The Italian Emergency Management System    

Department of Civil Protection Luca Rossiluca.rossi@protezionecivile.it

OECD Workshop on Inter-Agency Crisis Management

Geneva June 28th 2012

Civil Protection Mission

L.225/92_art.1

Defence lives and property by damage or by possible damage due to natural & technological disasters and other destructive events.

PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Pop. 60.000.000:

8100 municipalities

20% of the population is distributed on 55% of the territory

Italy: a disaster prone country

Risks:

Hydro-geological

Seismic

Volcanoes

Forest fires

Industrial and transport

25/05/11

The National Service

The Service was established by law (n. 225) in 1992 and involves many different actor: public and private sector, scientific and academic sector, civil society.

Mitigation

Alert

Response

Recovering

OPERATIONS AIMED AT FULFILLING THE BASIC NEEDS OF THE POPULATION AFFECTED BY THE EVENT BASED ON PREVIOUSLY ELABORATED EMERGENCY RELIEF PLANS

INTERVENTIONS AIMED AT RESTORING NORMAL LIFE CONDITIONS

REDUCING/MITIGATING DAMAGESRAISING POPULATION AWARENESS ENHANCE SELF PROTECTION MEASURES

ANALYSIS OF CAUSES AIMED AT IDENTIFYING RISK TYPOLOGIES AND AREAS AFFECTED BY RISKS

TASKSTASKS

D.L. 59/2012

IDCP mandate

To identify and involve all the public/private structures necessary to cope with the extraordinary events

Ensure unified coordination/direction at national level

Support all the operational structures involved collecting and sharing data and information

DCP is the coordination body of the Italian National Service of Civil Protection

Interior

Economy and Finance

Foreign Affairs

Environment

Education, University and Research

Transport and Infrastructures

Defence

Agricultural Policy and Forestry

Communications

Ecnomic Development

Health

Cultural Heritage and Activities

PRESIDENCY

OF THE

COUNCIL

OF MINISTERS

Department of Civil Protection

Regions

Provinces

Municipalities

National Fire-fighters Corp

Police

Prefectures

I.N.G.V.

C.N.R.

National Institutes

118

Financial Police

ArmyNavyAir ForceCarabinieri

G.R.T.N.

Coast Guard

ANAS

Highways company

National railways

National Forest Service

ANPA

Local Police

Structure

National Fire Brigades

Army Air Force

Navy

Police

Regions and Local Autonomies

Italian Red

Cross

State Corps of Foresters

Agency for environment

protection

National Institute for geophysics

and volcanology

Alpine Rescue Corps

National health system

National Research Council

Volunteers organisations

Head Department of

Civil Protection

The Operational Commitee

is set up within the Department of Civil Protection to ensure a unified direction and coordination of emergency management

Dams Agency

Agency for road maintenance

HighwayTrains

Postmaster

Railway

Electricity management

agencies

Monitoring forecast

team

Telecommunications companies

Italian Television

Agency for flight control

Real case 1: Costa Concordia Cruise shipPhase 1: Search & Rescue

Phase 2: reducing/preventing environmental consequences

Real case 2:Emilia Romagna Earthquake

Special Law (Decreto Legge 74) aiming to address the quick recovery of the industrial activity by providing technical guidelines to engineers and other technicians to put in safety the industrial buildings

•Search and Rescue

•Assistance to the multiethnic population

•Cultural heritage/Debris removal and disposal

•Damages to the industrial factories (Bio-Medical, Parmisan/Winegar) covering 1.5% NGP

One more reason for “sharing” Cost per year for:• Co-financing of the technical-

scientific national network: 7Mۥ Ordinary co-maintenance of the met

network: 5M€• ECMWF (NWP) 10M€

Data and information/knowledge arising from such investment are made available, for free to all the civil protection components, including research centres, military and public services (e.g. the National Agency for Civilian Aviation)