Hungary accident: MIC sends a liaison officer to Hungary to coordinate the arrival of the team of experts

A liaison officer, from the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) of the European Commission arrived in Hungary to coordinate the job of the team of experts from Member States. That team was selected by the Hungarian authorities. Hungary has launched through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism a request for a small team of 3-5 experts with strong field experience on pollution issues, the MIC has received some proposals from different Member States. These proposals were analysed by the Hungarian authorities, in order to select the experts that best respond to the needs on the ground.

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European Commission: IP/10/1308: Hungary Accident: European team of five experts to start working on the ground http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1308&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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