— Contribute to the extinction of large forest and vegetal fires by performing aerial firefighting.

— 2 airplanes with a minimum capacity of 3 000 litres each or 1 airplane with a minimum capacity of 8 000 litres (1).

— Ability to perform continuous operations.

— Airplane.

— Minimum of two crews.

— Technical staff.

— Field maintenance kit.

— Communication equipment allowing air-to-air and air-to-ground communication.

— Equipment storage and maintenance of the equipment of the module;

— Equipment for the communication with the relevant partners, notably those in charge of the coordination on site.

— Availability for departure maximum 3 hours after the acceptance of the offer in the case of a rapid intervention response (2).

— Ability to be deployed in a range of 2 000 km within maximum 24 hours.

—  ►C1  Contribute to the extinction of large forest and vegetal fires by performing aerial firefighting ◄ .

— 1 helicopter with a minimum capacity of 3 000 litres (1)

— Ability to perform continuous operations.

— Helicopter with minimum two crews.

— Technical staff.

— Water bucket or releasing kit.

— 1 maintenance set.

— 1 spare parts set.

— Rescue hoists.

— Communication equipment allowing air-to-air and air-to-ground communication.

— Equipment storage and maintenance of the equipment of the module;

— Equipment for the communication with the relevant partners, notably those in charge of the coordination on site.

— Availability for departure maximum 3 hours after the acceptance of the offer in the case of a rapid intervention response (2).

— Ability to be deployed in a range of 2 000 km within maximum 24 hours.

— Aerial transport, including in-flight treatment of highly infectious disease (HID) patients to specialised health facilities in the Union.

— Aircraft with a capacity to transport one or more HID patient per flight;

— Ability to fly day and night.

— System for safe in-flight medical treatment of HID patients, including intensive care (1):

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— Support:

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— Equipment storage and maintenance of the equipment of the module;

— Equipment for communication with the relevant partners, notably those in charge of the coordination on site.

— Availability for departure maximum 24 hours after the acceptance of the offer;

— For intercontinental evacuations, ability to perform a 12-hour flight without refuelling.

— Aerial transport of disaster victims to health facilities in the Union.

— Aircraft with an overall capacity to transport at least six patients in need of intensive care and with a capacity to transport patients on stretchers or sitting patients, or both;

— Ability to fly day and night.

— In-flight medical treatment, including intensive care:

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— Support:

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— Equipment storage and maintenance of the equipment of the module;

— Equipment for communication with relevant partners, notably those in charge of the coordination on site.

— Availability for departure maximum 24 hours after the acceptance of the offer;

— For airplanes, an ability to perform a 6-hour flight without refuelling.

— Provide type 2 (Inpatient Surgical Emergency Care) or type 3 (Inpatient Referral Care), or both, as described by the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— Provide specialised care or support functions, including if needed via specialised care teams as described by the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— Minimum treatment capability in accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— Day and night services (covering 24/7 if necessary).

— In accordance, where available, with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— The team should ensure self-sufficiency during the entire deployment time in accordance with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative. Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.

— Availability for departure in maximum 48-72 hours after the acceptance of the offer, and ability to become operational on site according to WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— Ability to be operational in accordance with the standards of the WHO global Emergency Medical Team initiative.

— Stockpiling of medical countermeasures, comprising of vaccines or therapeutics, intensive care medical equipment, personal protective equipment, or laboratory supplies, for the purpose of preparedness and response to a serious cross-border threat to health (1).

— Adequate number of doses of vaccines necessary for individuals considered to be at risk (2) linked to one or more cases of serious cross-border threats to health.

— Adequate number of doses of therapeutics necessary to treat one or more cases of serious cross-border threats to health.

— Vaccines and therapeutics shall fulfil one of the following requirements:

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— Adequate intensive care medical equipment (3), to provide supportive care to one or more cases of serious cross-border threats to health, in accordance with WHO standards.

— Adequate number of sets of personal protective equipment (4) for individuals considered to be at risk (5) linked to one or more cases of serious cross-border threats to health, in accordance with the standards of the ECDC and the WHO.

— Adequate number of laboratory supplies, including sampling material, laboratory reagents, equipment and consumables (6), to ensure laboratory diagnosis capacity for one or more cases of serious cross-border threats to health.

— Appropriate storage facilities in the Union (7) and adequate stockpiling monitoring system.

— Appropriate procedures ensuring the adequate packaging, transport and delivery of the products referred to under capacities, where needed.

— Appropriately trained personnel to handle, and administer the products referred to under capacities.

— Availability for departure maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer.

Tasks

— Decontaminate from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents of infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, equipment, critical evidence or affected persons, including fatalities.

Capacities

— Adequate decontamination capability for infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, equipment and critical evidence;

— If the capacity covers the decontamination of persons, adequate decontamination capability for at least 200 ambulant persons per hour and 20 non-ambulant persons per hour as well as fatalities;

— Ability to decontaminate from common toxic industrial chemicals, recognised warfare agents, biological infectious agents (pathogens) and toxins, and radionuclides;

— Ability to erect temporary decontamination facilities within a safe radius, to monitor the decontamination area in order to keep the work environment safe and to evaluate the decontamination effectiveness.

