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maintaining a dialogue with the Member States’ contact points in order to ensure an effective and coherent Union disaster response contribution through the Union Mechanism to the overall relief effort, in particular by: informing Member States without delay of the full requests for assistance; supporting a common assessment of the situation and needs, providing technical advice and/or facilitating the coordination on site of assistance through the presence of a civil protection expert team on site; sharing relevant assessments and analyses with all relevant actors; providing an overview of assistance being offered by Member States and other actors; advising on the type of assistance required in order to ensure that the assistance provided is consistent with the needs assessments; and assisting in overcoming any practical difficulties in the delivery of assistance in areas such as transit and customs;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.