European Civil Protection

1. European Civil Protection Dr. Dimitrios Pagidas DG ECHO - Emergency Response Unit International Workshop on Implementing the Flood EU Directive in Flash Flood areas

2. How to coordinate 32 European countries?

3. The EU CP Mechanism in a Nutshell • Framework for cooperation in disaster response, preparedness and prevention • Natural and manmade disasters, inside and outside EU • European Commission + 32 Participating States (EU 27 +NO, LI, IS, HR, fYRoM)

4. Covering a wide range of disasters • Natural disasters- Floods, earthquakes, forest fires, cyclones • Manmade disasters- Environmental disasters (Deepwater Horizon, HU alkali sludge accident 2010)- Complex emergencies (Georgia 2008) • Health emergencies- H1N1 crisis (medical support Bulgaria, Ukraine) • Consular support- Terrorist attacks (medical evacuation Mumbai)- Evacuation of EU citizens from Libya and TCN from Tunisia/Egypt

5. Coordination Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) • 24/7 on call (DG ECHO staff) • "One-stop-shop“ • Key operational roles: • Monitoring • -Early warning and alert. • -Satellite images (GMES). • Information • -ECHO Info Products. • -CECIS (300 experts, 143 modules). • Coordination: -of requests/offers through CECIS -through regular videoconferences with MS during emergencies (e.g. f fires, floods) • -Deployment of EU CP Teams. • -UN and other partners. • -Transport facilitation.

6. Monitoring Detection and alerting tools EFAS: Floods forecasting and Flood alerts GDACS: Global Disaster Alert And Coordination System Weather monitoring EFFIS: Fires forecasting

7. Informing Products www.europa.eu/echo CECIS: Common Emergency Communication and Information System ECHO/MIC Portal ECHO Flash ECHO Crisis Reports

8. Technical support – GMES Service • Non-rush mode products • On demand • Standard base widely adaptable to user requests • Weeks-months • Rush mode products • On demand • Standardized • Hours-days Reference maps Disaster response maps Reference maps Pre-disaster situation maps Reference maps Post-disaster situation maps Validation

9. Technical support – Manila Floods

10. EU CP Mechanism operations in 2002 Czech Republic Floods 2002-09-05 Request handled Assistance delivered Spain Marine pollution(Prestige) 2002-11-13 EU observers and 1 MIC liaison officer were deployed + other assistance Greece Flooded cave 2002-11-13 Request handled Assistance delivered

