Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/288 of 22 February 2022 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/570 as regards rescEU shelter capacities and the modification of quality requirements for Emergency Medical Teams Type 3 capacities (notified under document C(2022) 963) (Text with EEA relevance)

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

Article 1

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.

Article 2

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 — 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. — Provide specialised care or support functions, including if needed via specialised care teams as described by the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative. Capacities — Minimum treatment capability in accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative. — Day and night services (covering 24/7 if necessary). Main components — In accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative. Self-sufficiency — 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 — 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. — 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 — Provide temporary shelter to affected population, including space for housing, hygiene and sanitation, basic medical service and social gathering. — 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 — Shelter capacity  ( 1 ) composed by assets capable to shelter –when deployed simultaneously – a minimum of 5 000 persons. — The capacity is to be constituted by a physical reserve or of a virtual shelter reserve of shelter units, or both. Main components — 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. — Sanitation and hygiene facilities. — Infirmary for basic medical services. — Multi-purpose facilities for preparation and consumption of food, distribution of drinkable water, social assembling. — Power generators and lighting equipment. — Basic hygiene kits. — Appropriate storage facilities in the Union  ( 2 ) , logistics and adequate stockpiling monitoring system. — Appropriate arrangements ensuring the adequate transport and delivery of the units. — Appropriately trained personnel and assets to handle, mobilise, assemble, put in place and maintain physical assets in the affected area. Self-sufficiency — The capacity is to ensure self-sufficiency during the first 96 hours of deployment. — Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies. Deployment — Availability for departure of physical reserve maximum 24 hours after the acceptance of the offer. — 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.’