Transcript Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Civil Protection Financial Instrument EU Civil Protection

EU Civil Protection
Community Civil Protection Mechanism &
Civil Protection Financial Instrument
DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit
Mascia Toussaint
18 June 2007
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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 don’t 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
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Mechanism involved in some 100 emergencies since 2001
Inside EU
floods (central Europe 2002, 2005, 2006, France 2003);
marine pollution (Prestige –Spain– 2002); forest fires
(France 2003, Portugal 2003-2005, Spain 2006)
Outside
EU
earthquakes (Algeria & Iran 2003, Morocco 2004,
Pakistan 2005, Indonesia 2006); pollution (Lebanon
2006, Ivory Coast 2006, Philippines 2006); tsunami (Sri
Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, Thailand 2004); hurricanes
(USA –Katrina –2005),
floods (Bolivia – 2007)
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Community Mechanism for Civil Protection
Community response:
The Monitoring and Information
Centre (MIC)
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Based in the Commission, on duty 24/7
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Entry point for requests for assistance
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Information role: analysing and distributing reliable info to
MS during disasters
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Supports coordination: despatching expert EU teams,
matching requests for aid to offers from MS
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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
Monitoring and Early Warning:
GDACS (Global Disaster Alert
and Coordination System)
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/finance.htm
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Other EC funding opportunities
 Regional Policy/Structural Funds:
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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
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