The Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) was established on 16 September 2021 ‘’to strengthen Europe’s ability to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to cross-border health emergencies, by ensuring the development, manufacturing, procurement, and distribution of key medical countermeasures (MCMs)’’.
The core mission of HERA is to support the Commission’s priorities for public health, preparedness, and crisis management in the sectors of health, research and innovation and industry as regard the supply of medical countermeasures. HERA’s activities are shaped by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and principally linked to Articles 168 (public health) and 122 (legal basis for adopting temporary measures in a crisis situation).