The European Union established the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in 2004 to promote an area of peace, stability and prosperity in its immediate neighbourhood with the Countries to the East (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) and to the South (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, and Tunisia). It aims at developing tighter and more beneficial relations between the EU and her neighbours in political, economic and cultural domains, and in particular on security matters, as well as extending and enhancing current existing cooperation frameworks in order to reduce the likelihood of any new divide appearing. The strengthening of the safety and security with the EU Neighbourhood Countries, also from an economical and resources sharing angle, is identified as a great strategic priority by the European Commission and the EU and is an issue that has acquired a more relevant importance following the latest developments in some of these countries. One particular area of shared concern is the control of chemical accident risks. The Seveso Directive has existed as legislation in the European Union since 1982 and holds a long history of regulatory responses aimed at controlling sites where dangerous substances are processed and stored and where accidents may result in fatalities and serious injury to people or damage to the environment. As such, there is considerable logic in accelerating implementation of a Seveso approach in Neighbourhood Countries to continue the momentum towards Seveso becoming a standard approach to chemical accident prevention and preparedness worldwide. For this reason, the Civil Protection Mechanism 2014-2020 (Decision No. 1313/2013 of the European Parliament), managed under DG-ECHO, introduced a new initiative, Seveso Capacity Building in EU Neighbourhood Countries strategy to collaborate with its neighbours on strengthening chemical accident prevention and preparedness programmes. The Joint Research Centre’s Major Accident Hazard Bureau is leading the implementation of this initiative on behalf of DG-ECHO. The JRC therefore has analysed its own experience in capacity building, conducted research and sought expert feedback to produce this strategy document for the initiative. This report presents the final strategy that is the outcome of this process.
VAN WIJK Lorenzo;
WOOD Maureen;
GYENES Zsuzsanna;
VETERE ARELLANO Ana Lisa;
2016-01-22
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC99979
978-92-79-54590-0,
978-92-79-54591-7,
1018-5593,
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 27705,
OP LB-NA-27705-EN-C,
OP LB-NA-27705-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC99979,
10.2788/103903,
10.2788/017672 (online),
