Subject: For information: updates from EARS-Net
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:49:11 +0300

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To: National Focal Points for AMR, Operational Contact Points for AMR

Cc: National Coordinators (Coordinating Competent Body) and 
[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>

Dear Colleagues,

This information email contains updates from ECDC regarding EARS-Net.

Many thanks for all your efforts related to the EARS-Net data call earlier 
this year and for your review of the resulting draft ‘Antimicrobial 
resistance in the EU/EEA (EARS-Net) - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2024’.

EARS-Net Publications

On 13 October 2025, ECDC published an update of the ‘Surveillance Atlas of 
Infectious Diseases’. It includes the most recent EARS-Net results based on 
the data available in EpiPulse Cases, including the 2024 data. 
https://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx

Upcoming EARS-Net publications include:

1.	‘Antimicrobial resistance in the EU/EEA (EARS-Net) - Annual 
Epidemiological Report for 2024’, i.e. the EARS-Net AER 2024.
Its publication is planned for 18 November, on the European Antibiotic 
Awareness Day (EAAD; 18 November 2025). On 24 September 2025, 
[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>  emailed the draft 
EARS-Net AER to National Focal Points for AMR, asking for feedback at the 
latest on 1 October 2025. We carefully considered the feedback received and 
applied changes accordingly.
2.	AMR Summary for EAAD.
The current plan is that the text will be identical to the ‘Key facts’ 
section (a.k.a. the green box) of the EARS-Net AER 2024.
ECDC aims to email this under embargo before EAAD in early November, from 
<mailto:[email-masked]> [email-masked], to ECDC NFPs for 
Communication, as part of the EAAD media toolkit. The embargo will be lifted 
on 18 November 2025.
3.	‘Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Europe, 2024 data - 
Executive summary’.
ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe have scheduled joint publication 
of this document for 18 November, on EAAD 2025.
4.	‘External quality assessment (EQA) of performance of laboratories 
participating in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network 
(EARS-Net), 2024’.
This report is planned for publication ahead of EAAD 2025.

EARS-Net DNCC meeting minutes

Please find attached the final version of the minutes from the most recent 
EARS-Net DNCC meeting, 26–27 May 2025.

As always, for questions regarding EARS-Net, please email 
<mailto:[email-masked]> [email-masked].

Thank you for our ongoing collaboration!

Kind regards,

Hanna Merk

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Gustav III:s boulevard 40, 169 73 Solna, Sweden

Phone +46 (0)8 58 60 10 00

www.ecdc.europa.eu

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