European Preparedness Union Strategy
Summary
The Preparedness Union Strategy would improve EU anticipation, coordination and response across crises through an EU risk and threat assessment, crisis dashboard and an upgraded Emergency Response Coordination Centre. It also proposes stockpiling, minimum preparedness requirements, revised civil-protection arrangements, early-warning guidance and preparedness training. The strategy includes measures for public-private continuity planning, population self-sufficiency during extreme disruptions, EU-wide exercises, civil-military coordination and cooperation with partner countries.
Action items
1–6 of 29 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
EU Comprehensive Risk and Threat Assessment: The Commission and High Representative will develop a cross-sector, all-hazards EU risk and threat assessment integrating internal and external security insights, real-time early warning data, satellite monitoring, and national assessments; the Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity (SIAC) will be reinforced as the single intelligence entry point to feed the exercise. [from 2025]
- Item 2
EU Crisis Dashboard: A cross-sectoral crisis dashboard will be developed to aggregate sectoral rapid alert systems and provide decision-makers with a unified operational picture, feeding directly into College of Commissioners discussions in a Security College format. [from 2025]
- Item 3
Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) Upgrade: The ERCC will be strengthened to produce regular all-hazard operational-outlook briefings, analyse cascading crisis effects across sectors, and develop crisis scenarios to support proactive rather than reactive emergency management.
- Item 4
EU Training Catalogue and Lessons Learned Platform: The Commission and High Representative will develop a catalogue of preparedness training methods and guidelines for Member States, an EU-wide skills development plan covering security, defence, and crisis management, and a cross-institutional lessons-learned exchange platform to improve future response efforts.
- Item 5
EU Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS): A new governmental Earth observation service will be established to provide secure, persistent, and targeted satellite sensing for emergency management and security purposes, building on and reinforcing existing Copernicus capabilities.
- Item 6
Minimum Preparedness Requirements: Building on full transposition of the CER and NIS2 Directives, the Commission will identify additional sectors not covered by existing legislation and put forward recommendations on minimum preparedness requirements with a monitoring mechanism aligned to Disaster Resilience Goals and NATO resilience baseline requirements.