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e) Creation of CEPED agencies – Academic Study
Centres and Researches on Disasters (Centros
Universitários de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Desastres
- CEPED) installed in Brazilian Universities. Presently,
the CEPED of Campina Grande in the State of Paraíba
is reactivated and another one was created in the Federal
University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The later has been
developing projects with the Civil Defence State
Management (Diretoria Estadual de Defesa Civil -
DEDEC) of the State of Santa Catarina.
f) Priority given to COMDEC agencies – Civil Defence
Municipal Co-ordination (Coordenadoria Municipal de
Defesa Civil -COMDEC), is the main civil defence
agency, and is responsible for co-ordination at the site
of the disaster and the first to act under circumstances
of disasters - prevention, preparation, solutions and
reconstruction.
g) Partnership with technical agencies to do followup
- Agreements with federal and state technical
institutions to inspect works and services and motivate
agreements with states and municipal districts. This
measure has been assuring the fulfilment of the
expected results both in quantity and in quality.
h) Legislation on dangerous products as well as
inspection of the procedures in several transport areas,
in the scope of MERCOSUR .
i) Legal Aspects - Legislation has been progressing,
through constitutional texts, both at federal and state
levels, as well as the infra-constitutional legislation.
Much is still needed for the multi-sector approach
demanded by the management of disasters.
j) Voluntary work - Participation of volunteers and
companies (in preventive and emergency actions of
civil defence), motivated by campaigns developed
during the International Volunteer Year in 2001.
4.9.1. Information on the NATIONAL SYSTEM OF
CIVIL DEFENSE (Sistema Nacional de Defesa
Civil - SINDEC)
Decree no. 895, of August 16, 1993, regarding the
organisation of the National System of Civil Defence -
SINDEC as well as offering other provisions, has established,
in clause 4°, that SINDEC should have the following
structure:
a) Superior Agency - National Council of Civil Defence
(Conselho Nacional de Defesa Civil - CONDEC)
constituted by representatives of the ministries, of the
three Armed Forces and of the Secretariat of the
Presidency.
b) Central Agency – National Secretary of Civil Defence
(Secretaria de Defesa Civil - SEDEC) subordinate to the
Ministry of National Integration (Ministério da
Integração Nacional).
c) Regional Agencies - Regional Co-ordination of Civil
Defence
d) State Agencies, of the Federal and Municipal
districts - Co-ordination of Civil Defence
(Coordenadorias de Defesa Civil – CEDEC), Municipal
Co-ordination of Civil Defence (Coordenadorias
Municipais de Defesa Civil - COMDEC) and Community
Centre of Civil Defence (Núcleo Comunitário de
Defesa Civil - NUDEC).
e) Sectorial Agencies - Agencies and Entities of Public
Management - Federal, State and Municipal belonging
to SINDEC.
f) Support Agency - Agencies and Public and Private
Entities, at the three government levels, supporting
and promoting SINDEC.
4.9.2. The National Policy of Civil Defense
The above-mentioned Decree no. 895, in its clause 6,
established that the National Council of Civil Defence would
have the following abilities:
policies feedback
a) approve policies and guidelines of governmental action
of civil defence; and
b) approve the criteria for the declaration, homologation
and recognition of Emergency and Public Disasters
Situations.
While performing these functions, CONDEC, through
Resolution no. 02, of Dec. 12, 1994, approved the National
Policy of Civil Defence that was homologated by the
President and published in the Federal Official Gazette no.
01, on Jan. 2, 1995.
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