Main components

— Appropriate equipment, technology and solutions to decontaminate from common toxic industrial chemicals, recognised warfare agents, biological infectious agents (pathogens) and toxins and, radionuclides;

— Appropriate equipment to monitor progress of decontamination operations;

— Appropriate equipment and personnel to perform decontamination of infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, equipment, critical evidence and capabilities;

— If the capacity covers the decontamination of persons, appropriate equipment and personnel to perform decontamination of ambulant and non-ambulant persons;

— Appropriate capability and procedures to monitor the decontamination area to keep the work environment safe and to verify the decontamination effectiveness;

— Appropriate personal protective equipment to operate safely in a contaminated environment for the complete period of deployment;

— Adequate pumping system and containers to take-up water locally;

— Secure and safe waste management system and procedures during and after decontamination, including containment solutions to temporarily and safely store contaminated waste, pumps, waste combustion remains, contaminated water and wastewater treatment equipment. The management of hazardous waste, including contaminated water and other by-products, will be carried out in accordance with relevant Union or international regulations, or the legislation of the host nation, whichever is more stringent and with support from the host nation.

Self-sufficiency

— Article 12(1) and (2) of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies;

— Ability to decontaminate the capacity’s own personnel.

Deployment

— Availability for departure maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer;

— Ability to maintain operations for at least 14 continuous days.

— Stockpiling of CBRN countermeasures, comprising though not limited to, personal protective equipment, devices, laboratory supplies and logistics elements, as well as complementing and supporting other rescEU capacities, such as the CBRN decontamination and detection, surveillance and monitoring capacities for the purpose of preparedness and response to a CBRN event, including in response to cross-border threats to health (1).

— Materials and systems (2) for decontaminating persons, infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, sensitive equipment and/or critical evidence, including from potential contamination with toxic industrial chemicals, recognised warfare agents, biological infectious agents (pathogens), biotoxins and radionuclides;

— materials and devices necessary for detection, sampling, identification, surveillance and monitoring in order to keep safe an environment potentially exposed to CBRN agents;

— materials and systems necessary for the containment of contamination and the management of waste and harmful by-products, including for contaminated water and clothes;

— materials and systems necessary for fire containment and suppression in a CBRN event;

— medical first line treatments, vaccines (3), relevant generic rapid diagnostic kits and antidotes against CBRN agents (e.g. atropine and iodine tablets);

— support and disposable materials such as discharges and consumables that are complementary for CBRN response, tools needed for maintenance and stand-by (e.g. air bottle filler), containers for polluted or contaminated material of different agents;

— CBRN related logistics support elements such as, but not limited to, tents, logistic containers, equipment for transporting victims, and decontamination tents at hospitals;

— personal protective equipment (4) and their regeneration or refill systems, if applicable, for individuals considered to be at risk (5) both as front line workers and population;

— laboratory supplies, including sampling material, laboratory reagents, equipment and consumables (6), to ensure laboratory capacity for CBRN-related risks;

— body bags for CBRN contaminated fatalities;

— any other items as needed, according to the identified risk.

— Appropriate storage facilities in the Union (7) and adequate stockpiling monitoring system;

— appropriate procedures ensuring the adequate packaging, transport and delivery of the products referred to under capacities, where needed;

— appropriately trained personnel to oversee and handle the products referred to under capacities;

— appropriate level of compliance with international standards and operation models, such as EU, WHO or NATO standards, including, where applicable, relevant Union legislation.

— Availability for departure maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer.

— Provide temporary shelter to affected population, including space for housing, hygiene and sanitation, basic medical service and social gathering.

— Provide staff to handle, mobilise, assemble, put in place and maintain shelter units when required. Where a handover takes place, train the relevant personnel (local and/or international) before the pull out of the shelter capacity.

— Shelter capacity (1) composed by assets capable to shelter –when deployed simultaneously – a minimum of 5 000 persons.

— The capacity is to be constituted by a physical reserve or of a virtual shelter reserve of shelter units, or both.

— Shelter units with heating (for winter conditions), appropriate aeration systems (for summer conditions), and basic material, such as beds with sleeping-bag and/or blankets.

— Sanitation and hygiene facilities.

— Infirmary for basic medical services.

— Multi-purpose facilities for preparation and consumption of food, distribution of drinkable water, social assembling.

— Power generators and lighting equipment.

— Basic hygiene kits.

— Appropriate storage facilities in the Union (2), logistics and adequate stockpiling monitoring system.

— Appropriate arrangements ensuring the adequate transport and delivery of the units.

— Appropriately trained personnel and assets to handle, mobilise, assemble, put in place and maintain physical assets in the affected area.

— The capacity is to ensure self-sufficiency during the first 96 hours of deployment.

— Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.

— Availability for departure of physical reserve maximum 24 hours after the acceptance of the offer.

— The duration of the mission and, if applicable, the start of the handover process are to be defined in agreement with the affected country.

