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The following prevention and preparedness actions shall be eligible for financial assistance: co-financing of projects, studies, workshops, surveys and similar actions and activities referred to in Article 5; co-financing peer reviews, referred to in point (d) of Article 6 and point (j) of Article 8; maintaining the functions provided by the ERCC, in accordance with point (a) of Article 8; preparing for the mobilisation and dispatch of the expert teams referred to in point (d) of Article 8 and Article 17 and developing and maintaining a surge capacity through a network of trained experts of Member States, referred to in point (f) of Article 8; establishing and maintaining the CECIS and tools to enable communication and sharing of information between the ERCC and the contact points of the Member States and of other participants in the context of the Union Mechanism; contributing to the development of transnational detection, early warning and alert systems of European interest, in order to enable a rapid response as well as to promote the inter-linkage between national early warning and alert systems and their linkage to the ERCC and the CECIS. Those systems shall take into account and build upon existing and future information, monitoring or detection sources and systems; planning response operations under the Union Mechanism, in accordance with Article 10; supporting the preparedness activities described in Article 13; developing the EERC, as referred to in Article 11, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article. identifying gaps in the EERC in accordance with Article 12 and supporting Member States in addressing those gaps by co-financing new response capacities, up to a maximum of 20 % of the eligible costs, provided that: the need for new capacities is confirmed by risk assessments; the gap identification process set out in Article 12 demonstrates that those capacities are not available to Member States; those capacities are developed by Member States, either acting individually or through a consortium; those capacities are committed to the voluntary pool for a minimum period of two years; and such co-financing of those capacities is cost-effective. Where appropriate, preference shall be given to consortia of Member States cooperating on a common risk; ensuring the availability of logistical support for the expert teams referred to in Article 17(1); facilitating the coordination of Member States' pre-positioning of disaster response capacities inside the Union in accordance with point (g) of Article 8; and supporting the provision of advice on prevention and preparedness measures through the deployment of an expert team on site, upon the request of a Member State, third country, the United Nations or its agencies, as referred to in Article 5(2) and Article 13(3).

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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.