Polish Approach to Sharing Resources Deployable for the EU Civil Protection Mechanism
Polish Approach to Sharing Resources Deployable for the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

Summary/Abstract: Poles are highly aware of the fact that Polish civil protection assets are being deployed abroad in order to assist otherdisaster- and crisis-stricken countries around the world. Such a type of urgent assistance provided from one country to anotherin an emergency response situation is regulated and organised by theEuropean Union. Poland, as a state participating in theEU international system, is very active in sharing its civil protection assets, such as in the Beirut explosion case in Lebanon (2020),and during forest fires in Sweden (2018). Using its civil protection resources to assist other countries poses a question on thepotential influence of such activities on the homeland’s internal security. Solving the problem has to be preceded by answering thefollowing question — How is the process of international civil protection deployment organised in Poland?Responding to this question required utilising such methods as a review and analysis of literature sources on the Europeandimension of civil protection, EU legal regulations, statistics, reports as well as Polish standard operating procedures and internalregulations on the national level and was the key method applied in the research. Furthermore, semi-formal interviews withPolish and EU experts were done. The findings prove that operational planning in the researched area is well organised, whichsignificantly diminishes the identified risk for internal security

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