Early warning in major emergencies#Declaration of the European Parliament on early warning for citizens in major emergencies
Date: 2008-03-11
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: civil defence, disclosure of information, environmental risk prevention, information system, mass media, natural hazard, state of emergency

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(c) vessels that come to anchor to be fuelled from land-based sources;

(d) the use of emission allowance trading to contain emissions be treated as a possibility deserving careful
consideration, without punishing this mode of transport which is the most environmentally friendly
(together with inland waterways) nor favour other modes which impose a heavier burden on the envir-
onment; and

(e) an integrated European rivers policy to be agreed and therefore endorses initiatives such as Naiades (An
Integrated European Action Programme for Inland Waterway Transport), which further improve inland
waterway transport and the environmental performance of inland waterway transport;

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Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in the modernisation of port facilities both
for the EU's seaports and for those located on internal waterways, in order to permit the swift transfer of
goods and passengers from one transport system to another, thereby enabling a reduction in energy
consumption in the field of transport;

Considers it essential to improve logistics, load factors in freight transport and intermodal transport;
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therefore advocates full completion of the internal market in transport and urges the Commission to build
as soon as possible on its abovementioned action plan for freight transport logistics in Europe, placing par-
ticular emphasis on developing the concept of ‘green corridors’;

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest more in research in the field of transport,
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to enable more energy-efficient and CO2-emission-reducing technologies to be developed; calls on the
Commission in the 2009 review of the multi-annual financial framework to increase significantly the overall
financial effort towards R&D concerning the environment, energy and transport;

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Gives the Commission backing for initiatives which interlink sustainable transport and tourism more
effectively, such as the use of more environmentally friendly means of transport, e.g. combining public-
transport use and cycling;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission, and to the

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governments and parliaments of the Member States.

Early warning in major emergencies

P6_TA(2008)0088

Declaration of the European Parliament on early warning for citizens in major emergencies

The European Parliament,

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— having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas it is important to have efficient early warning (EW) for citizens in case of imminent or devel-

oping major emergencies, with a view to reducing suffering and the loss of human life,

B. whereas the establishment of EW and alert systems has been repeatedly requested by Parliament and is

provided for in several existing and upcoming legislative acts,

C. whereas EW systems involve warning authorities by means of regional networks for the prevention of
risks (natural, technological, social) and alerting citizens via telecommunications networks (radio, TV,
sirens, mobile phones, etc.),

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D. whereas the EU lacks a general, multilingual, simplified and efficient system for alerting citizens about
imminent or developing emergencies, and whereas the implementation of such a system is directly rele-
vant to several EU policies (telecommunications, environment, health, internal security and civil protec-
tion) and also affects others (transport, energy and tourism),

E. whereas the EU should establish such a system,

in combination with appropriate information and

training campaigns, to promote life-saving behaviour among threatened citizens,

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Calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement the necessary processes and resources
to develop an efficient EW system for citizens in case of imminent or developing major emergencies
throughout the EU;

Calls on the Commission to present appropriate legislative proposals in this field, taking into account

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all the risks and policies involved;

Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the

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Council and the Commission.

