Slide: 1 Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Civil Protection Financial Instrument Community Civil Protection Mechanism & Civil Protection Financial Instrument DG ENV A3 Civil Protection Unit Mascia Toussaint 18 June 2007 EU Civil Protection

Slide: 2 Topics of the presentation Community Civil Protection Mechanism Civil Protection Financial Instrument Other EC funding opportunities

Slide: 3 Community Mechanism for Civil Protection Legal base: Council Decision of 23 October 2001 Participating states: EU (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)

Slide: 4 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

Slide: 5 Community Mechanism for Civil Protection Community Response: examples Mechanism involved in some 100 emergencies since 2001 Inside EUfloods (central Europe 2002, 2005, 2006, France 2003); marine pollution (Prestige –Spain– 2002); forest fires (France 2003, Portugal , 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)

Slide: 6 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

Slide: 7 Community Mechanism for Civil Protection Community preparedness: Simulation exercisesSimulation 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

Slide: 8 Community Mechanism for Civil Protection Monitoring and Early Warning: MIC DAILY GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) EFFIS (Fire forecasting)

Slide: 9 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

Slide: 10 Civil Protection Financial Instrument Legal base: Council decision 5 th March 2007 Areas: Prevention, Preparedness, Early Warning and Response Budget:± 130 million EUR in total Timeline: Basis spending:COM Annual Work Programme

Slide: 11 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:

Slide: 12 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/7 th Framework Programme Research

Slide: 13 Civil protection on Europa website: