Seminar on Strenghtening Cooperation with the Candidate Countires and Western Balkan Countries in the Field of Civil Protection

Cooperation between EU Member States, Candidate Countries and Western Balkan

Countires

Ms Zóra HlinkaNational Directorate General for Disaster Management

Department for International RelationsBled, 25-26 February 2008

Cooperation with countries of the region

• Bilateral agreements• Trilateral agreement• EU• Regional cooperation

Bilateral agreements-cooperation and mutual assistance in the

event of disasters

• Early warning• Information

exchange• Assistance (teams,

capacities, humanitarian relief)

• Other forms of cooperation

Bilateral agreements – cooperation and mutual assistance in

the event of disasters

• GR, RO, SI• CRO, TR• Former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia - under development• Central level• Regional/local level

Trilateral, multilateral cooperation

Trilateral: Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia- Information exchange- Prevention- Education- Exercises

Multilateral: DPPI

EU projects

• Interreg• Community Civil

Protection Mechanism – EU-HUROMEX 2008

EU-HUROMEX 2008

• Objective: to test and improve the procedures of the Community Civil Protection Mechanism in case of a need for assistance

• Scenario aims at: mitigating and eliminating the transboundary consequences of natural disasters, radiological and chemical incidents as well the potential consequences of deliberate criminal actions with the help of internatinal teams

EU-HUROMEX 2008

• Beneficiray: Hungary• Partner: Romania• Participants: Austria,

Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

• DPPI countries: invited with team, as observers

Thank you for your attention!