Management of natural and technical hazards in Central and Eastern European candidate countries (PECO)
This report was prepared jointly by the Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) and the office of the Natural and Environmental Disaster Information Exchange System (NEDIES) which are part of the Technological and Economic Risk Management Unit of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of DG-Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
The focus of the JRC Enlargement project, "Management of Natural and Technological Hazards", is the management and mitigation of risk from technological and natural hazards. The project provides for the extension of activities of the JRC in these areas to include the Candidate Countries. The extension of these activities has been pursued through a sequence of actions: workshops, analyses of existing situations, prioritising of interventions, data collection; transfer of EU software tools,training, joint projects and benchmark exercises. This report describes the outcome and achievements of the project and offers relevant recommendations for future work in this area.