I527-290 ESRIF Final Report (WEB).indd - European Commission

4.1.2 Work organisation
In order to assess the impact of certain crisis categories on Crisis Management, four tasks forces were established. The result
of the initial analysis of relevant security policy papers suggested arranging the work along the following four main risk
scenarios:
“Terrorism & Crime Attacks”
“Humanitarian Crises”
“Natural Disasters”
“Major Industrial/Technical Accidents”
In addition, giving room for new developments and ideas in the area of management principles a special fi fth, transversal
group on “Modern management concepts for innovative Crisis Management” was also established.
Picture 3: Organisation of WG4
4.2 Risks and challenges
Crisis Management methodologies depend on the phase within the Crisis Management cycle rather than the type of incident.
In order to justify and substantiate this hypothesis, diff erent risk scenarios have been extracted from relevant security policy
papers available in Europe, which then were analysed on their impact on Crisis Management.
Policy Background
Security policy documents are available on both national and European level; with quite varying depths and quality. These
policies represent a broad range of risks already visible or foreseeable in the near future. Similar diversity in quality can be
found in terms of challenges. Some 30 security policy papers were perceived relevant for the Crisis Management issue and
thus analysed within WG4. Experts of diff erent European policy areas complemented the results of the document analysis.
These analysed documents reveal a set of risk categories which appear common for Europe throughout the various sources
and have a clear link to Crisis Management.
Table 2: Risk scenarios from security policy papers
Main Risk Scenarios
Complex humanitarian crises
Natural disasters
Major industrial accidents
Terrorism and organized crime attacks
Proliferation of WMD
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