Brussels, 16.7.2025

COM(2025) 548 final

ANNEX

to the

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and financing of health emergency preparedness and response, and repealing Decision No 1313/2013/EU (Union Civil Protection Mechanism)

{SEC(2025) 545 final} - {SWD(2025) 545 final} - {SWD(2025) 546 final}


Annex

Section 1
Possible eligible prevention actions (non-exhaustive list)

Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (a) of Article 4(2):

(a)Co-financing of projects, studies, workshops, surveys, peer reviews and similar actions and activities;

(b)Supporting Member States in developing and making publicly available risk assessments, assessments of risk management capabilities, and risk management planning at national or appropriate sub-national level;

(c)Actions to facilitate access, sharing and improving the knowledge base on disaster risks, including the uptake of scientific research and innovation results, best practices and information, common interests with third countries and international organisations, risk assessments, mapping activities and risk management activities of Member States;

(d)In line with international commitments, supporting Member States in improving the collection of disaster loss data at national or at the appropriate sub-national level;

(e)Supporting Member States to improve cross-sectoral disaster risk management planning at Union level;

(f)Supporting Member States in awareness-raising, public information and education, and their efforts in the provision of public information on alert systems, including on a cross-border level;

(g)Supporting Member States in developing Union disaster resilience goals in the area of civil protection;

(h)Taking additional supporting and complementary prevention action necessary to achieve the objective specified in point (a) of Article 4(2).

Section 2
Possible eligible capacity building actions (non-exhaustive list)

Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (b) of Article 4(2):

(a)Actions facilitating the processing and disseminating of knowledge, lessons learnt, and information relevant to the Union Mechanism, including through dedicated online tools;

(b)Technical and financial assistance programmes, including grants;

(c)Setting up and managing training and exercises programmes for civil protection, prevention, preparedness and response planning to serious cross-border threats to health, including the management of medical countermeasures, civil – military cooperation, and an exchange of experts programme for civil protection and disaster management personnel;

(d)Setting up and managing a programme on uptake of research and innovation results, and encouraging the introduction and use of relevant new approaches or technologies or both for the purpose of the Union Mechanism including their acquisition;

(e)Taking additional supporting and complementary prevention action necessary to achieve the objective specified in point (b) of Article 4(2).

Section 3
Possible eligible preparedness actions (non-exhaustive list)

Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (c) of Article 4(2):

(a)Managing the ERCC and its tools, including CECIS;

(b)Working with Member States to develop and integrate transnational detection and early warning systems of Union interest in order to mitigate the immediate effects of disasters;

(c)Working with Member States on the development of tools providing public information on ongoing alerts in Europe;

(d)Working with Member States to maintain and further develop situational awareness and analysis capability, including scientific and technical advisory expertise, and translate scientific information into operational information;

(e)Working with Member States to monitor disasters and, where relevant, climate change impacts, and provide advice based on scientific knowledge thereof;

(f)Working with Member States to create, maintain and develop European scientific partnerships to cover natural and man-made hazards, promote the linkage between national early warning and alert systems and the linkage of such systems with the ERCC and other relevant IT systems;

(g)Supporting the efforts of Member States and mandated international organisations with scientific knowledge, uptake of innovative technologies and expertise;

(h)Facilitating the coordination of the Member States’ pre-positioning of disaster response capacities inside the Union;

(i)Positioning and coordinating response capacities at the request of a Member State, including for the purpose of training, exercises, exchange of knowledge and improving interoperability of capacities and intervention teams;

(j)Supporting efforts to improve the interoperability of modules and other response capacities, taking into account best practices at the level of the Member States and at international level;

(k)Taking, within its sphere of competence, the necessary actions to facilitate host nation support, including developing and updating, together with Member States, guidelines on host nation support, on the basis of operational experience;

(l)Supporting Member States, upon their request, in respect of disasters happening within their territories by providing the possibility of using European scientific partnerships for targeted scientific analysis. The resulting analyses may be shared via CECIS, with the agreement of the affected Member States;

(m)Undertaking actions relating to the development and deployability of the European Civil Protection Pool, which may be funded at a rate of up to 100%, including the covering of:

(i)training and exercise costs, including for military personnel,

(ii)registration and certification costs,

(iii)adaptation costs for the upgrade or repair of ECPP response capacities, which includes costs related to operability, interoperability of modules and other response capacities, autonomy, self-sufficiency, transportability, packaging, security and other necessary costs, provided that they specifically relate to the participation in the European Civil Protection Pool.

