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Title: DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit http:ec'europa'euenvironmentcivilindex'htm


1
EUROPEAN CIVIL PROTECTION Together in the face of
disaster
  • DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit
    http//ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/index.htm

2
European civil protection cooperation
  • History
  • 1985 first ministerial meeting
  • 1987 a number of Council resolutions
  • 1997 first CP Action Programme
  • 2001 Community CP Mechanism established
  • 2007 revised legal framework

3
European civil protection cooperation
  • Community civil protection mechanism
  • adopted on 8 November 2007 (2007/779/EC, Euratom)
  • Civil protection financial instrument
  • adopted on 5 March 2007 (2007/162/EC, Euratom)

4
Preparedness Overview
  • 2001 legal basis
  • Training courses
  • Simulation exercises
  • EU Exchange of experts system (http//www.exchange
    ofexperts.eu/)
  • Projects
  • 2007 legal basis
  • Early warning
  • Modules

5
Preparedness Training courses
  • Some 600 experts already trained
  • Sub-contracted training centres in various
    locations

Experts trained in EU civil protection can be
deployed
Exchange of experts programme
6
Preparedness Simulation exercises
  • What kind of exercises?
  • Large-scale pan-European simulation exercises
  • 2007 ? 2.6 million
  • 21 exercises financed since 2002
  • Aims
  • Accelerate response decision-making procedures
  • Enhance interoperability
  • Identify further training needs

Escex 2004, Finland
Eurosot 2005, Italy
EUDANEX 2006, Denmark/Sweden
EULUX 2007, Luxembourg
7
Preparedness and Response Modules
  • resources of one or more participating states
  • can be dispatched at very short notice
  • work self-sufficiently and autonomously
  • interoperable with other modules
  • able to provide assistance to other international
    organisations, especially the UN
  • examples of modules forest fire-fighting high
    capacity pumping

8
Monitoring and Information Centre
Response The MIC
Technical support
e.g. satellite images and access to other
Community resources
Supports coordination
Information role
  • e.g.
  • dispatches EU expert teams
  • matches requests for aid to offers from
    participating states
  • assists in providing transport options for
    assistance

e.g. analyses and distributes reliable info to
participating states during disasters
A one-stop shop for civil protection
assistance
9
Response outside the EU
  • close cooperation with other Commission services
    e.g. DG ECHO, DG RELEX
  • close cooperation with the Presidency of the EU
  • leading role of UN OCHA recognised
  • close cooperation between MIC teams and UNDAC
    teams on site

10
Response CECIS
Common Emergency Communication and Information
System
11
Specificities of European civil protection
  • European systems and organisations have evolved
    over the last 15 years
  • the term civil defence is now rarely used in
    Europe
  • organisations are civilian and personnel are
    under civilian command
  • personnel do not carry weapons when on
    international disaster relief missions
  • military resources are used as a last resort.

12
Prevention Why a specific strategy?
  • Prevention and response go together
  • Increasing link between civil protection with
    environmental and other policies

Disaster
Civil Protection
Other Policies
Disaster Risk Reduction / Prevention
13
Prevention An ongoing process
Knowledge-based approach
2 studies Gaps identified
Stakeholder consultation
Ongoing review process
  • European society
  • Businesses
  • Public Sector

end 2008 prevention initiative
14
Prevention What is the aim?
  • build a consistent knowledge base on disasters
  • link the various actors and policies
  • improve the use of EU funds for preventing
    disasters
  • review and complement existing initiatives
  • support specific EU research and development
    initiatives
  • reinforce international co-operation on
    prevention.

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Thank you
http//ec.europa.eu/environment/civil
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