Cooperation and interaction

"The EU as a capacity enabler"

Director General Monique PARIAT

DG ECHO – European Civil protection and Humanitarian Operations

European Commission

Pre-committed response capacities

from the Member States for EU missions

EU Certification process

EU financial support

Transport and technological upgrade of teams

UCPM Voluntary Pool

Belgium

Czech Republic

Spain

Netherlands

Poland

Slovenia

European Emergency Response Capacity | Voluntary Pool state of play on the registration process (18/01/2017)

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in linewith UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration ofIndependence.

France

Germany

FinlandSweden

Italy

Flood Rescue with

Boats

Environmental

Assessment Unit

High Capacity PumpingForest Fire Fighting

with P lanes

Water PurificationGround Forest Fire

Fighting

Flood ContainmentGround Forest Fire

Fighting wih Vehicles

M edium Urban Search

and Rescue

CBRN Detection and

Sampling

Cave Search and

Rescue

CBRN

Decontamination

Heavy Urban Search

and Rescue

Standing Engineering

Capacity

Structural Assessment

Capacity

Technical Assistance

and Support Team

M obile Lab ICT Help Desk

M edical A ir Evacuation Shelter Capacities

Emergency M edical

Team

M aritime Incident

Response Group

M arine Polution

Capacities

Response Capacities

Copyright, European Union, 2016. Map created by ERCC Analytical Team. Sources: ECHO, ESRI, OCHA.The boundaries and names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by theEuropean Union.

Total response capacities: 76Participating States: 15

Denmark

Greece

Slovakia

Romania

© European Union, 2016. Base Map produced by EC-JRC. The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

IndonesiaScoping mission on PCB

Fires 06.01-17.01.2016

Serbia Refugees

GuineaPreparedness mission

03.2016

Greece Refugeesongoing

Fiji Tropical cyclone

WINSTON-16

EcuadorEarthquake16.04.2016

AngolaYellow Fever

05.2016

UkraineScoping + Advisory

mission on Salt mine environmental

emergency14.09-07.10.2016

CyprusForest Fires

20.06 -28.06.2016

Sri LankaFloods and Landslides

19.05-19.07.2016

DR Congo Yellow Fever 19.07.2016

France Forest Fires

08.2016

Portugal Forest Fires

08.2016

former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Floods EUCPT: 10-19.08.2016

Cape Verde Seismic activity

08/2016

Italy Earthquake

UCPM observation mission

14-17.09.2016

BoliviaAdvisory mission

drought07-29.09.2016

HaitiTropical Cyclone

Mathews03.10.2016

Iraq – Mosul Conflictongoing

IsraelForest Fires24.11.2016

AlbaniaFloods

20-25 Nov 2016

UkraineAdvisory mission 31.03-16.04.2016

UCPM ACTIVATIONS 201626 PS -> contributed to26 emergencies

10 EUCPT / 102 pax 3 TAST 17 firefighting planes 1 USAR heavy 2 Water Purification 1 Mobile Laboratory 1 ICT/OSOCC Office

• 26 233 blankets• 20 300 raincoats• 25 100 iron sheets• 1 639 tents• 5 564 beds• 11 700 sleeping bags• 2 Helicopters• 2 Navy vessels• 4 290 Mattresses• 7 560 pillows• 8 000 towels• 4 vans• 2000 aquatabs• 15 000 medical

consumables

• Since December 2016, Chile isexperiencing the worst forest fireemergency in its history: more than500 000 hectares have been affectedsince July 2016 (double than the areaburnt in EU countries in 2015).

• The UCPM was activated on 26 January2017 by the Government of Chile.

• France, Spain and Portugal offeredassistance consisting of ground forestfire fighting teams and equipment. 180European firefighters arrived in Chile on28 January 2017.

• Austria and Sweden contributed withspecialized firefighting equipment andtools.

• An EUCPT was deployed: six CPexperts + 2 ERCC Liaison officers.

Chile – Forest Fires

On 17 Nov. the UCPM was activated, based on a RfA from OCHA

UCPM Response:

• AT, DE, DK, FI, FR, NO, SE and SKoffered assistance through the UCPM,with the first arrival on 12 Dec. inErbil (Iraq).

• A small EUCP Team was deployed toErbil from 28 Nov. to 22 Dec. Theteam re-started the work as of 2 Janfor 10 days in 2017.

Iraq – HumanitarianResponse

BE Mobile Laboratory in EU Volontary Pool Fight against EBOLA Guinea - Nzere Kore

Satellite images

Use of geo-spatial information /maps

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