EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN MAJOR HAZARDS AGREEMENT (EUR-OPA)Draft European and Mediterranean Ethical Charter on Resilience to Disasters • March 25th, 2010
This draft is the response of the Executive Secretariat of the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s invitation, in Recommendation 1862 (2009), for it to prepare a draft ethical charter on resilience to disasters. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe endorsed this proposal in paragraph 8 of its reply of 8 July 2009, calling for a European and Mediterranean ethical charter on resilience to disasters, whose aim would be to improve preparedness and deal with ethical problems relating to disaster victims.
