The External Dimension of the EU Disaster Response
This chapter analyses how the European Union responds to overseas natural and man-made disasters, and discusses the main legal issues involved in Union’s action. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the existing instruments established by the EU in
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The External Dimension of the EU Disaster Response Federico Casolari
Abstract This chapter analyses how the European Union responds to overseas natural and man-made disasters, and discusses the main legal issues involved in Union’s action. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the existing instruments established by the EU institutions before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The analysis reveals a multifaceted scenario: besides some general tools, which are complementary and thus form a global platform for EU response in overseas disasters, the action of the Union has been developed through sector instruments that in some cases risk undermining the efficiency and coherence of the response. The second part of the chapter discusses the innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in this domain. In particular, it shows how these innovations (such as the establishment of a general framework of the EU external action, the establishment of new co-ordinating tools and tasks, the provision of a new explicit legal basis for humanitarian aid) may contribute to ensure a more efficient and consistent management of the external dimension of the EU disaster response.
Keywords European Union Lisbon Treaty External action Humanitarian aid assistance Civil protection Crisis management
Contents 6.1 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 6.2 The pre-Lisbon Instruments for Disaster Response Outside the Union....................... 6.2.1 The Development Cooperation Policy............................................................... 6.2.2 The External Dimension of the Civil Protection Mechanism ..........................
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F. Casolari (&) Università degli Studi di Bologna, via Zamboni 22, I-40126, Bologna, BO, Italy e-mail: [email protected]
A. de Guttry et al. (eds.), International Disaster Response Law, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-6704-882-8_6, T.M.C. ASSER PRESS, The Hague, The Netherlands, and the author(s) 2012
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6.2.3 The Crisis Management Tool............................................................................. 6.2.4 The External Dimension of the EU Sector Policies Dealing with Natural and Man-made Disasters .................................................................................... 6.3 The Path to Lisbon......................................................................................................... 6.4 The Lisbon Age: A New Legal Framework for the EU External Disaster Response........................................................................................................... 6.4.1 The External Disaster Response as Part of the New Union’s External Action..................................................................................... 6.4.2 The New Legal Bases for Humanitarian Assistance......................................... 6.5 Concluding Remarks ...............................................................................
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