11. UKRAINE • Environmental preparedness mission: 01-09.03 – potential tailing dam collapse (Kalush) • Joint UN-EU mission • 2 experts (NO) & 1 MIC LO • report underlines critical threats and recommendations for priority measures HUNGARY Floods: 25.05 – 01.07.2010 - 3,408,000 sandbags have been accepted from 8 PS (NO, SI, RO, NL, CZ, HR, DE, BG) and CH, MD, UA. • UNITED STATES • US Oil Spill – Deep Horizon: 29.04 (monitoring), 27.05 (request for assistance) • several PS offered assistance: DE, EMSA, FR, IE, NL, NO, SE – sweeping arms, skimmers, containment boom, fire boom, busters • FRANCE • Forest fires: 30.08.2010 • EUFFTR (2 Can CL215) • FRANCE • Speleologic Relief: 04.10.2010 • IT sent a diver team of 7 people • UK sent 2 divers and a liaison officer • POLAND • Floods: 19.05 – 25.06.2010 • 8 PS (DE, FR, CZ, DK, NL, EE, LV, LT ): 50 high capacity pumps, 20 expert teams (over 250 rescuers) • 1 MIC LO • 1 PA* module (high capacity pumping) EU CP Mechanismoperations in 2010 • HAITI • Earthquake: 12.01-06.04 • 26 PS • 3 EUCP teams (7 weeks, 13 experts + 3 MIC LO) • 12 USAR teams – 25% of all USAR deployed, 2 field hospitals, 43 AMPs & medical teams, water purification, 7 assessment teams, tents for 20.000 people – 60% of all tents by 31 Jan, 1 base-camp (300 people capacity), € 4.37 mil for transport grants. • 3 PA* modules (TAST, field hospital, water purification unit) • Cholera outbreak/Hurricane • Tomas: 21.10 – on going • PAKISTAN • Floods: 03.08 – 29.10.2010 • - 1 EUCP team (5 experts, 2 MIC LO) • EU Air Bridge – 12 flights (AT, BG, DE, DK, FR, IT, SE, UK): shelter, water purification, medicines, NFI • 3 flights co financed by CZ and FI • 8 requests for transport co financing • several PS sent assistance: AT, BG, CY, DE, DK, ES, FR, GR, HU, IT, LT, MT, NO, SE, SK, UK GUATEMALA Tropical storm Agatha:25.05.2010 AT provided 1,275 kg of Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) Granules • ALBANIA • Floods: 07-21.01 • 1 EUCP team (5 experts, 1 MIC LO & 1 UNDAC associated expert) • 8 PS (AT, GR, SI, IT, FR, HR, SK, BE) : water pumps, generators, medicines, helicopters, expert teams, boats, other relief items • Floods: December (on going) PORTUGAL 1. For.fires, 25.07-02.08 • IT: 2 Can CL415 2. For. fires, 10-20.08 • EUFFTR (2 CL415 FR) 3. For. Fires, 29.08-01.09 • ES (2 Can CL215+415) ISRAEL Forest Fires: 02.12 – on going HUNGARY Alkali sludge accident: 04.10.2010 1 EUCP team (DE,SE,FR,BE,AT,MIC) • Rep of MOLDOVA • Floods: 07.07 – 28.08.2010 • - 1 EUCP team (3 experts, 1 MIC LO) • 3 PS (AT, EE, RO): pumps, pwr gen, sandbags, plastic sheets, boats for shallow water • COM mobilized EU RRC – BFC module (EE/LV/LT) • ROMANIA • Floods: 02.07 – 16.07.2010 • 4 PS (AT, BE, DE, HU) provided assistance: pumps, pwr gen, geotextile • other PS offered assistance: PL, EU RRC – FR and BFC, BG, LU BENIN Floods: 06.10.2010 1 expert from FR as an associate member to the UNDAC team • CHILE • Earthquake: 27.02-07.06 • 9 PS (AT, BG, SK, FR, DE, IT, ES, SE, UK): power generators, tents, water purification, experts (medical, USAR, etc), 8 mechanical bridges, 1 field hospital with surgery rooms, other relief items • 1 EUCP team (5 experts + 1 MIC LO) • 1 PA module (TAST) • Monitoring status: Iceland volcano (15.04-18.05), Forest Fires in Russia (03.08.2010), Torrential rain in Malta (25-27/10) • Pre-alert (early warning message) status: Ukraine Floods (02.07.2010) • Mechanism activations (requests for assistance): • not followed by delivering assistance or deploying experts through the Mechanism: Tajikistan floods (11.05);Cuba oil spill potential effects (25.06); Colombia Floods (on going) • facilitating resource identification: UK salt for roads (09-26.01); Netherlands salt for roads (11-25.01).

12. JAPAN • Eq+tsunami+nuclear: 11.03-11.05.2011 • 1 EUCP team (CZ, HU, SE, PL, NO, FR, DK, FR, MIC) + 6 TAST (DK) • AT, BG, DK, FR, FI, HU, LT, NL, SE, SK, UK provided in-kind assistance consisting of blankets, mattresses, water, food, clothes, boots, gloves, measurement instruments • LH Cargo, Aerologic, DHL Express provided 3 free of charge flights from FRT to NRT, Japan and in-land distribution to Ibaraki and Miagy prefectures ALBANIA For.fires, 25.08-08.09.2011 • IT: 1+2 CL415 FR • GR: 2 CL415 GREECE For.fires, 25.08-08.09 • ACR5 (FR 2 CL415; ES 2 CL415 FR) • MIC LO on site • PAKISTAN • Floods, 13.09.2011 • 1 EUCP team (DK, SE, PL, MIC) + TAST (DK, SE) • AT, SK, FR: tents, blankets, NFi • transport: 160K EUR EU CP Mechanismoperations in 2011 • TURKEY • Earthquake, 26.10.2011 • 1 EUCP team (FI, UK, AT, BE, MIC) + TAST (FI) • AT, BE, DK, ES, FR, IT, LU, RO, SE, SI, SK, UK, BG, DE, NL, IE: ≈ 6K tents, NFi • transport: 800K EUR • EL SALVADOR • Floods: 17.10.2011 • - 1 EUCP team (ES, MIC) • - AT: hygiene kits, shelter tools, blankets • TUNISIA • Repatriation of TCNs: 01.03-01.08.2011 • - Air transport capacity (157 flights): BE, BG, DE, ES, FR, HU, IT, MT, SE, UK • Sea transport (5 vessels): DE, FR, UK • AT, DE, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, NO, SE – provided medical kits, medicines, tents, blankets, hygiene kits, kitchen sets • Transport co-financing reached 10.5 million EUR • 2 EUCP deployed (1 TAST) • PHILIPPINES • Storm WASHI: 19.12-on going • AT provided in-kind assistance consisting of 728.000 aquatabs (127mg) to purify up to 29 mio liters of water • - ECHO allocated 3 mio EUR. Several PS provided cash support. • CYPRUS • Explosion/power shortage: 11.07-22.08.2011 • Technical EUCPT deployed (AT, BG, DE, HU, IT, MT, PL, UK, MIC LO) and was reinforced by 3 specialised DLR experts to perform a UAV aerial damage assessment • GR offered power generators 70MW • GR awarded 1 mio EUR tp. grant • LIBYA • Civil unrest, 23.02.2011 • BE, HU, UK, RO: planes for repatriating EU citizens from Tripoli, Benghazi, Jalu, Ras Lanuf • Water shortage, 28.09.2011 • ARGENTINA • Volcano eruption: 20.06-29.07.2011 • 3 EU experts + MIC LO joint mission with OCHA/UNEP • Monitoring status: Iceland volcano (22.05); Iceland glacier outburst flood (09.07); NASA satellite re-entry and impact (23.09); RO-SAT (DE) satellite re-entry and impact (14.10); Italy floods (28.10); Thailand floods (31.10) • Pre-alert (early warning message) status: France storm Vania (17.01.2011) • Mechanism activations (requests for assistance): • not followed by delivering assistance or deploying experts through the Mechanism: New Zealand (22.02); Spain waste spill (02.06); Yemen evacuation (03.06); Albania forest fires (20.08); Ukraine – coalmine flooding (27.09.2011); Southeast Asia floods (14.10); Honduras floods (21.10); France (Reunion Is) fires (30.10);

