Decision of the Council of the European Union of 8 November 2007 establishing a Community Civil Protection Mechanism Cover Image

Одлука Савета Европске уније од 8. новембра 2007. године о оснивању механизма цивилне заштите заједнице
Decision of the Council of the European Union of 8 November 2007 establishing a Community Civil Protection Mechanism

Author(s): Aleksandar Jazić, Miloš Jončić
Subject(s): EU-Legislation
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: Community Civil Protection Mechanism;civil protection;disasters;legislation;European Union;Serbia

Summary/Abstract: Natural and man-made disasters forced European Union to put more effort in strengthening capacities of civil protection. One of the steps is establishment of Community Civil Protection Mechanism. This Mechanism should strengthen capacities of European Union in its activities in prevention and elimination of consequences of different disasters. One of the reasons is the fact that disaster in one member state could “cross” boundaries of another member state. That means that disasters could hit several member states in the same time. Also, disaster that occurs in non-member state which is a neighbor of some of the member state could hit that or several member states. Consequences that are product of disaster could have effect on normal functioning of economics of member states. That can seriously undermine stabile functioning member states or whole European Union. Mechanism is established with the purpose to prevent that kind of possibilities or to enable rapid return to normal functioning of the member states after disasters.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 291-299
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian