Traduction de «Système d'alerte précoce de l'UE en matière de conflits » (Français → Anglais) :

contribute to the development and better integration of transnational detection and early warning and alert systems of European interest in order to enable a rapid response, and to promote the inter-linkage between national early warning and alert systems and their linkage to the ERCC and the CECIS.

An ‘early-warning system’ will act as a conflict prevention and confidence building tool in the region by anticipating any escalation of violence.

8. Points out that effective governance of RM policy is key to an effective RM strategy; notes that an effective strategy must include a continuous dialogue with the stakeholders concerned; emphasises the need for close coordination and provision of information within the Commission and the European Parliament and between Member States; recommends the establishment of a high-level interdepartmental RM task force in 2011, as is the case in France and the United States, encompassing the relevant DGs, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Environment Agency and the EEAS, to elaborate, monitor and review policies, including partnership agreements, to ensure strategic coherence and to promote the establishment of an earl ...[+++]y-warning system, inter alia for market distortion and resource-fuelled conflicts, complemented by a monitoring group; calls on the Commission to set up a long-term ‘European Raw Materials Roadmap to 2050’, which would identify future developments, threats and opportunities in the RM and CRM sectors and which could help European industries, academic and research institutions to engage in long-term planning and investment; calls further on the Commission to support Member States in developing their own RM strategies and to foster coordination and the exchange of best practice among them, including on the external dimension; suggests that the upcoming communication on the external dimension of energy could serve as a template;

23. Stresses that the question of access to raw materials should be integrated successively into peace-building and conflict prevention policy measures, as a substantial number of conflicts have re-emerged in certain regions; takes the view that a long-term goal of the EU should be the establishment of an early warning and conflict prevention system that would allow the timely identification of raw materials as drivers of certain conflicts.

Commission Decision 2000/57/EC of 22 December 1999 on the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council defines events related to communicable diseases to be communicated by competent public health authorities of Member States to the early warning and response system (EWRS) component of the Community network, and sets up general procedures for information exchange on those events, for consultation and for coordination of measures among Member States in liaison with the Commission.

This can be seen in, for example, the declaration by the Heads of State or Government in Laeken on the operational capability of the ESDP and the Union’s ability to carry out given crisis management operations, the more prominent diplomatic role of the troika and the High Representative, the continuing consolidation of the Commission’s conflict prevention policy tools, the improved early warning system, and the fact that the ‘rapid ...[+++] reaction mechanism’, to provide first injections of financing in conflict situations, is fully ready to use.