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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