Report of the thirty-ninth meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication: 23–24 September 2025

Overview

The thirty-ninth meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC), held on 23–24 September 2025, reviewed annual updates submitted by the Member States of the WHO European Region on the status of national polio eradication programmes in 2024. The RCC concluded, based on the available evidence, that there was no wild poliovirus transmission in the WHO European Region in 2024, and that the events and outbreaks caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus were adequately managed. The RCC also concluded that Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania 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.