European Commission 10 April 2025, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/704 of 10 April 2025 laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism and repealing Commission Implementing Decisions 2014/762/EU and (EU) 2019/1310 (notified under document C(2025) 2130)

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CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Subject matter
Article 2. Definitions
CHAPTER 2. EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATION CENTRE (‘ERCC’)
Article 3. Interaction of the ERCC with Member States’ contact points
CHAPTER 3. COMMON EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (‘CECIS’)
Article 4. CECIS layers
Article 5. Information security
Article 6. Information and update
Article 7. CECIS user group
Article 8. Implementation and further development
Article 9. Marine pollution CECIS
CHAPTER 4. EXPERTS, MODULES, OTHER RESPONSE CAPACITIES AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TEAMS (‘TAST’)
Article 10. Registration of experts, modules, other response capacities and TAST
Article 11. Composition of EUCP Teams, modules, other response capacities and TAST
Article 12. Self-sufficiency of modules and other response capacities
Article 13. Requirements for modules, other response capacities and TAST
CHAPTER 5. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECPP AND rescEU
Article 14. Capacity goals of the ECPP
Article 15. Certification and registration procedure for ECPP capacities
Article 16. Certification and registration procedure in the ECPP for experts
Article 17. Certification and registration procedure for rescEU capacities
Article 18. Long-term commitment of rescEU capacities
Article 19. Commitment to the ECPP of capacities that receive Union funding for adaptation costs
CHAPTER 6. ADDRESSING RESPONSE CAPACITY GAPS
Article 20. Monitoring progress towards the capacity goals
Article 21. Procedure for identifying response capacity gaps in the ECPP
Article 22. Procedure for identifying response capacities outside the ECPP
Article 23. Procedure for addressing response capacity gaps
CHAPTER 7. TRAINING, EXERCISES AND EXCHANGE OF EXPERTS PROGRAMMES
Article 24. Common provisions on training, exercises and exchange of experts programmes
Article 25. Supplementary character of the training programme
Article 26. Participants in the training programme
Article 27. Content, format and curricula of the training courses
Article 28. Exercises programme
Article 29. Exchange of experts programme
Article 30. Participants in the exchange of experts programme
CHAPTER 8. IDENTIFYING LESSONS
Article 31. Monitoring, analysing and evaluating
Article 32. Promoting implementation of lessons
CHAPTER 9. OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES FOR DISASTER RESPONSE
Article 33. Requests for assistance and response
Article 34. Criteria for deployment decisions on rescEU capacities
Article 35. National use of rescEU capacities
Article 36. rescEU donations
Article 37. Refusal to deploy personnel outside the Union
Article 38. Visibility arrangements for the use of ECPP and rescEU capacities
Article 39. Expert missions
Article 40. Operational disengagement of capacities
Article 41. Criteria for decisions to disengage rescEU capacities
Article 42. Reporting and identifying lessons
Article 43. Assistance costs
Article 44. Operational costs
Article 45. Host nation support
Article 46. Compensation for damage
CHAPTER 10. PROCESS OF DEPLOYING EXPERTS
Article 47. Categories of experts
Article 48. Tasks and functions
Article 49. Expert database
Article 50. Training and exercises requirements
Article 51. Nomination
Article 52. Deployment of experts, EUCP Teams and TAST
CHAPTER 11. UNION ASSISTANCE IN RESPONSE ACTIONS
Article 53. Union assistance in response actions
Article 54. Requests for Union assistance in response actions
Article 55. Decision on Union assistance for response actions
Article 56. Compensation for damage
Article 57. Designation of competent authorities
CHAPTER 12. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 58. Repeal
Article 59. Addressees
ANNEX I. CECIS

Official Journal
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2025/704

15.4.2025

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2025/704

of 10 April 2025

laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism and repealing Commission Implementing Decisions 2014/762/EU and (EU) 2019/1310

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