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The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) is a “24/7” focal point for coordinating disaster relief efforts among NATO member and partner countries.
The EADRCC’s main function is to coordinate the response of NATO and partner countries to natural or man-made disasters within the Euro-Atlantic area. The Centre has guided consequence management efforts in more than twenty-five emergencies, including fighting floods and forest fires and dealing with the aftermath of earthquakes. Operations have included support to the US in response to Hurricane Katrina and - following a request from the Government of Pakistan - assistance to Pakistan in coping with the aftermath of the devastating October 2005 earthquake. Since 11 September 2001, the EADRCC has also been tasked with dealing with the consequences of terrorist attacks.
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The Centre is part of the International Staff’s Operations Division located at NATO’s Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and is staffed by five secondees from NATO and partner countries and three members of NATO’s International Staff. In order to ensure close cooperation with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), a permanent UN liaison officer is based in the EADRCC. During an actual disaster, the EADRCC can temporarily be augmented with additional personnel from EAPC delegations to NATO, or NATO’s international civilian and military staffs. In addition, the EADRCC maintains a list of designated national experts that can be called up to provide the Centre with particular advice in different areas in the event of a major disaster.
The EADRCC stands ready to respond all year round on a twenty four-hour basis to civil emergency situations in the Euro-Atlantic area. A NATO or partner country which is overwhelmed by a disaster can at any time send a request for assistance to the EADRCC.
More...The Centre was created in 1998 by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) as one of the two basic elements of the EAPC policy on “Enhanced Practical Cooperation in the Field of International Disaster Relief”. The other element is the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Unit (EADRU) - a non-standing, multi-national force of civil and military elements, which can be deployed in the event of a major natural or man-made disaster in an EAPC country.
Following the events of September 11, 2001, in the US, the EADRCC was tasked to coordinate international assistance from EAPC countries to help deal with the consequences of terrorist attacks. Therefore, the Centre must stand ready to react to major incidents involving chemical, biological or radiological agents.
Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre
NATO Headquarters
Building V, Office V 119
Boulevard Leopold III
Brussels 1110, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 707 2670
Fax: +32 2 707 2677
E-mail: eadrcc@hq.nato.int
Emergency Contact Officer (24h/24):
Duty Officer EADRCC: +32 475 829 071
