EMERSYS
"Toward an integrated, joint cross-border detection system and harmonized rapid responses procedures to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear emergencies"

General objective: Provide authorities from the entire Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border area with means for the coordinated implementation of European Community strategies and legislation, as well as of bilateral-Conventions, regarding emergency preparedness, planning and intervention in case of chemical, biological and radiological/nuclear (CBRN) emergencies.

The EMERSYS project is dedicated to streamline coordination between emergency authorities from the RO-BG cross-border area in practical implementation of legal and political undertakings (SEVESO II, ECURIE, UNECE Convention on trans boundary effects of industrial accidents), by providing effective means for a more harmonized emergency management on the local and regional (NUTII) levels, based on a common approach, from a European perspective.

The project focuses on creation of a unitary emergency infrastructure for early detection and intervention related to chemical and nuclear facilities, as well as biological and radiological situations of major risk from the Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border area. In the event of an emergency with off-site affects, this will enable for the rapid detection and notification of releases, the monitoring of the progression of an accident from the moment of detection, to forecasting and estimating the ongoing and the potential releases, as a function of time.

The EMERSYS project will put in place a systems that joins forces, shares resources and eliminates duplication of national efforts related to CBRN events, providing thus for an economically efficient and sustainable, rapid cross-border response force, capable to react as a single unit, for the mutual benefit of the population from the Romanian-Bulgarian border area.




Specific objectives:

Enhance the technical capability for detection and notification of CBRN events with potential trans boundary effect and implementation of a joint decision support tool (DST) at the level of all Emergency Inspectorates/Civil Protection Directorates from the entire Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border area.

Integrate the newly created infrastructure and the existing national early-warning system and interconnect the Emergency Inspectorates/ Directorates Civil Protection from the cross-border area by setting-up a platform for bilateral and on-line exchange of information related to hazardous and radioactive substances.

Harmonize local plans and procedures for off-site intervention in case of major chemical accidents, biological and radiological/nuclear emergencies and development of collaboration plans and protocols.

Enhance the emergency expertise from the cross-border area by training the operational staff.

Raise public awareness in the cross-border area related to technological risk.