Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/452 of 26 March 2020 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/570 as regards capacities established to respond to low probability risks with a high impact (notified under document C(2020) 2011) (Text with EEA relevance)

For the purposes of establishing rescEU capacities necessary to respond to low probability risks with a high impact, the Commission shall take the following into account: (a) the unpredictability or the extraordinary nature of a disaster; (b) the scale of a disaster, including mass casualties, mass fatalities, and mass displacement; (c) the protracted duration of a disaster; (d) the degree of complexity of a disaster; (e) the potential risk of severely disrupting the functioning of the national government, including the provision of social, environmental, economic and public health services or the disruption of critical infrastructure referred to in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 2008/114/EC ; (f) geographical range, including the potential of impacts spreading beyond borders; (g) other factors such as the activation in full mode of the Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR) arrangements of the Council or the invocation of the solidarity clause pursuant to Article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

1 Capacities corresponding to events characterised by at least two of the categories, as specified in Article 3d, shall be established with the objective of responding to low probability risks with a high impact.

2 For every defined rescEU capacity under Article 2(2), the Commission shall consider whether the capacity can be established to respond to low probability risks with a high impact.

3 rescEU capacities referred to in points (c), (d), (e) and (f) under Article 2(2) shall be established with the objective of managing low probability risks with a high impact. Union financial assistance shall cover all costs necessary to ensure their availability and deployability, in accordance with Article 21(4) of Decision No 1313/2013/EU.

4 Where rescEU capacities referred to in points (c), (d), (e) and (f) under Article 2(2) are deployed under the Union Mechanism, Union financial assistance shall cover 100 % of the operational costs, in accordance with Article 23(4b) of Decision No 1313/2013/EU.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States. It shall apply from 19 March 2020.