The epidemiological situation makes it possible to phase out crisis management, including in terms of crisis coordination, explains Briat. “Over the past few months, we have prepared everything to transfer the assignments we carry and methods and task forces we coordinate back to the traditional administrations, in particular the Federal Public Service Public Health and the Crisis Center.”
Facon emphasizes to De Standaard that the dissolution of the corona commission will come “at our own request”. In preparation for his farewell, he submitted a detailed note to the Consultation Committee. This describes how the crisis coordination between the crisis center and Public Health should take place after the federal phase and the disappearance of the commissioner’s office.
“The time is right to return our orders to the administration,” Facon told De Standaard. “To strengthen it, the government has already invested in recruiting 223 new full-time employees.”