List of signatories

John Bowis, Sharon Bowles,

Iles Braghetto, Hiltrud Breyer,

Adamos Adamou, Vittorio Agnoletto, Vincenzo Aita, Gabriele Albertini, Alexander Alvaro, Jan Andersson,
Georgs Andrejevs, Alfonso Andria, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Roberta Angelilli, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Kader
Arif, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Francisco Assis, Alexandru Athanasiu, Marie-Hélène Aubert, Jean-Pierre Audy,
Margrete Auken, Liam Aylward, Peter Baco, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Alessandro
Battilocchio, Edit Bauer, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Christopher Beazley, Zsolt László Becsey, Angelika Beer, Ivo
Belet, Irena Belohorská, Monika Beňová, Thijs Berman, Slavi Binev, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Guy Bono,
Mario Borghezio, Josep Borrell Fontelles, Umberto Bossi, Victor Boștinaru, Costas Botopoulos, Bernadette
Bourzai,
Jan Březina, André Brie, Renato
Brunetta, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Wolfgang Bulfon, Udo Bullmann, Nicodim Bulzesc, Ieke van den Burg,
Niels Busk, Cristian Silviu Bușoi, Philippe Busquin, Simon Busuttil,
Jerzy Buzek, Marco Cappato,
Marie-Arlette Carlotti, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Françoise Castex, Giuseppe
Castiglione, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Giulietto Chiesa, Ole Christensen, Silvia Ciornei,
Jean Louis Cottigny,
Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Dorette Corbey, Giovanna Corda,
Michael Cramer, Brian Crowley, Magor Imre Csibi, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Daniel
Dăianu, Joseph Daul, Dragoș Florin David, Bairbre de Brún, Arūnas Degutis, Véronique De Keyser, Gianni
De Michelis, Gérard Deprez, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Harlem Désir, Nirj Deva, Christine De Veyrac, Mia De
Vits, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Valdis Dombrovskis, Beniamino
Donnici, Bert Doorn, Brigitte Douay, Den Dover, Mojca Drčar Murko, Constantin Dumitriu, Michl Ebner,
Edite Estrela, Harald Ettl, Göran Färm, Carlo Fatuzzo, Emanuel
Jardim Fernandes, Anne Ferreira, Elisa
Ferreira, Ilda Figueiredo, Věra Flasarová, Hélène Flautre, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Nicole
Fontaine, Glyn Ford, Janelly Fourtou, Armando França, Ingo Friedrich, Sorin Frunzăverde, Urszula Gacek,
Kinga Gál, Milan Gaľa,
Jas
Iratxe García Pérez, Giuseppe Gargani, Patrick Gaubert,
Gawronski, Evelyne Gebhardt, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Georgios Georgiou, Bronisław Geremek, Lidia Joanna
Geringer de Oedenberg, Claire Gibault, Adam Gierek, Ioannis Gklavakis, Bogdan Golik, Bruno Gollnisch,
Ana Maria Gomes, Donata Gottardi, Genowefa Grabowska, Louis Grech, Nathalie Griesbeck, Elly
de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Mathieu Grosch, Françoise Grossetête, Lilli Gruber,
Ignasi Guardans Cambó,
Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Umberto Guidoni, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Fiona Hall, David
Hammerstein, Benoît Hamon, Gábor Harangozó, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Satu Hassi, Adeline Hazan,
Anna Hedh, Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Edit Herczog, Esther Herranz García, Jim Higgins, Ian Hudghton,
Stephen Hughes, Alain Hutchinson, Jana Hybášková, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi,
Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Lily Jacobs, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Lívia Járóka,
Rumiana Jeleva, Anne E. Jensen, Pierre Jonckheer, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison,
Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Gisela Kallenbach, Sajjad Karim, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Piia-Noora Kauppi,
Metin Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Glenys Kinnock, Evgeni Kirilov, Ewa Klamt, Wolf Klinz, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch,
Jaromír Kohlíček, Maria Eleni Koppa, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Miloš Koterec, Sergej Kozlík, Guntars Krasts,
Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Wiesław Stefan Kuc,
Jan Jerzy Kułakowski, Sepp
Kusstatscher, André Laignel, Alain Lamassoure, Jean Lambert, Stavros Lambrinidis, Vytautas Landsbergis,
Anne Laperrouze, Romano Maria La Russa, Stéphane Le Foll, Roselyne Lefrançois, Bernard Lehideux,
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, Fernand Le Rachinel,
Janusz Lewandowski, Bogusław Liberadzki,
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Alain Lipietz, Pia Elda Locatelli, Andrea Losco, Caroline

