The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached today between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) - one of the central building blocks of a strong European Health Union. The rules proposed by the Commission in May 2022 have two main aims:

• To put citizens at the centre of healthcare, giving them full control over their data to obtain better healthcare across the EU;
• To open up data for research and public health uses.