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Response to Emergency Situations: Experience and Problems of Ukraine Svitlana Garienchyk , Senior Advisor Ukrainian Center of Ecological Audit and Insurance Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Sector July 2, 2008, Amsterdam 1 PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION AND TERRITORIES IN TECHNOGENIC AND NATURAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS (ES) There is a public policy and the Unified State System for prevention and response to technogenic and natural ES • • • • Key tasks: Prevention Response Preparedness Monitoring 2 LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS FOR TECHNOGENIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY • Constitution of Ukraine • Law of Ukraine “On Civil Defense” • Law of Ukraine "On the protection of populations and territories from technogenic and natural disasters • Law of Ukraine "On the legal regime of emergency“, and • other legal acts 3 Ministry of Emergency Situations and Chornobyl Affaires System of Response to theTechnogenic and Natural ES (National Report on State Technogenic and Natural Safety in Ukraine (2007) www.mns.gov.ua/annual_report/2008 • • • • • • • It includes: Quick reaction forces Economic, financial, material and technical resources Informational resources Professional training for actions in ES Scientific base Legislative provisions for technogenic and environmental safety International cooperation 4 INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES 1. Governmental Information and Analytical System on ES based on: • • • • State register of potentially hazardous objects (PHO) Regional PHO registries PHO database PHO Passports (end of 2007: 14562 PHO) 2. Forecasting Office of Ministry of Emergencies: operational information - 2-3 times a week information throughout Ukraine - once a month (60-65% - anthropogenic; 70% - natural) 3. Hydrometeorological Service of Ukraine: Provided 150 thousand forecasts, warnings about hazardous natural phenomena and abrupt change of weather 5 National Report on State Technogenic and Natural Safety in Ukraine (2007) www.mns.gov.ua/annual_report/2008 GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE difficult to predict changing climatic conditions reduced response and communication period reduced level of after-effects prediction 6 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Project “Transboundary Risk Management in the Dniester River Basin” • supported by the German Department of Environment • meant to assist the cooperation between Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova 7 OBJECTIVES • to improve the safety standards in environmentendangering industries and thus to minimize the admission of water-endangering substances into the Dniester River • to build a transboundary warning and alarm system and thus to minimize the potential after-effects of incidents. 8 Safety of industrial sites - safety of water 1. Identification and registration of hazardous sources Risk degree analysis in hazardous industrial zones: • development of registers on qualitative and quantitative state of the water basins • development of registers on hazardous substances used in various industrial sectors 2. Development and implementation of the appropriate rules and regulations 3. Ensuring adequate funding 4. Adoptation of international and EU good practices in imergency planning and industrial safety 5. Implementation of commitments in accordance with international agreements 9 THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION Svitlana Garienchyk Senior Advisor Ukrainian Center of Ecological Audit and Insurance Tel: +38 044 248 70 72 E-mail: [email protected] 10