Community Civil Protection Mechanism

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Community Civil Protection Mechanism Civil
Protection Financial Instrument DG ENV A3
Civil Protection UnitMascia Toussaint18 June
2007
EU Civil Protection

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• Topics of the presentation
• Community Civil Protection Mechanism
• Civil Protection Financial Instrument
• Other EC funding opportunities

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Legal base Council Decision of 23 October 2001
• Participating states EU-27 3 (Iceland, Norway
  and Liechtenstein)
• Areas
• Prevention
• Preparedness (training, simulation exercises,
  exchange of experts)
• Early Warning Systems
• Response (facilitating and supporting European
  civil protection assistance and solidarity in the
  event of a major disaster)

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Community Response Added value
• Maximises efficiency
• ensuring 2 countries dont send the same aid
• targeted assistance/teams where most needed
• One stop shop for European civil protection
• Ensures effective coordination
• on site ensuring EU teams work together and with
  other actors
• at HQ level

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Community Response examples
• Mechanism involved in some 100 emergencies since
  2001

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Community response The Monitoring and
  Information Centre (MIC)
• Based in the Commission, on duty 24/7
• Entry point for requests for assistance
• Information role analysing and distributing
  reliable info to MS during disasters
• Supports coordination despatching expert EU
  teams, matching requests for aid to offers from
  MS
• Technical support role, e.g. satellite images and
  access to other EC resources

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Community preparedness
• Simulation exercises
• accelerate response
• decision-making procedures
• identify further training needs
• Training
• 6 types of courses
• induction ?high level co-ordination courses
• Exchange of experts
• secondment of national civil protection experts
• familiarise with other techniques
• study other approaches

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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection
GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination
System)

• Monitoring and Early Warning
• MIC DAILY

EFFIS (Fire forecasting)
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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection

• Future of the Community Mechanism
• Commission presented Jan 2006 a legislative
  proposal to take EU civil protection response to
  a new level the recast
• Aims to strengthen transport, early warning,
  modules.
• COM expects that adoption by Council will take
  place before the end of 2007

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Civil Protection Financial Instrument

• Legal base Council decision 5th March 2007
• Areas Prevention, Preparedness,
  Early Warning and Response
• Budget 130 million EUR in total
• Timeline 2007-2013
• Basis spending COM Annual Work Programme

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Civil Protection Financial Instrument

• 2007 Calls
• Call for proposals for simulation exercises
• Call for proposals for prevention and other
  actions
• Call for tender for Community training courses
• See our website for details
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/prote/financ
  e.htm

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Other EC funding opportunities

• Regional Policy/Structural Funds - e.g.
  objective European territorial cooperation
  (former INTERREG)
• - National plans under discussion
• - Detailed management of these programmes is the
  responsibility of the Member States. For every
  programme, Member States designate a managing
  authority (at national, regional or another
  level) which will inform potential
  beneficiaries, select the projects and generally
  monitor implementation.
• PASR/7th Framework Programme Research

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• Civil protection on Europa website
  http//ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/index.htm