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DIRECTORATE GENERAL ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRY<br />

SECURITY RESEARCH<br />

Preparatory Action for Security Research<br />

(PASR <strong>2004</strong>)<br />

IMPACT<br />

INNOVATIVE MEASURES FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CBRN TERRORISM<br />

Project/SA Objectives<br />

The objectives of IMPACT are to lay the foundations for<br />

an integrated European CBRN counter terrorism<br />

research and acquisition programme and to validate,<br />

assess and demonstrate innovative technological<br />

capabilities, operational concepts and procedures to<br />

assist in developing preventive and suppressive crisis<br />

management.<br />

Current European capabilities to detect and respond to<br />

the types of CBRN threats are very modest.<br />

Responsibility in Europe for initially responding to<br />

terrorist incidents is spread among many organisations.<br />

The lack of co-ordination is obvious. There is an urgent<br />

need to unify much of the current response capability<br />

while at the same time setting standards and establishing<br />

guidelines for European nations to address<br />

coordination of their response to terrorism. To address<br />

the particular issues surrounding CBRN weapons,<br />

Europe must adopt a broad strategy to address the<br />

best ways to prevent a terrorist event.<br />

Our approach is based on five pillars:<br />

• Assessing the threat<br />

• Preventing an event<br />

• Protecting against an event<br />

• Responding to an event<br />

• Recovering from an event

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