Le implicazioni istituzionali della pandemia da covid-19: verso un’"Europa della salute”?

The Union acts exclusively within the limits of the powers conferred on it in the Treaties, while the individual member States retain their decision-making autonomy in any other area. The health system and its organization falls within national competence, according to Art. 168 TFEU, which provides the European Union with a shared competence only for certain aspects of public health. This article aims to analyze the regulatory framework, as well as the actions of the EU insti- tutions, in the fight against the pandemic emergency, in particular through the analysis of the initiatives put in place, with regard to the vaccines, by the European Commission and the EMA.