1. EU activities in disaster prevention and risk management
Yordanka Mincheva
European Commission
DG Humanitarian aid and civil protection

2. New EU civil protection legislation (entering into force by end 2013)
Response and Preparedness (shift from ad hoc coordination to a pre-planned, pre-arranged and predictable system):
Better planning (reference scenarios, mapping of assets, contingency plans)
Ensuring availability of key assets (voluntary pool)
Emergency Response Center
Training network, Lessons learnt programme
Prevention (integrated into DRM cycle)
National multi-hazard risk assessments by 2016
Enhanced Risk Management Planning
Assessment of MS risk management capabilities
Other activities (e.g. peer reviews, training, finances)

3. EU disaster prevention activities
Risk assessments: EU overview based on national risk assessments by end-2013
Good practice guidelines
Disaster data study and steps towards European standards
Mainstreaming
Peer reviews
Prevention projects
International cooperation

4. Promoting Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment increasingly important in EU policy making (CP, cohesion funding, solidarity clause)
2010 Guidelines focus on process and methods and promote multi-hazard risk assessments
National risk assessments being developed by MS
EU overview of risks 2013
Link to research on emerging risks

5. List of hazards included in Member States risk assessments
no. % 1
Floods 14 88 2
Severe weather 11 69
Pandemic 4
Wildfire/forest fire 8 50
Terror attacks
Industrial accident
Livestock epidemic
CBRN 9
Nuclear accident 7 44 10
Earthquake 6 38
Loss of critical infrastructure
Cyber attacks
Transport accident
landslide 5 31 15
civil unrest/polarisation 25
drought 17
volcano 3 19
marine pollution/oil spill
environmental pollution
induced seismic event
Tsunami
Hazard
no. % 1
Floods 14 88 2
Severe weather 11 69
Pandemic 4
Wildfire/forest fire 8 50
Terror attacks
Industrial accident
Livestock epidemic
CBRN 9
Nuclear accident 7 44 10
Earthquake 6 38
Loss of critical infrastructure
Cyber attacks
Transport accident
landslide 5 31 15
civil unrest/polarisation 25
drought 17
volcano 3 19
marine pollution/oil spill
environmental pollution
induced seismic event
Tsunami

7. Guidelines on good practice in disaster prevention
Five themes:
Governance
Planning
Disaster data
Communication and education
Research and technology transfer
Based on >400 ex. of good practice from 37 countries
adapt.eea.europa.eu/viewaceitem?aceitem_id=7215
Practices both multi-hazard and hazard specific, covering i.a. earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms, heat waves, droughts, forest fires and industrial accidents

8. Improving the knowledge base
Disaster Data key issues- information gaps, comparability, access
Better link policy-research
Inclusion of more events and impacts especially economic losses
Improved and standardized definitions and terminology for economic losses and/or damage costs, affected people, etc.
Making more data publicly accessible
More comparable and harmonized methodologies and data models
Work with insurance companies, JRC, EEA, international partners (ISDR Desinventar tool, EU-US cooperation)
JRC report on data losses

9. Mainstreaming prevention
EU Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (April 2013)
Cohesion funds ( )
Horizon 2020
Increased use of disaster insurance policies
Green Paper on insurance and disasters (April 2013)
Integration of DRR in EU policies (i.e. Environmental Impact Assessment, nuclear safety, future EU water policy strategy, cross border health; green infrastructure; construction, critical infrastructure, off-shore safety)

10. Prevention projects
DAMSAFE - standardized approach for small dams risk assessment and management
CBA Flood - Knowledge Platform for Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Flood Prevention Measures
SMART WATER - Simple Management of Risks Through a Web Accessible Tool for EU regions

11. International cooperation
Post development agenda /SDGs/MDGs
Post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA.2)
International cooperation on DRM:
Candidate, potential candidate and neighboring countries (IPA)
Neighboring countries (PPRD-South and East)
International partners (e.g. Japan, USA)

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