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EU Civil Protection. Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Civil Protection Financial Instrument DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit Mascia Toussaint 18 June 2007. Topics of the presentation Community Civil Protection Mechanism Civil Protection Financial Instrument Other EC funding opportunities. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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