Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication: Copenhagen, Denmark, 7–8 September 2023

ABSTRACT

The thirty-seventh meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC), held on 7–8 September 2023, reviewed annual updates submitted by the Member States of the WHO European Region on the status of the national polio eradication programmes in 2022. The RCC concluded, based on available evidence, that there was no wild poliovirus transmission in the WHO European Region in 2022 and the events and outbreaks caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus were adequately managed. The RCC also concluded that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine remain at high risk of a sustained polio outbreak in the event of importation of wild poliovirus or the emergence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus primarily due to low population immunity.