EUROBALTIC BSR COUNTRIES CIVIL PROTECTION COOPERATION

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EUROBALTIC BSR COUNTRIES CIVIL PROTECTION
CO-OPERATION
Barbara Kucnerowicz Polak PROGRAMME CO-ORDINATO
R National Headquarters of the State Fire Service
, Poland Berith Engstrom PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR
Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Sweden
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BASIC INFORMATION

• BSS co-operation in civil security (protection)
  initiated at 2nd Summit, Riga, 1998
  politically supported by 3rd Summit, Kolding,
  2000 and further
• Start of the Programme - December 2001
• Countries Involved Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
  Island, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Germany,
  Poland, Sweden, Russia (Kaliningrad)
  
• Programme Co-ordinator Poland, NHQs of the SFS
• Core Group Poland, Sweden, Russia
• Project Lead Partners Finland (Aleksantreti),
  Sweden (SRSA, Nordregio)

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BASIC INFORMATION

• Project application preparation 2002
• Core Group Poland, Sweden, Russia
• Project approved March 2003
• Project Lead Partners Finland (Aleksantreti
  Instytut), Sweden (SRSA, Nordregio)

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FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE CBSS EUROBALTIC
PROGRAMMEsince March 2003
ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA POLAND RF
OLD EU COUNTRIES NORWAY
INTERREG IIIB FUND
MARCH 2003- APPROVAL OF THE BSR INTERREG III B
EUROBALTIC CIVIL PROTECTION PROJECT -
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EUROBALTIC CP PROGRAMMEGENERAL OBJECTIVES
Prevention
MAN-MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS
Preparedness
Response
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PROGRAMS PIRORITIES

• Promoting development and co-operation between
  different sectors and stake-holders
  
• resulting in
• Establishment of sub-sectoral and cross-national
  programmes and policies in the civil protection
  area, and
  
• Strengthening actors involved, both institutional
  and individual

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EUROBALTIC CP PROGRAMMEWORKING PACKAGES
EUROBALTIC PROGRAM

NEW TECHNOLOGIES IT IN DECISSION SUPPORT
SYSTEMS
COOPERATION WITH NON- STATE ACTORS
CAPACITY BUILDING - TRAINING (INST. AND HUMAN)
RISK ASSESSMENT AND MAPPING
TRANSNATIONALISATION CROSS-SECTORALITY REGIONALI
SATION
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IMPLEMENTATION ELEMENTS

• State of the Art. Reports - providing
  information on current satus and basis for
  further development
  
• Workshops, seminars, trainings for different
  stakeholders and different levels
  
• EXERCISES on site and table-top
• Pilot Projects
• Final Materials, Handbooks

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICSPre-INTERREG IIIB
Activities Dec. 2000 March 2003

• Civil Security Experts Meeting (Poland, 2000)
• CPE Meeting (Poland, 2001)
• 112 Call Handling State of the Art. Report
  (Iceland, 2002)
  
• Legal Aspects of 112 (Sweden, 2002)
• Technical Aspects of 112 (Estonia, 2002)
• KOTKI Exercise (Poland, 2002)
• VALGA Rescue Exercise (Estonia, 2002)
• CPE Meeting (Denmark, 2002)
• CP DG Meeting (Estonia, 2002)

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICSMilestone1 March
2003 June 2003

• INTERREG IIIB
• Kick Off Meeting
• Rep. on Training-started

• NON-INTERREG IIIB
• KETRZYN Seminar Exercise on Polish-Russian
  Boarder

• MIX ACTIVITIES
• Pilot project on local development towards
  safety- started
  
• Cooperation on Risks/Crisis Menagement
  high-level education - started

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICS Milestone 2 June
2003 December 2003

• INTERREG IIIB
• Oil Spill Course (Sweden)
• Safe Community (Sweden)
• Report on org/authorities communication-started
• Report on Risk Assesment Systems-started

• NON-INTERREG IIIB
• CPE Meeting (Latvia)
• CPDG Meeting (Russia)
• WIGRY Seminar (Poland)
• 112 Workshop (Lithuania)

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICS Milestone
3 January 2004 June 2004

• INTERREG IIIB
• Safe Community -Industry (Sweden)
• 112 seminar (Finland)
• S.A. Report on CP training-drafted ( in revision)

• NON-INTERREG IIIB
• NOSE Exercise - oil spill (Lithuania)
• Cultural Heritage Protection (Poland)
• Civil Protection Forum (Poland)

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICS Milestone 4 from
June 2004

• INTERREG IIIB
• IT and Decision Support Systems in CP and
  Emergency Management ( Finland)
  
• Regionalisation of Rescue Services (Finland)
• Lessons Learnt from Past Incidents (Norway)

• NON-INTERREG IIIB
• CP Experts Meeting - Finland
• CBSS Conference EU Enlargement Poland and New
  Neighbours Poland
  
• CP DG Meeting, Vilnius

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EUROBALTIC EVENTS - STATISTICSmilestone 4 - till
end of 2004

• INTERREG IIIB
• Risk mapping
• Developing training programmes

• NON-INTERREG IIIB
• CP Colleges Meeting, Warsaw

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EUROBALTIC CP REGIONAL COOPERATION AS A GOOD
PRACTICE EXAMPLE
Presenting Programme at International Fora

• ECE Sub-regional workshop on the Implementation
  of the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of
  Industrial Accidents, Armenia March 2003
  
• UNEP APELL/Advisory Group on Environmental
  Emergencies Meeting, Switzerland May 2003
  
• International Civil Protection and Rescue Forum,
  Poland June 2004
  
• CBSS High Level Conference EU Enlargement,
  Gdansk, September 2004
  
• IT Conference, Finland, September 2004
• Civil Protection Directors General Meeting and
  CSO- annually

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SUMMARY

• Platform for horizontal, cross-sectoral and
  transnational cooperation has been established
  
• Networks of cooperation of different
  stakeholders/experts have been created
  
• Human and Institutions capacity has been
  strengthen via information, trainings and
  experiences exchange within the region

Regional Cooperation, when demand driven and
supported, both financially and politically,
provides opportunity to achieve more then could
be done by individual country efforts