PA SECURE NEWSLETTER 2017/2

Dear Friends, PA Secure team at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States presents the second issue of the Newsletter in 2017. We would like to share with you some news on key developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter…

Byadmin_bsrAugust 21, 20170Comments

Law enforcement

German-Estonian border control cooperation: an internship story

At the beginning of last June, two German Federal police officers Jasmin Bezler and Sergei Bachmann had a chance to test their knowledge and know-how about border control at the external border of the European Union. Jasmin was sent to South Prefecture and Sergei to East Prefecture for an internship. Just to give the idea…

Byadmin_bsrJuly 20, 20170Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Steering Group meeting – better cooperation, more Flagships, new members

15-16 June 2017, the 7th Meeting of the PA Secure Steering Group, was held in Hamburg, Germany. During the meeting the state of play in the field of civil protection in the Baltic Sea Region was reviewed, as well as the status of projects and processes. Mr. Alexander Somoza, the representative of the European Commission’s…

Byadmin_bsrJune 17, 20170Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects Research

CBSS helps bringing state-of-the-art Fire and Rescue Technologies to the Region

CBSS Secretariat's Civil Protection team participated in a kick-off meeting of the new project, FIRE-IN, set to improve national and European fire and rescue capability development. FIRE-IN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme and consists of 16 partners from 8 European countries, representing research, practitioners, governmental agencies and business. Within…

Byadmin_bsrMay 24, 20170Comments

Civil Protection

Directors General for Civil Protection adopt Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in BSR

The Directors General for the Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region held their 15th meeting, which took place in Iceland on 11 May 2017. The meeting, chaired by Hjálmar Björgvinsson, Superintendent at the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, resulted in an adoption of a historic Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection…

Byadmin_bsrMay 11, 20170Comments

Sendai Framework

Seminar on implementing Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN Sendai Framework

20 April 2017, PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat attended a seminar on implementing the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), which today is on top of the international agenda related to managing future risks. The seminar was hosted by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs…

Byadmin_bsrApril 20, 20170Comments

PA Secure

EUSBSR Spotlight blog about PA Secure

Communication team of the EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region website started a series of blog posts, called Spotlight, introducing the concrete work done by different Horizontal Actions and Policy Areas of the EUSBSR. The latest blog post was dedicated to Policy Area Secure, describing who we are, what we do and our future plans: http://www.balticsea-region-strategy.eu/highlights/item/12-policy-area-secure-civil-protection-law-enforcement-safer-baltic-sea-region

Byadmin_bsrApril 11, 20170Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Newsletter 2017/1

Dear Friends, PA Secure team at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States presents the first issue of the Newsletter in 2017. We would like to share with you some news on key developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter will also…

Byadmin_bsrMarch 30, 20170Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Gaps to Caps final report

The project started off with the question “Do we have the capability/capabilities needed to deal with the risks we are currently facing?.” Final report on national capability assessments and risk assessments is published together with a survey among all project partners. This report gives an overview of relevant aspects of the civil protection systems involved, differences and…

Byadmin_bsrFebruary 23, 20170Comments

CBRN

Expert Group on Nuclear Radiation Safety met in Stockholm

Expert Group on Nuclear Radiation Safety (EGNRS) gathered at the CBSS Secretariat for its regular meeting on 30-31 of January 2017. Among the topics discussed by the experts from Russia, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden were recent developments in the field of nuclear safety in each country as well as opportunities for future…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 31, 20170Comments