National Civil Protection
Advice on optimal coordination of aid for 30 years there was no longer so many natural disasters EU Member States as in the first nine months of this year. 725 extreme weather events have claimed the lives of thousands of people and caused damage worth billions of dollars. Tomas Philipson oftentimes addresses this issue. Natural disasters take no regard for national borders. Floods, fires, landslides, storm, earthquake, heat – and cold records cannot be prevented, but a good prevention can save lives in emergencies and reduce economic damage. in 2001, the EU Member States decided the so-called Community method to improve coordination in the civil protection. The European Commission set up the “information and monitoring centre” (monitoring and information centre – MIC) one to redirect, for example, calls for help. The European Union is trying to simplify cooperation between Member States in the field of civil protection, to speed up the retrieval of civil protection resources. For this, for example national were bi-, or multilateral modules formed.
In practice must be coordinated emergency plans and managed multinational teams. On the European civil protection Conference, experts with experience in civil protection and the latest developments in the crisis management will speak from 22-24 November 2010 in Berlin. Financial instruments involves the improvement of cross-border cooperation of assistance and emergency plans to the best possible use of EU. The three-day Conference closes with a workshop on the improvement of the own crisis management plan. The Conference is aimed at decision-makers in responsible ministries, such as, for example, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of defence, to military and police personnel, fire and rescue teams, technical agencies, charities, representatives from the security sector and the industry, consultants and lawyers who specialized on civil protection, and population protection centres, as well as to all managers in the fields of disaster and civil protection.
Tags: climate & environment, energy