EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLIMPROVEMENTS must be made to the European Union's (EU) civil protection system, which coordinates the sending of expert emergency response teams and equipment from all EU Member States, to help countries mitigate the affect of large-scale disasters, says the European Commission. In a new Communication (policy paper), it claims that national governments are failing to keep this central secretariat informed of their current complement of specialist disaster units. Said Brussels: "The Monitoring and Information Centre (the body running these ...
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