Presentations of MIRG-EU Final Conference are now online. #mirgfc
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Gelton: The EU Voluntary Pool can combine existing resources and teams. #mirgfc
Gelton: MIRG is in line with the Dutch approach, picked up regionally but fulfilling requirements of other Safety Regions. #mirgfc
Ir. Paul Gelton is Director of the Resilience Department of the Office of the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism.#mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: How interesting it would be if other countries can profit from MIRG-EU. #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: Civil Protection is not centralized, but needs national support to be successful. #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: What type of potential coverage would you like to give to MIRG. Outside North Sea area? Even outside EU? #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: The voluntary pool is a system whereby Member States can pre-commit response capacities for EU missions. #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: 'Emergency Response Coordination Centre is actually yours' #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer: similar disasters occur all over Europe and ask for support at European level. #mirgfc
Fink-Hooijer:Why do we need Europe on top of all these complexities?The excellency of MIRG-EU fits the EU Civil Protection programme.#mirgfc
next dr. Florika Fink-Hooijer, director Strategy, Policy and International Cooperation at DG for Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection.#mirgfc
Lt. Charles-Henri Thouaille of the Prefecture Maritime Channel and North Sea looks forward to future cooperation with SDIS62. #mirgfc
Moreau: In 2014, the navy of Cherbourg joined the MIRG EU project and participated in training and exercises. #mirgfc
Col. Laurent Moreau, Departmental Director of Fire and Rescue Services Pas de Calais: 140 MIRG-EU men trained on simulator in Calais.#mirgfc
Captain Jean-Michel Chevalier deputy to the prefect for the Channel and North Sea talks about cooperation with SDIS62. #mirgfc
Finnsson: Lessons learnt: we need standard routines, equipment and education; port of refuge; and be prepared for large vessels #mirgfc
Lesson learnt from Fernanada incident: long term incidents always need a plan A and B. #mirgfc
