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3) Increasing the preparedness and resilience in case of a bioterrorist event:
The goal of BIO3R (Bioterrorism Resilience, Research, Reaction) is to assess the operational
responses needed to improve the preparedness and resilience of the EU society and citizen in
the case of a bioterrorist event. BIO3R will study scenarios to reinforce the EU capabilities
in:
- research by exploring technology and health strategies, networking early-warning
and defence systems, and bio-hazard spread modelling;
- societal Reaction through the reinforcement of crisis-management policies,
networking and associated European public and law strategies, interconnecting
European national and local levels;
- resilience by mitigating bio-attacks with emergency counter-measures, training of
practitioners and by providing comprehensive information for EU citizens through a
specially developed web portal and a dedicated handbook model.
4) Protecting the drinking water supply:
The objective of WATERSAFE (On-Line Monitoring of Drinking Water for Public Security
from Deliberate or Accidental Contamination) aims to develop sensing and decontamination
technologies for optimising security and protection of networked drinking water distribution
systems against terrorist and criminal actions. It will harness breakthrough nanotechnologies
in sensing and detoxification. The aim is to give maximum protection by developing on-line
systems that can be widely deployed for “early warning” and detoxification, which are not
available today. New sensing and detoxification methods with tenfold improvement in
efficiency will be integrated into combined systems that are intelligent, sensitive, flexible,
compact and inexpensive, making them suitable for installation at vulnerable points in water
systems. The project joins 4 SMEs with research groups and a major water company (which
will participate to the validation of the prototype).
Un’ultima recente conferma europea è stata data dalla seconda esercitazione relativa agli EU
Emergency and Crisis Co-ordination Arrangements (EU-CCA) condotta con successo a
Bruxelles a settembre 2007. Gli accordi in questione garantiscono il supporto coordinativo di
Consiglio e Commissione agli Stati membri per una risposta rapida ed efficiente in caso di
crisi nazionali 47 . Lo scenario fittizio utilizzato è stato quello di un attacco biologico
47 Enhance EU crisis and consequence management, European Commission, Freedom, Security and Justice,
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/terrorism/response/fsj_terrorism_response_en.htm
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