Portugal

Responses

Adaptation Disaster Risk Management

Instruments

Direct Investment

Early warning systems

Governance

Capacity building Institutional mandates

Regulation

Standards, obligations and norms

Keywords

Adaptation Institutions / Administrative Arrangements Disaster Risk Management

Law no. 27/2006 on civil protection

Legislative

Law

Passed in 2006

This law outlines the procedures for declaring a state of disaster and issuing disaster alerts in Portugal. It assigns the responsibility for prevention, response, and recovery activities during a disaster declaration to subnational and local governments. It also establishes the National Civil Protection Commission to implement policy guidelines, approve civil protection emergency plans, facilitate government cooperation, define disaster management standards, mobilise resources in disaster situations, and operate an Integrated System of Protection Operations and Aid.

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