WELLCOME TO
APELL EUROMODEX
EUROPEAN UNION
CIVIL PROTECTION
MECHANISM
What is it?
The Union Civil Protection Mechanism ("Mechanism") was first
established by Council Decision No. 2001/792/EC Euratom and later
reviewed by Council Decision 2007/779/EC, Euratom of 8 November
2007 . The Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council No
1313/2013/EU on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism in December 2013
entered into force on 1 January 2014. It further developed the Mechanism
into a comprehensive framework for European cooperation in disaster
prevention, preparedness and response. Decision No 1313/2013/EU has
recently been amended by Decision 2019/420 of the European
Parliament and of the Council on 13 March 2019 .
Currently, 34 states - the 28 EU Member States and Norway, Iceland,
Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia and Turkey are participating
(together "participating states").
CN APELL-RO is an independent, non-
governmental and not for profit NGO
registered in Romania.
OUR PRINCIPALES OBJECTIVES
To educate, train and improve specialists in
technological and natural risks assessment
and emergency situations management;
improvement of professional abilities, through
qualifications, continuous professional training,
exercises and technical support.
To promote fundamental, technical-scientific, experimental and
applicative research in the field of environmental protection; to set up and
maintain databases regarding sites of economic operators that involve
specific risks and hazards due to hazardous substances.
To set up a work platform among local communities, economic
stakeholders and competent authorities for emergency response, as a
management tool in elaborating integrated response plans for emergency
situations;• Organization of conferences, workshops, roundtables and
work groups for significant issues in the field of environmental assessment
and emergency situations management;
Editing publications, guides and other documents in the field of
environmental protection, disaster and emergency situations
management.
EU MODEX NEW WAVE
POLAND 2023
The sixth and final EU MODEX was
conducted in Ostrava, Czechia
between 17 and 20 October. Six
countries, members of the Union
Civil Protection Mechanism (Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Poland and Sweden)
participated in a simulation of a
flooding caused by weather crisis in
the Moravian-
Silesian
Region (MSR).
In the wake of devastating floods
caused by heavy rainfall in Poland,
the Union Civil Protection
Mechanism mobilizes an
international response.
EU MODEX NEW WAVE exercise
held in Poland from 5th to 8th
September 2023.
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