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1. The Commission may organise training activities, in close cooperation with the relevant Union agencies and bodies and professional health organisations and patient organisations, for healthcare staff, social service staff and public health staff in the Member States, in particular interdisciplinary One Health training, including on preparedness capacities under the IHR. The Commission shall organise those activities in cooperation with the Member States concerned, as well as with the ECDC, in particular the EU Health Task Force, and in coordination, where possible, with the WHO. The Commission shall make the fullest use of the potential of distance learning to increase the number of trainees. In cross-border regions, joint cross-border training, sharing of best practices and familiarity with public health systems for healthcare staff and public health staff shall be promoted.

2. The training activities referred to in paragraph 1 shall aim to provide staff referred to in that paragraph with the knowledge and skills necessary, in particular, to develop and implement the national prevention, preparedness and response plans, and implement activities to strengthen crisis preparedness and surveillance capacities, especially regarding the gaps identified, including in relation to the use of digital tools, and shall be consistent with the One Health approach.

3. The training activities referred to in paragraph 1 may be open to staff of the competent authorities of third countries and may be organised outside the Union in coordination, where possible, with ECDC activities in this area.

4. Bodies whose staff participate in the training activities referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure that the knowledge acquired through those activities is disseminated as necessary and is appropriately used in the staff training activities they organise.

5. The Commission and relevant Union agencies and bodies may support the organisation of programmes, in cooperation with the Member States and Union candidate countries, for the exchange of healthcare staff and public health staff, as well as for the temporary secondment of staff between Member States, Union candidate countries or Union agencies and bodies. In organising those programmes, account shall be taken of the contribution made by professional health organisations in each of the Member States.

6. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, lay down rules on the organisation of the training activities referred to in paragraph 1, and of the programmes referred to in paragraph 5. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 29(2).