Learning for the future Clause Samples

Learning for the future. As stated earlier, the numerous activities developed by the 27 Centres and the Secretariat of the Agreement over four years cannot all be reflected in detail in the present document.. Nevertheless, it has attempted to focus on those activities which better served the main priorities of action identified in the Medium Term Plan 2007-2011. Taking into account the limited means available with respect to the large range of action proposed, the actual achievements are encouraging as the promotion of projects involving several Centres, even if quite time consuming, has produced concrete results (such as the legislative study or the BeSafeNet website) and appear to be a way of reinforcing international co-operation within the Agreement. However, there are obviously some topics which already appeared in 2006 as priorities but which could not be developed as fully as required during that four year period. In addition, there are still topics to be privileged in the future by the Agreement: if the disaster itself is perceived as a threat, more general risk awareness of the population remains a challenge and the necessary prevention measures and preparation plans suffer too often from that lack of perception of their usefulness. Departing from the purely technical approach, which nevertheless needs to be continued, future work of the Agreement should also deal with the human dimension in all risk phases, placing it as one of its major domains of action in the coming years.