title: The European Union Integrated Political Crisis Response Arrangements: Improving the European Union's Major Crisis Response Coordination Capacities.
abstract: In recent years, the European Union (EU) has progressively assumed more and more of a primary role in crisis response coordination. The EU Integrated Political Crisis Response arrangements (IPCR) were recently approved to facilitate this task. These new agreements, which substitute for the Crisis Coordination Agreements, will add more flexibility to crisis response mechanisms in the EU. They will also strengthen cooperation between the different relevant agents in a major crisis situation and create new useful tools, such as the Integrated Situational Awareness and Analysis. Their real performance still needs to be fully tested, but some weakness can already be foreseen. This article provides a deep analysis of this new legislation.
authors.affiliation: 1Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome,University of the Basque Country,UPV/EHU,Bilbao,Spain.
authors.forename: Iñigo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Miguel Beriain
authors.affiliation: 2Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome,University of Deusto,Bilbao,Spain.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Atienza-Macías
authors.affiliation: 1Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome,University of the Basque Country,UPV/EHU,Bilbao,Spain.
authors.forename: Emilio Armaza
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Armaza
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005062:European Union / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011057:Politics
keywords: health policy; legal; liability; policy making; public policy