Tasks

— Provide transport and related logistics services for persons, including patients and teams involved in response operations, material, or equipment, or a combination of the aforementioned.

— The tasks described under sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 may be included.

Capacities

— For airplanes, the ability to transport at least 35 persons or to transport at least 7 tonnes of material, or both.

— Ability to operate day and night.

— Ability to ensure relevant logistical support functions (such as loading/unloading of material).

— Ability to perform, where necessary, in operationally challenging circumstances (1).

— Ability to perform, where necessary, the transport and logistical handling of special goods (2) according to relevant international standards.

Main components

— Crew adapted to the performed tasks and the timeframe of the operations.

— Technical staff adequately equipped and trained to perform the different tasks defined above.

— Adequate communication equipment (such as air-to-air and air-to-ground communication for aerial capacities).

— Integrated module for logistics operations, such as loading/unloading operations.

Self-sufficiency

— Storage and maintenance of the different equipment of the capacity.

— Equipment for communication with relevant partners, notably those in charge of the coordination on site.

Deployment

— Availability for departure maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer.

— For airplanes, ability to perform a flight of minimum 2 000 nautical miles (3 700  km) at 5 tonnes payload without refuelling.

Tasks

— Deployable and reach back CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring capacity, for the response to emergencies, for search activities, for the response to security events and for the surveillance of major events (1).

Capacities

— Ability to provide operational support for the response to emergencies (2), through in-field CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring.

— Ability to support search activities, through in-field CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring.

— Ability to provide operational support for the response to security events, through in-field CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring. This shall include the ability to support the competent authority of the requesting Member State or third country (3) in its effort to preserve and gather forensic evidence, to secure the chain of custody and to protect classified information.

— Ability to support surveillance operations for major events through in-field CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring.

— Ability to provide non-deployed reach back technical assessment support for CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring activities, as well as to address safety concerns related to these activities.

— Ability to prepare for and address operational challenges to implement CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring activities in the requesting Member State or third country, considering the hazard and threat assessments, plans, procedures and protocols of the requesting Member State or third country.

— Ability to operate under the direction of the requesting Member State, as referred to in Article 12(6) and (7) of Decision No 1313/2013/EU, and to provide effective operational liaison and coordination abilities with the relevant authorities of the requesting Member State. (4)

Main components

— Pool of experts capable of assessing and planning CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring activities, based on hazard and threat assessments of the Member State or third country.

— Deployable pool of experts capable to perform CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring, for the response to emergencies, for search activities, for the response to security events and for surveillance activities.

— Deployable CBRN detection, sampling, identification and monitoring equipment and tools, as well as all required supporting equipment, tools, resources, vehicles, consumables, secured communication, data exchange and information technologies, and small field laboratories (5), as deemed necessary to ensure the capacity’s functionality.

— Deployable equipment, tools, resources and consumables, as well as an appropriate management system, to handle the contaminated waste caused by the detection, sampling, identification and monitoring activities.

— Operational reach back capability for technical and operational assessment, especially in the area of identification, sampling and safety.

— Appropriate equipment, procedures, tools, resources and consumables to ensure the safety of the personnel while operating in a hazardous environment, such as appropriate detectors, personal protective equipment or decontamination components, in accordance with existing applicable legal requirements and applicable international standards.

Self-sufficiency

— Article 12 of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.

Deployment

— Availability for departure of the deployable components and availability to provide reach back technical assessment support maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer.

— Ability to maintain operations for at least 14 continuous days.

— The capacity may be pre-positioned in cases of requests of assistance according with Article 15(2) of Decision 1313/2013/EU and based on national threat assessments indicating an exceptional situation of increased risk.

— Provide a modular, flexible and adaptable mobile laboratory capable of detecting, analysing or verifying pathogens or CBRN substances.

— Ability to manage laboratory activities.

— Ability to conduct testing and analysis following existing applicable international standards, guidelines and best practices.

— Ability to handle pathogens or CBRN substances of different risk groups and store, transmit and manage related data and analytical results in a secure and safe manner.

— Ability to support public health investigation, report results, and perform verification while preserving the chain of custody and protecting classified information.

— Appropriately trained and adequately equipped personnel to perform the different tasks as defined under tasks.

— Develop appropriate operational procedures.

— Knowledge of custom rules and specific requirements related to border crossing of mobile laboratory equipment, reagents and staff members.

— Communication system with secure and non-secure IT network (LAN) to ensure internet connection, data management and data exchange, including in remote areas

— Laboratory information management system.

— Appropriate equipment and consumables required to perform essential tasks and functions.

— Appropriate supporting systems tools and resources to perform essential tasks and functions.

— Appropriate equipment, procedures, tools, resources and consumables, including appropriate waste management systems, to ensure the safety of the personnel, the surrounding population and the environment while operating with hazardous CBRN substances or pathogens, in accordance with existing applicable legal requirements and applicable international standards.

— The capacity should ensure self-sufficiency for at least 14 days.

— Article 12(1) and (2) of Implementing Decision 2014/762/EU applies.

— Availability for departure in maximum 12 hours after the acceptance of the offer