Risk management capability assessment guidelines
This notice from the European Commission contains guidelines for the assessment of risk management capabilities across EU Member States, taking into account existing good practice across Member States. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide Member States with a non-binding comprehensive and flexible methodology that will assist them in the self-assessment of their risk management capability.
The guidelines have the following objectives:
- to support Member States' authorities to further build up awareness about the strengths and potential weaknesses of their disaster management system, to identify good practices, and to initiate a process of improvement;
- to contribute to the development and sharing of knowledge-based and evidence-based disaster management policies and practices among the relevant administrative levels in the Member States and across the different sectors and different but related policy competencies;
- to facilitate cooperation in the efforts to manage risks among Member States in the context of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and other relevant disaster management systems.