(n)Undertaking actions relating to the development, maintenance and deployability of rescEU, which may be funded at a rate of up to 100%, including the covering of:

(i)equipment,

(ii)maintenance, including repair,

(iii)insurance,

(iv)training,

(v)warehousing,

(vi)registration and certification,

(vii)consumables,

(viii)personnel required to ensure the availability and deployability of rescEU capacities.

(o)Taking additional supporting and complementary prevention action necessary to achieve the objective specified in point (c) of Article 4(2).

Section 4
Possible eligible response actions (non-exhaustive list)

(1)Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (d) of Article 4(2), which may be funded at a rate of up to 75%:

(a)transportation of spontaneously offered assistance not registered in the European Civil Protection Pool or rescEU needed to respond to a disaster;

(b)access to equipment, transport and logistical resources and services in the form of access to the commercial market or other sources through the Commission, such as transport services procured from private or other entities;

(c)civil protection support to consular assistance to the citizens of the Union in disasters in third countries, while the final co-financing rate shall be progressive and depending on number of different EU citizens on board.

(2)Actions meeting the objective laid down point (d) of Article 4(2), which may be funded at a rate of up to 100%:

(a)access to equipment, transport and logistical resources and services in the form of access to the commercial market or other sources offered by the Member States, such as transport services procured from private or other entities;

(b)access to transport and logistical resources, where this is necessary to make the pooling of Member States’ assistance or rescEU operationally effective and where the costs relate to one or more of the following:

(i)short-term warehousing or longer-term logistical capacity to temporarily store and manage the assistance from Member States with a view to facilitating their coordinated transport,

(ii)transport and logistics from the Member State providing the assistance to the point where coordinated transport is taking place,

(iii)coordination, handing, and repackaging of Member States’ assistance to make maximum use of available transport capacities or to meet specific operational requirements,

(iv)local transport, and transit of pooled assistance with a view to ensuring a coordinated delivery at the final destination in the affected country,

(v)transport of the pooled assistance from the point where the pooling action takes place to final destination in the affected country,

(c)transport of spontaneously offered assistance not registered in the European Civil Protection Pool needed to respond to a crisis, as set out in Article 29(3) ;

(d)transport offered by Member States, including through military resources, of any assistance needed to respond to a disaster or crisis in exceptional and duly justified cases, where no commercial transport offers are available;

(e)activities necessary to organise transport for the conducting of medical evacuation, where the costs relate to one of the following:

(i)transport of the patient, including its companions, caregivers or legal guardians from the affected country to the transit medical facility or medevac hub, including local transport and transit,

(ii)use or establishing and managing facilities for reception and stabilisation of patients, including operational costs related to medical equipment and to staff necessary to subsequent transport of patients,

(iii)operational costs of essential staff accompanying the medical evacuation including deployment of assessment medical teams,

(iv)procurement of medical supplies and consumables, access to equipment for the use in the hubs or during the medical evacuation.

(f)facilitating transport for the purpose of temporary pre-positioning and coordination of response capacities.

(g)facilitating transport and other cost for the purpose of stand-by allocation and coordination of response capacities during periods of increased seasonal risk;

(h)undertaking additional necessary supporting and complementary action in order to facilitate the coordination of response in the most effective way;

(i)taking additional supporting and complementary prevention action necessary to achieve the objective specified in point (d) of Article 4(2);

(3)Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (d) of Article 4(2), which may be funded at a rate of up to 100%:

(a)facilitating transport and supporting the operation of registered ECPP capacities;

(b)facilitating transport and supporting the operation of rescEU capacities;

(c)preparing for the mobilisation and dispatch of the expert teams referred to in Article 33(1) and developing and maintaining a surge capacity through a network of trained experts of Member States;

(d)ensuring the availability of technical and logistical support, including the deployment of TAST, for experts and expert teams referred to in Article 33(1).

Section 5
Possible eligible cross-sectoral response to crisis actions (non-exhaustive list)

Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (e) of Article 4(2):

any response action or additional supporting and complementary action necessary to respond to a crisis.