and outside the EU
Work Package 9 encompasses a set of tasks aimed at enhancing the coherence of national and Union stockpiling strategies, fostering strengthened collaboration, and optimizing the efficiency of MCM distribution and deployment. It seeks to ensure that stockpiling systems within the EU are operational, interoperable, and ready to deploy in times of crisis, both within EU MS and outside the EU. This will be achieved by addressing legislative and regulatory barriers and harmonising deployment and utilisation of stockpiling systems across EU MS.
Tasks of the work package
- 9.1 Identify the governance of deployment and define the optimal legislative framework for deployment and usage of MCMs
- 9.2 Standard operating Procedure (SOP)
- 9.3 T9.3 Solutions to ensure the transition between short term crisis and long-term crisis
- 9.4 Pilot MCM deployments