1. European Civil Protection Mechanism 30th meeting of the Commission expert group on forest fires Sezana, Slovenia, 18/19 April 2013
Dr. Dimitrios Pagidas
DG ECHO - Emergency Response Unit
Presented by Ernst Schulte- DG Environment

2. EUCPM operations
2012
ITALY
Marine pollution,
(monitoring)
• EU obs. team (4 members + 1 MIC LO)
• Expert UNEP /OCHA
Montenegro-Forest fires
Request for assistance aerial FF means
-HR offered 2 FF helicopters
Montenegro – snow storm,
Early warning, request for assistance
GR and SI - helicopters
Albania – snowfalls, low temperatures,
LX offered helicopter,
EC transport co-financing
Albania – forest fires,
SI – heli, IT – 2 Canadair
BIH – forest fires
Request for assistance aerial FF means
-HR offered 1 FF airplane
- EMERCOM offered 1 helicopter
Greece– Forest fires
IT and HR: Canadairs
Greece– Forest fires Patras, Megalopolis ;
Request for assistance aerial FF means
Portugal-Forest fires
Request for assistance aerial FF means
-ES offered 2 FF airplanes
- FR sent 2 EU funded FF airplanes (ACR5)
Turkey – Syrian refugees camps
Request for assistance.
In kind assistance AT, FR, HU. Offer from SE–not implemented
Financial assistance SK, NO, ECHO
BULGARIA – Flooding in winter time,
RFA
- Assistance from BE, DE, HU, IT, PL, RO (sandbags, dryers, winterized tents)
Syrian refugees in Jordan
On 14 Sep JO ask for intl' assistance (financial and in-kind) for extend the Za'atri refugee camp
Since May THW (DE) are present in JO for HUM mission and in June IT donated a field medical hospital to JO
- in-kind offers were sent by SK, NO, LUX, AT
- an Assessement EUCPT was sent in JO on 24 SEP
BULGARIA – Forest fires
RO offered a heli – deployment cancelled due to weather
RoCongo – ammunition explosion,
EUCPT (BE, FR, MIC LO)
structural engineers: FR, NL
Comoros islands – Flash floods
Request for assistance
UNDAC team
Monitoring status: S-E Europe - Severe Cold Conditions ( ); Italy – severe winter conditions ( ); Italy-Earthquakes Emilia Romagna ( , ); Bulgaria-Explosion ( , ); Spain - Forest Fires ( ); Syria – civil unrest (on going); Italy – earthquake Calabria ( ); US – tropical cyclone Sandy ( ); France – tropical cyclone Evan ( ).
Pre-alert (early warning message) status: Mexico – earthquake ( ); Pakistan – Avalanche ( ); Indonesia – Earthquake 8.7M / tsunami ( ); Guatemala – earthquake ( ); Philippines – tropical cyclone Bopha ( ).
Requests for assistance: not followed by delivering assistance or deploying experts through the Mechanism: Slovakia - Severe Cold Conditions ( ), Slovenia – forest fires ( ); Chad – floods ( ); Haiti - tropical cyclone Sandy ( ); Nigeria – floods ( ); Fiji - tropical cyclone Evan ( ).

3. Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro
2012 season summary
Over the 2012 forest and wild fires season the EU CP Mechanism received 9 requests for assistance regarding forest fire related emergencies:
Greece (3 times)
Bulgaria
Portugal
Slovenia
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Spain pre-alerted the CP Mechanism by opening an information transmission mode case in CECIS
 Whenever possible assistance was provided whether through resources from fellow Participating States or by activating EU-funded assets.

4. 2013 FF Season Preparations: FF meeting – 25 April The new ERC- 15 May
The new MIC Portal
ECHO Daily Flash
EFFIS
Information analysis and dissemination
JRC/EFFIS reports
Copernicus-GMES-EMS Mapping Service
FF table top Ex
Weekly VC
Forest Fire Bulletin
FF Experts training

5. Response to current conditions
Emergency
Response Centre (ERC)
Response to current conditions
Increasing number and complexity of disasters
Demographic: more people in hazardous zones
Political: new political challenges, need for better coordination
Higher risks, more actors, drive for efficiency, multisector
Institutional and legal changes
Lisbon Treaty (e.g. Solidarity clause, creation of EEAS)
New civil protection legislation
Organizational changes
Merger of civil protection and humanitarian aid
Review of Commission coordination processes (e.g. Argus)

6. Objectives Enhancing preparedness More efficiency Better coordination
More rapid response
Better protection of our citizens

7. What the ERC can offer: Continuous monitoring capacity
Instant reactivity: 60% of emergencies occur outside office hours
Duty of care, global operational network of ECHO Offices
Back-office for field deployments
Operations rooms
Capacity to manage more than one emergency simultaneously
Liaison Offices
Real-time information sharing; coordination with key stakeholders
Support functions
Analysis, satellite images, maps
Transport, logistics
Expertise, analysis
Operational network with national CP authorities and field presence
"Public" space
Outreach to partners, stakeholders, scientific world
Meeting space, video conferences

8. ERC – 3 D Model
Joseph II 79
LOI 86/84
DG AGRI

9. THANK YOU!