Jean-Paul Gauzès,

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Pannella, Dimitrios

Papadimoulis, Atanas

Lucas, Sarah Ludford, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Mary Lou McDonald, Edward
McMillan-Scott, Jamila Madeira, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Vladimír Maňka, Thomas Mann, Mario Mantovani,
Marian-Jean Marinescu, Helmuth Markov, David Martin, Maria Matsouka, Mario Mauro, Manolis
Mavrommatis, Manuel Medina Ortega, Erik Meijer, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy
Meyer Pleite, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Miroslav Mikolášik, Gay Mitchell, Nickolay Mladenov, Viktória Mohácsi,
Javier Moreno Sánchez, Luisa Morgantini, Philippe Morillon, Elisabeth Morin, Roberto Musacchio, Cristiana
Muscardini, Francesco Musotto, Alessandra Mussolini, Pasqualina Napoletano, Robert Navarro, Cătălin-Ioan
Nechifor, Catherine Neris, Bill Newton Dunn,
James Nicholson, Rareș-Lucian Niculescu, Ljudmila
Novak, Raimon Obiols i Germà, Vural Öger, Cem Özdemir, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Janusz
Onyszkiewicz, Dumitru Oprea, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Csaba Őry, Siiri Oviir, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marie
Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Marco
Paparizov, Georgios
Papastamkos, Neil Parish, Ioan Mircea Pașcu, Vincent Peillon, Alojz Peterle, Maria Petre, Tobias Pflüger, Willi
Piecyk, Rihards Pīks, João de Deus Pinheiro, Józef Pinior, Gianni Pittella, Zita Pleštinská, Rovana Plumb,
Guido Podestà, Anni Podimata, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Bernard Poignant, Adriana Poli Bortone, José
Javier Pomés Ruiz, Mihaela Popa, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Bernd Posselt, Christa Prets, Pierre Pribetich, Vittorio
Prodi, Jacek Protasiewicz, Luís Queiró, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Miloslav Ransdorf, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen,
José Ribeiro e Castro, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Karin
Vladimír Remek, Karin Resetarits,
Riis-Jørgensen, Giovanni Rivera, Michel Rocard, Bogusław Rogalski, Luca Romagnoli, Raül Romeva i Rueda,
Wojciech Roszkowski, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouček, Martine Roure, Christian Rovsing, Heide
Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Tokia Saïfi, Aloyzas Sakalas, Katrin Saks, María Isabel Salinas
García, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Manuel António dos Santos, Amalia Sartori, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Gilles
Savary, Toomas Savi, Pierre Schapira, Margaritis Schinas, Olle Schmidt, Pál Schmitt, György Schöpflin, Inger
Segelström, Adrian Severin, Brian Simpson, Kathy Sinnott, Csaba Sógor, Bogusław Sonik, Bart Staes,
Grażyna Staniszewska, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Petya Stavreva, Dirk Sterckx, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan,
Dimitar Stoyanov, Daniel Strož, Alexander Stubb, Margie Sudre, László Surján, Gianluca Susta, Hannes
Swoboda, József Szájer, Andrzej Jan Szejna, István Szent-Iványi, Antonio Tajani, Hannu Takkula, Andres
Tarand, Salvatore Tatarella, Britta Thomsen, Marianne Thyssen, Radu Țîrle, Gary Titley, Patrizia Toia, László
Jacques Toubon, Antonios Trakatellis, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos
Tőkés, Ewa Tomaszewska,
Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Feleknas Uca, Vladimir Urutchev,
Inese Vaidere,
Nikolaos Vakalis, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Johan Van Hecke, Anne Van Lancker, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna,
Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Ari Vatanen, Yannick Vaugrenard, Armando Veneto, Riccardo Ventre, Donato Tommaso
Veraldi, Bernadette Vergnaud, Marcello Vernola, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Kristian Vigenin, Cornelis Visser,
Oldřich Vlasák, Dominique Vlasto, Johannes Voggenhuber, Sahra Wagenknecht, Diana Wallis, Henri Weber,
Anders Wijkman,
Janusz Wojciechowski, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Francis Wurtz, Anna
Záborská, Zbigniew Zaleski, Stefano Zappalà, Tomáš Zatloukal, Tatjana Ždanoka, Dushana Zdravkova, Josef
Zieleniec, Roberts Zīle, Gabriele Zimmer, Marian Zlotea, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka

Iuliu Winkler,