Standing conference on disaster risk reduction and civil protection
The Permanent Conference on Disaster Reduction and Civil Protection (SKK) , formerly Standing Conference on Disaster Reduction and Emergency (SKK) was, from 1989 to January 2011, a union of all in Germany in civil protection , civil and civil protection organizations involved, institutions and associations. The cooperation between those involved will be continued in other hazard prevention committees.
Goal setting
The aim of the SKK was to continuously improve and develop disaster risk management and civil protection in Germany.
As an open and integrative body, the SKK promoted the exchange of views between all those involved in disaster risk reduction and civil protection, thus promoting standardization and harmonization in these areas.
With the help of all those involved, the SKK worked to design the structures in disaster risk management and civil protection in such a way that a constant process of improvement and further development was promoted.
Chair
On April 1, 2008, Karsten Ocker was elected chairman by the sponsoring group . He held the chairmanship until the end of the SKK.
Managing directors
The management had been taken over by the ASB Federal Association. The sponsoring group had transferred this to the ASB in April 2007 under the direction of the managing director Harald Schottner.
Contributors
The sponsors were the chairmen and members of the following organizations:
- Workers Samaritan Association
- German Fire Brigade Association
- German Life Saving Society
- German Red Cross
- Maltese relief service
- Johanniter Accident Aid
- Association of the working groups of helpers in the management units and facilities of the disaster control in the Federal Republic of Germany V. ( ARKAT )
Other contributors to the Standing Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction and Civil Protection, as well as participants such as individuals, organizations and institutions that are active in the field of disaster risk reduction and civil protection nationwide in line with the goals of the SKK, were occasionally invited by the sponsoring group. A few experts also received assignments at the suggestion of the conference.
Additional guests were invited on a case-by-case or permanent basis at the suggestion of the sponsors and participants.
Attendees
Participants included:
- Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief / Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection
- technical aid organization
- Interior ministries of the federal states
- AkV Committee of the Conference of Interior Ministers for KatS + FW
- Federal ministry of defense
- Federal Ministry of Health
- German Committee for Disaster Prevention eV
- German Society for Disaster Medicine
- Federal Highway Research Institute (bast)
- German Weather Service (DWD)
- Federal Police (Germany)
- ABDA - Federal Association of German Pharmacists' Associations
- Federal Medical Association
- Insurance industry
- Emergency command
- German Police University Münster
- Flood competence center in Cologne
- Citizen Support Groups
- Central municipal associations ( German Association of Cities , German District Association and German Association of Cities and Towns )
- Standing conference for the emergency services
- BDEW Federal Association of Energy and Water Management eV
- Robert Koch Institute
- Disaster Research Center University of Kiel
- European Commission
- University of Applied Sciences Cologne
- THW-Helfervereinigung eV
Individual evidence
- ^ Stumpf + Kossendey Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Permanent conference for disaster risk management and civil protection dissolved - S + K Verlag for emergency medicine. In: www.skverlag.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .