International health regulations

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The International Health Regulations (IHR) ( English International Health Regulations (IHR) ) are international law binding regulations of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The purpose and scope of the IHR is “to prevent and control the transboundary spread of diseases, to protect against it and to take health protection measures against it, in a manner which is appropriate and limited to the dangers to public health avoids unnecessary impairment of international traffic and trade ”(Art. 2 IGV).

They were signed in Boston on July 25, 1969 and came into force on January 1, 1971. They go back to the International Sanitary Convention (Venice, 1892). On May 23, 2005 they were amended by the 58th World Health Assembly in Geneva in view of the increasing globalization and international spread of infectious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The new version came into force on June 15, 2007.

The regulations regulate the reporting of states to the WHO, their implementation in the member states, the restriction of sanitary measures against travelers, the measures for freight transport, individual procedures in the case of plague , cholera and yellow fever , as well as ID cards and the collection of fees. According to Art. 12, the health emergency can be proclaimed of international scope .

Germany

With the approval of the Bundesrat, the Bundestag approved the International Health Regulations (2005) (IGV) by law of July 20, 2007. On March 29, 2013, the Law Implementing the International Health Regulations (2005) came into force.

The national IGV contact point responsible according to Art. 4 Para. 1 IGV has been the Joint Reporting and Situation Center in Bonn since June 2010 (Section 3 Law for the Implementation of the International Health Regulations), which cooperates closely with the Robert Koch Institute .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Health Regulations. World Health Organization , Regional Office for Europe, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ International Health Regulations (2005) / International Health Regulations (2005) in an official German translation, Federal Law Gazette II p. 930 938
  3. ↑ The International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization rki.de, accessed on March 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ Law on the International Health Regulations (2005) (IGV) of 23 May 2005, Federal Law Gazette II p. 930
  5. ↑ Law for the Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) and for the amendment of other laws of March 21, 2013, Federal Law Gazette I p. 566