Equipping the EU to respond to disasters - European civil protection pool

The European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP, or 'the Pool') was created in 2014 to improve the predictability and the quality of the UCPM response to disasters. Concretely, Member States and UCPM Participating States can commit response capacities on a voluntary basis to the ECPP, making them available for UCPM response operations for an agreed number of years. In addition, these response capacities must complete a certification process to ascertain whether they are fit for international deployments. All relevant information on how the ECPP is str

Source: op.europa.eu