ODLUKA SAVETA EVROPSKE UNIJE OD 8. NOVEMBRA 2007. GODINE O OSNIVANjU MEHANIZMA CIVILNE ZAŠTITE ZAJEDNICE

JAZIĆ dr Aleksandar (Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), jazic@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs
JONČIĆ mr Miloš (Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), mjoncic@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

Natural and man-made disasters forced European Union to put more effort in strengthening capacities of civil protection. One of the steps is establishment of Community Civil Protection Mechanism. This Mechanism should strengthen capacities of European Union in its activities in prevention and elimination of consequences of different disasters. One of the reasons is the fact that disaster in one member state could “cross” boundaries of another member state. That means that disasters could hit several member states in the same time. Also, disaster that occurs in non-member state which is a neighbor of some of the member state could hit that or several member states. Consequences that are product of disaster could have effect on normal functioning of economics of member states. That can seriously undermine stabile functioning member states or whole European Union. Mechanism is established with the purpose to prevent that kind of possibilities or to enable rapid return to normal functioning of the member states after disasters.

Keywords: Community Civil Protection Mechanism, civil protection, disasters, legislation, European Union, Serbia.