30. Welcomes the Commission's decision to merge the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) and ECHO humanitarian aid crisis room to create a genuine 24/7 Emergency Response Centre as a planning and operational coordination platform as a step in the right direction and calls for this also to be implemented in real-time cooperation by the Member States, in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, in the areas of monitoring, issuing early-warnings and sounding the alarm; calls on the Commission to strengthen the Centre to enable ...[+++]it to serve as the central hub for prompt and effective coordination of all European in-kind assistance as well as financial humanitarian aid contributions; stipulates that it should function as the single entry point for requests for assistance related to all types of natural and man-made disasters in order to allow a coherent EU response;

9. Underlines that an effective crisis emergency centre requires a 24/7 operational capacity and should provide a coordination platform supporting other European services dealing with major disasters; Welcomes the Commission’s decision to merge the ECHO crisis room and the MIC to create an Emergency Response Centre that must be able, in full compliance with paragraph 2, to improve planning and coordination;

EU Strategy for Combating Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism Coordinated long-term strategy based on the report on recruitment to terrorism Establishment of an Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation Establishment of the High Level Group on Minorities The Programme on Health, Security aims at setting up EU cooperation and mutual assistance against biological or chemical attacks Establishment by the Community Civil Protection Mechanism of procedures for early warning, alert and activation of response through the central MIC RAS-BICHAT rapid alert system for deliberate releases of biological and chemical agents, improved co-operation with other alert mechanisms Set up of a RASCHEM – exchange of information and warnings between Poiso ...[+++]n Control Centres MediSYS, monitoring of Web-based information to provide advance, real-time, warning of suspicious circumstances or outbreaks Guidance on General preparedness and response planning and integration of EU dimension in all national health emergency plans is being prepared HEOF - Health emergency operations facility: improvement of the current crisis and communication centre Establishment of a secure general rapid alert system (ARGUS)

EU Strategy for Combating Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terrorism Coordinated long-term strategy based on the report on recruitment to terrorism Establishment of an Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation Establishment of the High Level Group on Minorities The Programme on Health, Security aims at setting up EU cooperation and mutual assistance against biological or chemical attacks Establishment by the Community Civil Protection Mechanism of procedures for early warning, alert and activation of response through the central MIC RAS-BICHAT rapid alert system for deliberate releases of biological and chemical agents, improved co-operation with other alert mechanisms Set up of a RASCHEM – exchange of information and warnings between Poiso ...[+++]n Control Centres MediSYS, monitoring of Web-based information to provide advance, real-time, warning of suspicious circumstances or outbreaks Guidance on General preparedness and response planning and integration of EU dimension in all national health emergency plans is being prepared HEOF - Health emergency operations facility: improvement of the current crisis and communication centre Establishment of a secure general rapid alert system (ARGUS)

– (DE) Madam President, Commissioner, since all the sensible groups in this House have expressed their support for the eCall system, I propose, rather than going once more over the same arguments and the ways in which this system benefits mankind, to concentrate on something on which this system will depend, namely the existence of emergency call centres and the need for these to be modern, for I do think that there are still some gaps in the system of emergency call handling centres in the 25 European states.

– (DE) Madam President, Commissioner, since all the sensible groups in this House have expressed their support for the eCall system, I propose, rather than going once more over the same arguments and the ways in which this system benefits mankind, to concentrate on something on which this system will depend, namely the existence of emergency call centres and the need for these to be modern, for I do think that there are still some gaps in the system of emergency call handling centres in the 25 European states.