This will enable the EU to develop a comprehensive and coherent approach in security-related measures abroad while increasing EU visibility and efficiency. The scope of the RRM draws on existing Community instruments which are listed in an annex to the Regulation. All these instruments pursue the alleviation of crises, through human rights work, election monitoring, institution building, media support, border management, humanitarian missions, police training and the provision of police equipment, civil emergency assistance, rehabilitation, reconstruction, pacification, resettlement and mediation. The main purpose of the RRM is to deliver these and other instruments as rapid stabilisers and as precursors for eventual longer-term assistance. A dividing line has been drawn between the scope of this facility and the regulation concerning humanitarian aid.
Humanitarian action is focused on the individual.
It seeks to preserve life and relieve human suffering. Interventions under the RRF are rather aimed at the preservation or reestablishment of the civic structures necessary for political, social and economic stability. While ECHO is politically neutral, the RRM is intended to operate in the context of crisis management. The RRM will operate through a separate budget line reinforced by the authority of the Commission to decide quickly on urgent interventions. The total endowment within the budget for 2001 amounts to 20 million and for 2002 to 25 million in the financial perspectives.