13. Mechanism activations for different types of hazards 2009 2011

14. EUCP response to the floods in Bulgaria (February 2012) 4 Situation overview 1 • SITUATION: Following heavy rains, dams have burst in the province of Haskovo (tinted yellow in the map) in SE Bulgaria. The following points of interest are shown with the correspoding numbers in the map; in the following page a satellite photo of each place is shown. • The villages of Biser and Leshnikovo have been flooded when the Ivanovo water reservoir burst. 9 people died as a result. • The dam of Ivaylovgrad overflowed yesterday at 10:00, with 100 m^3/sec. • The dam of Studen Kladenets is nearing overflow • River Tunja, passing through Elkhovo, is nearing overflow, being at 154 cm (critical level 290cm). • Source: ECHO Ivanovo Leshnikovo 3 2

15. The villages of Biser and Leshnikovo were flooded when the Ivanovo water reservoir burst resulting in 9 deaths • A state of emergency was declared in several provinces

16. Dams overflowing and water levels on increase • Temperatures expected to remain low (-20°C) for a few days and then increasing • National authorities in alert and trying to cope with the situation

17. The Request for assistance • On 7 february Bulgaria made a request for assistance to Participating States (PS) via CECIS: • 80,000 sandbags • 50 winterized family tents • 2,000 m2 of geotextile • Revised to 260,000 sandbags and 20 winterised tents • A request for 50 air dryers to dry out homes came at a later stage

18. EUCP Mechanism response • Within a few hours several Participating States offered assistance: • BE: 80.000 sandbags • IT: 20 winterized tents (for 8 people each with lighting systems and 20 heaters) • HU: 100.000 sandbags • PL: 80.000 sandbags and 2200m2 of geotextile • RO: 80.000 sandbags • Bulgaria accepted the offers from BE (sandbags), HU (sandbags), IT (tents), and PL (geotextile, but not sandbags) and RO (sandbags).

19. New Legislative Proposal • Emergency Response Centre (ERC) • Develop the MIC/ERC into a genuine 24/7 response centre • Links also with HA authorities to provide the full picture • Planning of operations (adding pre-planned ‘layer’) • Shift from ad hoc to pre-planned, pre-arranged and predictable system • European Emergency Response Capacity (Voluntary Pool) • Contingency planning (incl. scenarios, mapping of assets) • Quality requirements for the Pool; trainings/exercises • Continuing ad hoc assistance (CP as it works today) • Increased EU co-financing rates for transport (up to 85%) • Revised conditionality for transport funding (incl. conformity to verified needs on the ground) • Streamlined / simplified procedures

20. Expected outcomes • Greater focus on quality • e.g., certification of modules for the pool • Greater focus on needs-based approach • linking transport funding to verified needs • Greater focus on predictability • Voluntary pool – can predict/know what will be available when needed • can rely on/plan/train this ‘nucleus of assets’ • Greater focus on cost-effectiveness • better coordination/complementarities • better logistics/pooling of transport • economies of scale, local procurement

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