Table 1.

Categorisation of zoonoses and food‐borne outbreaks monitoring data used in EUSR 2016 (adapted from Boelaert et al., 2016)

Category	Type of analyses	Type/comparability between MS	Examples
I	Descriptive summaries at national level and EU‐level EU trend watching (trend monitoring) Spatial and temporal trends analyses at the EU‐level	Programmed and harmonised monitoring or surveillance Comparable between MS; results at EU‐level are interpretable	Salmonella national control programmes in poultry Bovine tuberculosis Bovine and small ruminant brucellosis Trichinella in pigs at the slaughterhouse Echinococcus granulosus at the slaughterhouse
II	Descriptive summaries at national level and EU‐level EU trend watching (trend monitoring) No trend analysis at the EU‐level	Not fully harmonised monitoring or surveillance Not fully comparable between MS; caution needed when interpreting results at EU‐level	Food‐borne outbreaks data Monitoring of compliance with process hygiene and food safety criteria for L. monocytogenes, Salmonella and E. coli according Reg No 2073/20055 Monitoring of rabies
III	Descriptive summaries at national level and EU‐level No EU trend watching (trend monitoring) No trend analysis at the EU‐level	Non‐harmonised monitoring or surveillance data with no (harmonised) reporting requirements Not comparable between MS; extreme caution needed when interpreting results at EU‐level	Campylobacter Yersinia Q fever Francisella tularensis West Nile virus Taenia spp. other zoonoses Toxoplasma