News summaries
In this issue:
Welcome |
General Assembly |
News summaries |
Articles
Contents on this page:
New committee members
Construction Products Regulation
Towards a European Public Alert System
New committee members confirmed at GA
The General Assembly in Bucharest saw a full list of newcomers to the section committees confirmed.
Firstly, in the Fire Section, the committee is joined by Christian Lais of SES (Switzerland), Maximilian Strohmeier of VBÖ (Austria) and Steward Forbes from the FIA (UK). Meanwhile, the Security section committee is strengthened with the arrival of Olivier Lanen of COFRAS (France) and Anatolii Dolynnyi from the USIF (Ukraine).
On the Services section committee there are three new names: Stefan Berger of BHE (Germany); Hans Leijendekkers from VEBON (Netherlands); and Eric Lejars from GESI (France).
Contribution thanks
Euralarm would like to extend its thanks for their contributions to the following individuals, who are standing down from the following committees:
Fire section
Graham Simons of Honeywell (UK)
Jürgen van Goethem of UTC / GE (Belgium)
Michel Goderie of VEBON (Netherlands)
Security section
Patrik Vervaele of ALIA (Belgium)
Glen Dale of UTC / GE (Belgium)
Services section
Bernhard Lauwick of UTC / Chubb (France)
Hans Leijendekkers of UNETO (Netherlands)
Antonio Escamilla of AES (Spain)
Geert Herbots of ALIA (Belgium)
CPD makes way for new CPR
A new Construction Products Regulation (CPR) is being introduced to replace the familiar, outgoing CPD.
Christian Lais (pictured) of Siemens, a member of TC Horizontal Compliance, explains in the May Special Newsletter what impact this important move will have, the background to the CPR's introduction, and its comparative benefits.
The Special Newsletter provides a useful summary of the main points involved in this significant development, together with a hotlink to the full article by Christian.
Towards a European Public Alert System
The 8th GESA Conference (German European Security Association), which took place on 16th June in Brussels in cooperation with EURALARM, saw the European electronic fire safety industry taking a leading role in the European crisis response debate by presenting solutions which could form viable technological building blocks for European Public Alert Systems.
With the recent events in Japan and Spain as background, and under the banner of 'Crisis and Emergency Response in the European Union: Towards a Public European Alert?' the high-level conference brought together around 100 civil and public security experts from Europe, Japan and the USA to discuss Europe's crisis response capability and future perspectives.
One very clear challenge highlighted during the conference was how to implement frameworks and technological solutions that can cope with the extreme complexity of the procedural and regulatory landscape of crisis response in Europe.
The presentations all highlighted the need towards – and the challenges in – achieving a more standardized approach to crisis management and public warning, at regulatory, technical and organizational levels. This was a point reinforced by Hansjürg Mahler, President of EURALARM, who stressed the importance of real-time, standardized information dissemination to people in crisis situations, and the necessity to develop Europe-wide standards and codes of practice to support it.
We will follow-up with more information on this important event, which fits perfectly into the ESP-Project presented by Hansjürg Mahler at the EURALARM GA in Bucharest in May (see separate report in this July Newsletter), in the next EURALARM Newsletter.