Federal warning center

	Federal ; Warning Center
State level	Federation
position	Department II / 4 Civil Protection, Crisis and Disaster Protection Management of the BMI / GDföS
At sight	federal Ministry of Internal Affairs
founding	2003
Headquarters	Vienna 1 , Herrengasse 7
management	General Director for Public Safety : Herbert Anderl ; Head: Doris Ita
Website	bmi.gv.at/…

The Federal Warning Center ( BWZ ) is an institution of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior for civil protection within the framework of the State Crisis and Disaster Management (SKKM). As an alarm center, it is responsible for warning and alerting the entire population in Austria. The control centers of the states are the state warning centers ( LWZ ).

Function and history

On the one hand, its tasks lie within the republic: in the event of large-scale disasters, it alerts the state warning centers of the individual federal states . In addition, it is responsible for international crisis communication in the event of a disaster: It notifies other countries if they are affected by disasters and acts as a contact point for foreign events that could affect Austria. There are agreements with neighboring countries, with the EU , with NATO and with the UN .

The Federal Warning Center is the permanent observation point of the radiation early warning system and direct communication with the emergency organizations .

The beginnings of the warning services in Austria go back to the 1960s, when the local fire brigades were connected , initially in radio networks , and the avalanche warning services and the needs analysis of torrent control developed in parallel in the Alpine region - the reason for example was the Danube flood in northern Austria in 1954 , the avalanche disasters in winter 1951 and in Walsertal 1954 in western Austria or the flood disaster of Breitenau in 1958 in Styria. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, the federal government, the federal states and the municipalities jointly set up a comprehensive system to alert the population in the event of civil protection and disasters.
The Federal Warning Center was then set up in May 2003 by merging the coordination bodies previously located in various departments in a new coordination committee chaired by the Director General for Public Safety (GDföS). The Austrian platform for international humanitarian and disaster relief established in 2000 was also integrated into the new committee. This means that the Security Directorate at the Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the entire coordination of the state disaster control management , crisis management and international disaster relief . Since 2006, the Federal Warning Center has been integrated into the Operations and Crisis Coordination Center (EKC) of the Ministry of the Interior as the most comprehensive control center for exceptional cases of all kinds.

The state warning centers (LAWZ), which are set up in the federal states responsible for disaster control, are subordinate to it . These are located (depending on the federal state) at the offices of the state governments , the state fire brigade commandos or state fire brigade schools , as the fire brigade has the most extensive disaster control options, or outsourced institutions. From 1987, after Chernobyl, the state warning centers were institutionalized at state level. After the avalanche disaster in Galtür in 1999, electronic networking in particular was accelerated, and - as part of the eGovernment offensive of the 1990s / 2000s - also with the other civil protection-relevant authorities, such as the ministries and executive bodies ( police , armed forces ), ZAMG , BEV (spatial information ), BAW , die.Wildbach , as well as civil protection associations and emergency organizations such as the Red Cross , Samaritan Association , emergency helicopters , crisis intervention service , but also, for example, water rescue , mountain rescue , rescue dog brigade of the Federal Army, networked, and the specialized warning services (such as weather, earthquake, rays of the ZAMG , Flood of the BAW) integrated. The activation of the warning and alarm system (the sirens) is now also centrally controlled.

Warning associations are also increasingly being formed with the services of neighboring regions abroad, for example the Fastlink project for the seismological service in both Tyrol as part of Interreg III.

