EU Reporting Guidelines on Disaster Management, Art. 6(1)d of Decision No. 1313/2013/EU 2019

Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (1) on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), as amended on 21 March 2019 (2), requires Member States to provide the Commission with summaries of the relevant aspects of their risk assessment and the assessment of their risk management capability, focusing on key risks. It also requires Member States to provide information on the priority prevention and preparedness measures needed to address key risks with cross-border impacts, and, where appropriate, low probability risks with a high impact. 

These guidelines take the form of a Template, listing all main questions to be addressed in the national summaries, and accompanying guidance for completing the Template appropriately. These guidelines are non-binding and are designed to help with summarising the relevant aspects of:

1. risk assessment, focusing on key risks,
2. risk management capability assessment, focusing on key risks,
3. and a description of priority prevention and preparedness measures addressing key risks with cross-border impacts and, where appropriate, low probability risks with a high impact.