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Our guiding principles

Transparency and independence

As stated in its Founding Regulation, “the confidence of the Community institutions, the general public and interested parties in ECDC is essential. For this reason, it is vital to ensure its independence, high scientific quality, transparency and efficie

Open access for scientific content

All outputs with scientific content produced by, or on behalf of, the Centre are published as open access.

Authorship

The ECDC authorship policy provides guidance for authors of written work produced by, or on behalf of ECDC, including for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Values

ECDC strives to be a quality-driven, service-minded organisation that acts as one team.