Flood prevention and preparedness in Timiş County Romania Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania The Timis County – short presentation The Timis County is the most western county of Romania, at the border with Hungary and Serbia 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania Timis County has km² being the greatest Romanian county, more than 650,000 inhabitants in Timis County has 2 municipalities, Timisoara and Lugoj and 7 cities. Timis County presentation 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania The Banat Region Timis County is part of a historical region called Banat, in our days divided between Romania, Serbia and Hungary. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania The Banat Region The region of Banat has natural borders – The Carpaţi Mountains, Mureş river, Tisa river, Danube river. The region is also crossed by other important rivers like Timiş, Barzava, Caraş, Nera, Cerna and the Bega channel. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania Floods in Banat Region From the XVIII century, channels and dams had been build to avoid the rivers to broke out. The Bega channel has been made in that time and the mud disappeared. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania Floods in /4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania In 2005, Timis Region learnt a lesson. In order to prevent the same experience happen again, we decided to act. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania 1.Creating the regional and cross-border procedures for preventing and acting in case of flood 2.Creating a Regional and cross-border Center for Prevention and Intervention in Case of Disaster – Flood 3.Rehabilitation of the building of the Regional Center 4.Creating the legal proceedings for the Center; acquisition of materials, equipments, hiring the employees ( Total amount of acquisition: EURO) 5.Training for specialists and volunteers in emergency 6. Mapping of the region (past flood event mapping, flood risk mapping, assets mapping) The programs have specific objectives:

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania SAFER SERVICE APPLICATION FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE A collaborative project in the frame of FP-7- Theme Space –Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania SAFER aims at implementing preoperational versions of the Emergency Response Core Service to reinforce European capacity to respond to emergency situations 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania SAFER – priorities: -short term improvement of response when crisis occurs -extension to core service components before and after the crisis (in particular the flood related activities) the work will focus on: -Plain Flood risk Assessment -Assets Mapping 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania SAFER –structure: The consortium of 5 European partners is built around a core team of European service providers, already involved in the former or ongoing projects, in the frame of FP6 or ESA programmes. A wide network of scientific partners and service providers will extend the European dimension, in particular in the new member states Romanian partner: ROSA –Romanian Space Agency End user: Timiş County Council 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania An EU policy on flood risk management Based on an agreement between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers from April 25, 2007 the Flood Directive on the assessment and management of floods (European Commission COM (2006) 15 final) will now become a binding Directive for the Member States. Under the proposed directive they would need to carry out a preliminary assessment to identify the river basins and associated coastal areas at risk of flooding. For such zones they would then need to draw up flood risk maps and then flood risk management plans focused on prevention, protection and preparedness. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania GMES Flood Risk Analysis services support implementation of Floods Directive 6/4/2016 Floods Directive requirements GSE Risk EOS Flood Risk Analysis services „… description of the flood which have occurred in the past …“ (Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment / Article 4) Mapping of Past Flood Events „Members States shall … prepare flood maps and indicative flood damage maps, hereinafter „flood risk maps“, …“ (Article 7) Flood Risk Maps Potential Flood Damage Maps

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania The GMES Flood Risk Analysis services support the implementation of Floods Directive through: Providing appropriate information for implementation of flood risk management plans across the countries and regions of the Community; Providing appropriate information for implementation of flood risk management plans across the countries and regions of the Community; Considering all steps of the “flood cycle” – prevention, protection, preparedness, emergency response and recovery; Considering all steps of the “flood cycle” – prevention, protection, preparedness, emergency response and recovery; Making best use of Earth Observation data enabling European wide harmonised and comparable mapping and modelling results; Making best use of Earth Observation data enabling European wide harmonised and comparable mapping and modelling results; Taking into account the particular geographic, hydrologic and other relevant circumstances of the river basins or sub-basins to provide tailored solutions; Taking into account the particular geographic, hydrologic and other relevant circumstances of the river basins or sub-basins to provide tailored solutions; Being interoperable with parallel GMES services like Spatial Planning and Urban Services (e.g. ESA GSE Land, EC FP6 IP geoland). Being interoperable with parallel GMES services like Spatial Planning and Urban Services (e.g. ESA GSE Land, EC FP6 IP geoland). 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania Plain Flood Risk Management Objectives The overall objective is to consolidate and validate a Plain Flood Risk Management service from mapping to modeling, including damage assessment, as complement to the Core Service. 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania 6/4/2016 The Flood Risk Management package is seen as a complementary part of the FP-7 GMES Emergency Response Core Service (ERCS) enabling service evolution to better document the risk vulnerabilities, especially through mapping of risks and potential damages on water basins. The Flood Directive is closely linked with the Water Framework Directive aiming at integrated basin management comprising flood risk management as well as water quality management. The Flood Risk Analysis portfolio reflects this integrated approach and supports the implementation of integrated management plans by building on a common European Land Monitoring service (LMCS). Moreover, the GMES service package Flood Risk Management fits into the work programme “Regions for Economic Change (see Commission Staff Working Document / SEC (2006) 1432) under the Theme “Preventing and reducing floods”.

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania For more information please have a look at the following URLs: Infoterra GmbH: PREVIEW: risk.com/en/int/contenu.php?page=portfolio_&arbo=cb risk.com/en/int/contenu.php?page=portfolio_&arbo=cbhttp:// risk.com/en/int/contenu.php?page=portfolio_&arbo=cb RISK-EOS: ortfolio_FRA&PHPSESSID=b04f48a55f08d015b6aac0e1b4cb5ab7 ortfolio_FRA&PHPSESSID=b04f48a55f08d015b6aac0e1b4cb5ab7 ortfolio_FRA&PHPSESSID=b04f48a55f08d015b6aac0e1b4cb5ab7 FloodServer: 6/4/2016

Local and Regional Risk Management: Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services, Romania Thank you for your attention! ☺ Ilie Ernest, Timiş County Council Phone: +40 (0) /4/2016