Eligible costs of rescEU medical aerial evacuation capacities, emergency medical team type 2 and type 3 capacities, medical stockpiling, CBRN decontamination, CBRN stockpiling capacities and temporary shelter capacities
Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/570 is amended as follows:
(1)
Article 1a is amended as follows:
(a)
paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
‘(2) ‘Emergency medical team type 3 (Inpatient Referral Care)’ means a deployable emergency team of medical and other key personnel trained and equipped to treat patients affected by a disaster and which provides complex inpatient referral surgical care, including intensive care capacity.’;
(b)
the following paragraph 3 is added:
‘(3) ‘Virtual shelter reserve’ means one or more arrangements with selected suppliers to be activated on-demand to deliver certain quantities of specific assets in a pre-defined timeframe.’;
(2)
Article 2 is amended as follows:
(a)
paragraph 1 is amended as follows:
(i)
the fifth indent is replaced by the following:
‘-
capacities in the area of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents,’;
(ii)
the following sixth indent is added:
‘-
shelter capacities.’;
(b)
paragraph 2 is amended as follows:
(i)
point (e) is replaced by the following:
‘(e)
emergency medical team type 2 (Inpatient Surgical Emergency Care) or emergency medical team type 3 (Inpatient Referral Care) capacities, or both;’
(ii)
point (h) is replaced by the following:
‘(h)
chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) stockpiling capacities;’
(iii)
the following point (i) is added:
‘(i)
temporary shelter capacities.’
(3)
Article 3a is replaced by the following:
‘Article 3a
Eligible costs of rescEU medical aerial evacuation capacities, emergency medical team type 2 and type 3 capacities, medical stockpiling, CBRN decontamination, CBRN stockpiling capacities and temporary shelter capacities
All cost categories referred to in Annex Ia to Decision No 1313/2013/EU shall be taken into account when calculating the total eligible cost of rescEU capacities.’
(4)
in Article 3e, paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the following:
‘3. rescEU capacities referred to in points (c) to (i) of Article 2(2) shall be established with the objective of managing low probability risks with a high impact.
4. Where rescEU capacities referred to in points (c) to (i) of Article 2(2) are deployed under the Union Mechanism, Union financial assistance shall cover 100 % of the operational costs, pursuant to Article 23(4b) of Decision No 1313/2013/EU.’;
(5)
the Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
ANNEX
The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/570 is amended as follows:
(1)
Section 5 is replaced by the following:
‘5.
Emergency medical team type 2 (Inpatient Surgical Emergency Care) or emergency medical team type 3 (Inpatient Referral Care) capacities, or both
Tasks
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Provide type 2 (Inpatient Surgical Emergency Care) or type 3 (Inpatient Referral Care), or both, as described by the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.
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Provide specialised care or support functions, including if needed via specialised care teams as described by the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.
Capacities
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Minimum treatment capability in accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.
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Day and night services (covering 24/7 if necessary).
Main components
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In accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.
Self-sufficiency
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The team should ensure self-sufficiency during the entire deployment time in accordance with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative. Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.
Deployment
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Availability for departure in maximum 48-72 hours after the acceptance of the offer, and ability to become operational on site according to WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.
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Ability to be operational in accordance with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.’
(2)
The following Section 9 is added:
‘9.
Temporary shelter capacities
Tasks
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Provide temporary shelter to affected population, including space for housing, hygiene and sanitation, basic medical service and social gathering.
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Provide staff to handle, mobilise, assemble, put in place and maintain shelter units when required. Where a handover takes place, train the relevant personnel (local and/or international) before the pull out of the shelter capacity.
Capacities
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Shelter capacity ( 1 ) composed by assets capable to shelter –when deployed simultaneously – a minimum of 5 000 persons.
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The capacity is to be constituted by a physical reserve or of a virtual shelter reserve of shelter units, or both.
Main components
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Shelter units with heating (for winter conditions), appropriate aeration systems (for summer conditions), and basic material, such as beds with sleeping-bag and/or blankets.
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Sanitation and hygiene facilities.
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Infirmary for basic medical services.
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Multi-purpose facilities for preparation and consumption of food, distribution of drinkable water, social assembling.
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Power generators and lighting equipment.
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Basic hygiene kits.
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Appropriate storage facilities in the Union ( 2 ) , logistics and adequate stockpiling monitoring system.
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Appropriate arrangements ensuring the adequate transport and delivery of the units.
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Appropriately trained personnel and assets to handle, mobilise, assemble, put in place and maintain physical assets in the affected area.
Self-sufficiency
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The capacity is to ensure self-sufficiency during the first 96 hours of deployment.
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Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.
Deployment
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Availability for departure of physical reserve maximum 24 hours after the acceptance of the offer.
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The duration of the mission and, if applicable, the start of the handover process are to be defined in agreement with the affected country.
( 1 ) The shelter capacity is to comply with the minimum shelter standards of the chapter ‘Shelter and Settlement’ of the ‘Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response’. Vulnerable people’s needs are to be considered.
( 2 ) For the purposes of the logistics of storage facilities, ‘in the Union’ encompasses the territories of Member States and Participating States to the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.’
