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Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Civil Protection Financial InstrumentCivil Protection Financial Instrument

DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit

Mascia Toussaint

18 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 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

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)

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

Monitoring and Early Warning:

MIC DAILY

GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System)

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, EarlyWarning 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:

- 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