List of Austrian warning centers

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The web link is aimed at the news page of the website

country	Name (service / org.)	Abbr.	shape	Seat	Note ( sort .: established )	Web
Austria Austria	Federal warning center	BWZ (BMI / II / 4)	Federal Ministry of the Interior , Department II / 4 Civil Protection, Crisis and Disaster Management	Vienna 1 (1014), Herrengasse 7 ( Ministry of the Interior )	Contact point for national and international civil defense institutions; established 2003	Downloads. bmi.gv.at
Burgenland Burgenland	State Security Center Burgenland	LSZ-B	State Security Center Burgenland Gesellschaft mbH	Eisenstadt , Europaplatz 1 ( Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government )	Integrated control center of the emergency organizations in Burgenland; owned by Land Bgld. (60%), WCC Bgld. , LFWV Bgld. (20% each); founded in 2004	News. lsz-b.at
Carinthia Carinthia	State alarm and warning center Carinthia	LAWZ-K	Service of the Carinthian Fire Brigade Association	Klagenfurt , Roseneggerstrasse 20 ( LAWZ )	In the house also mountain rescue , water rescue , civil protection association , department of disaster control AKL Carinthia; founded in 1968, new building in 1991	News feuerwehr-ktn.at
Niederosterreich Lower Austria	Lower Austrian state warning center	LWZ-N	Service point of the Lower Austrian state government and the Lower Austrian state fire brigade association	Tulln a. d. D. , Langenlebarner Straße 106 ( Lower Austria Center for Fire, Disaster and Civil Protection )	founded in 2003, originally 60s radio station Florian Tulln of the Lower Austrian Fire Brigade School, new house since May 2006	Civil defense warning noe.gv.at; Current information (archive)
Oberosterreich Upper Austria	Provincial warning center Upper Austria	LWZ-O	Alerting center of the Upper Austrian fire brigades (Florian LFK)	Linz , Petzoldstraße 43 ( Upper Austrian State Fire Brigade Association )	From Upper Austria. L-FWV as the central management of the disaster relief service of Upper Austria. State government operated; founded in 1978	ooelfv.at:Use for Upper Austria: State warning center
Salzburg Salzburg	State alarm and warning center / State warning service Salzburg	LAWZ / LWD-S (Ref. 0/33)	State of Salzburg, State Office Directorate, specialist dept. 0/3 Presidential Affairs, 0/33 Civil Protection Unit	Salzburg , Karolingerstraße 30 (state fire brigade command)	otherwise primarily the district authorities responsible; Central installed 2005, also includes the storm warning for Salzburg's lakes and the avalanche warning service as well as the alerting and dispatching of all Salzburg fire brigades.	fire department ↳verband-salzburg.at (Homepage - Current warnings)
Styria Styria	State warning center Styria	LWZ Stmk (LAD- FAKS)	Office of the Styrian Provincial Government , Provincial Office Directorate, Disaster Control and National Defense Department	Graz , Paulustorgasse 4 ( Herberstein Palace )	Permanent contact and coordination point for all types of disasters and damaging events; 1963/64 national disaster radio network, established 1973 as a department, 1980 own department	relevant data katastrophenschutz.steiermark.at; Current
Tyrol Tyrol	State warning center Tyrol	LWZ-T (KatS)	State of Tyrol , Society, Health and Social Affairs Group , Civil Protection and Disaster Protection Department	Innsbruck , Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz 3 ( Landhaus 1 )	Department of Civil Protection and Disaster Protection. Permanent contact point in the event of a disaster for the state of Tyrol and the authorities. Blue light organizations (exception police) via the Tyrol control center .	tirol.gv.at
Vorarlberg Vorarlberg	State warning center Vorarlberg	LWZ-V (Dept. Ia)	Office of the Vorarlberg State Government , Group I Interior , Department Ia Interior and Security	Bregenz , Landhaus (state parliament / state government)	Warning and operations center of the state of Vorarlberg; established ??, avalanche warning service since 1953	Warning services vorarlberg.at
Vienna Vienna	Crisis Management and Security Vienna	MD-OS	Magistrate of the City of Vienna , Organization and Security Division , Crisis Management and Security Group	Vienna 1 (1082 - despite the postal code of the 8th district, the town hall is within the first), Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 3, 1st St.	Specialist office for crisis management, established 2003; Originally fire station town hall of the professional fire brigade Vienna	Crisis management wien.gv.at