RISK Information Management, Commission Recommendation of Feb. 8, 2023

“Pursuant to Article 6(5) of Decision No 1313/2013, the Commission is to establish and develop Union disaster resilience goals in the area of civil protection in cooperation with Member States, and adopt recommendations to define them as a non-binding common baseline to support prevention and preparedness actions in the event of disasters which cause or are capable of causing multi-country transboundary effects.

In addition to claiming lives and impacting human health, disasters undermine economic prosperity and cause irreparable losses to the environment, the biodiversity and cultural heritage. Disaster resilience should therefore be strengthened at Union level and in the Member States. The Union disaster resilience goals are to contribute to strengthen disaster resilience and improve the capacity of the Union and its Member States to withstand the effects of current and future disasters. Comprehensive and integrated approaches to disaster risk management are key to strengthening resilience.”

Strengthening disaster resilience should be

• • Comprehensive by covering the full disaster management cycle
  • Anticipatory
  • Cross-sectoral and transboundary
  • Knowledge and evidence-based
  • Inclusive
  • Sustainable

Note (among many other aspects) the importance of

• • Scenario Modeling
  • Extended role of Population / Civil Society in the “all-of-society” sense
  • through better coordination for transboundary and cross-border risks and
  • better integration and interoperability of systems
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • Improve the disaster risk communication and information management capability:
  • Improve post-disaster evaluation

The ERCC and Member States’ counterparts should:

(a) enhance the interoperability of systems and procedures that support the civil protection response and the coordination of response measures across relevant authorities and partners;

(b) ensure that communication and information management systems and procedures support coherent risk, emergency and crisis communication among relevant authorities and with relevant external partners.

Press release including links to the official documents:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_23_600

In the following .pdf files I marked-up text that refers to Information Management

COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION of 8.2.2023 on Union disaster resilience goals
https://rimma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230208_Union-Disaster-Resilience-Goals-C_2023_400_1_EN_ACT_part1_v9-and-annex__Markups_by__H_Kremers.pdf

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
European Union Disaster Resilience Goals: Acting together to deal with future emergencies
https://rimma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230208_Union-Disaster-Resilience-Goals-COM_2023_61_1_EN_ACT_part1_v12___Markups__H_Kremers.pdf

also note the stronk link to the UN Sendai Framework Midterm Review Recommendations published January 31st, 2023:
https://rimma.org/un-sendai-framework-midterm-review-main-findings