The background for this Communication is that we have experienced a series of disasters over the last years such as floods, heat-waves, forest fires, earthquakes, pollution incidents by toxic waste release, serious industrial accidents and also terrorist attacks.
Šī paziņojuma pamatā ir tas, ka pēdējos gados mēs esam pieredzējuši virkni katastrofu, tostarp plūdus, karstuma viļņus, mežu ugunsgrēkus, zemestrīces, toksisko atkritumu noplūdes izraisītus piesārņojuma gadījumus, nopietnus rūpniecības negadījumus un arī teroristu uzbrukumus.