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СТАНОВИЩЕ (2026/0196(BUD))

Общ бюджет на Европейския съюз за финансовата 2027 година – всички раздели

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Комисия по обществено здраве · Rapporteur: Михалис Хаджипандела

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The Committee on Public Health asks the Committee on Budgets to include its suggestions in the 2027 EU budget resolution. It wants the 2027 budget to focus on public health added value, health security, prevention, digital health, critical medicines and health workforce. It calls for public health to be treated as a strategic autonomy, security, social cohesion and competitiveness priority, with better access to care in underserved areas and cross-border healthcare. It asks for external health spending on preparedness, surveillance and resilient partner-country health systems, and for funding for medical evacuations and treatment of patients from conflict zones. It notes with concern that EU4Health commitments fall from 687.9 million EUR in 2026 to 635.3 million EUR in 2027 and calls for an increase, including for critical medicines and medical devices. It calls for coordination between EU4Health, ESF+, Erasmus+ and cohesion funding on health workforce shortages, and for cohesion funds to close territorial gaps in access to healthcare. It asks the Commission to deliver on the 20% prevention commitment, to ensure multiannual actions continue after 2027, and to support health civil society organisations and patient organisations.

Committee position. The Committee on Public Health calls on the Committee on Budgets to incorporate its suggestions into the motion for a resolution. It proposes focusing the 2027 budget on public health added value, increasing EU4Health funding, and strengthening prevention, health workforce, critical medicines and cross-border care.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission, Member States and stakeholders to focus the 2027 budget on EU added value in public health, including health security, prevention, cancer, rare diseases, mental health, digital health, critical medicines and antimicrobial resistance.
  2. Calls for public health to be treated as a strategic autonomy, security, social cohesion and competitiveness priority, with investment in access to care in underserved areas and interoperable cross-border digital tools including AI and the European Health Data Space.
  3. Stresses that external health spending should target preparedness, surveillance and resilient partner-country health systems, and calls for funding for medical evacuations and treatment within the Union of patients from conflict zones.
  4. Notes that EU4Health commitments decrease from 687.9 million EUR in 2026 to 635.3 million EUR in 2027, a reduction of around 7.6%, and calls on the EU institutions to increase the draft allocation.
  5. Calls for dedicated EU4Health actions on critical medicines and medical devices, including support for EU-based manufacturing, voluntary collaborative procurement, strategic reserves and transparency on supply chains.
  6. Calls for stronger coordination between EU4Health, ESF+, Erasmus+ and cohesion funding to address health workforce shortages through training, upskilling and retention, with clear key performance indicators.
  7. Calls for cohesion funds to close territorial gaps in access to healthcare and to upgrade hospitals, emergency-first responder networks and health and digital infrastructure in less developed, rural and hard-to-reach areas.
  8. Recalls that Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2021/522 reserves a minimum of 20% of the programme's total envelope for health promotion and disease prevention, and calls on the Commission to deliver on this in the 2027 annual work programme.
  9. Notes that 2027 is the final year of EU4Health as a standalone instrument and calls on the Commission to ensure multiannual actions, including European Reference Networks, joint actions, HERA's medical countermeasures and the European Health Data Space, continue without funding gaps.
  10. Stresses continued participation of health civil society organisations and patient organisations, and calls for future support, including possible reintroduction of operating grants in the 2027 Work Programme, based on clear criteria.
  11. Encourages additional resources through InvestEU, STEP and Digital Europe, and stresses transparent, result-oriented spending on mental health, digital health, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic and non-communicable diseases, primary care and the health workforce.
  12. Calls for dedicated funding to combat antimicrobial resistance under the One Health approach, including research, surveillance, laboratories and infection prevention, and for funding for disease prevention and health promotion measures such as defibrillators and drinking-water fountains in schools.

Who is affected

  • The Commission, Member States and relevant stakeholders, who are asked to focus the 2027 budget on public health priorities.
  • Patients, particularly transplant patients, patients with rare diseases and complex conditions, and children, who should benefit from cross-border care and reduced inequalities.
  • Health professionals, who should benefit from training, upskilling, retention measures and voluntary mobility without worsening shortages.
  • Health civil society organisations and patient organisations, whose continued participation and possible operating grants are supported.
  • ECDC and EMA, which should receive resources commensurate with their expanded mandates and undergo a staffing and capability review.

Figures and deadlines

  • 687.9 million EUR, EU4Health commitments in 2026.
  • 635.3 million EUR, EU4Health commitments in 2027.
  • around 7.6%, reduction in EU4Health commitments from 2026 to 2027.
  • close to EUR 1 billion, reduction of the programme's overall envelope in the 2024 revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework.
  • minimum of 20% of the programme's total envelope reserved for health promotion and disease prevention under Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2021/522.
  • EUR 661.3 million in 2026 and EUR 606 million in 2027, EU4Health commitments cited in the call for restoration to at least the 2026 level.
  • over 8%, reduction in EU4Health commitments from 2026 to 2027.

Legal basis: Article 168 of the Treaties