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Republika e Kosovs Republika Kosova-Republic of Kosovo

Qeveria Vlada-Government

National Response Plan

Prishtina, December 2010

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Content GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION ....................................................................... 5

1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 8

1.1 Drafting and Implementation of National Response Plan ......................................... 8

1.2 Executive Authorities ................................................................................................ 9

1.3 Purpose ...................................................................................................................... 9

1.4 Margin and Viability ............................................................................................... 10

1.5 Incident Management Activities ............................................................................. 11

1.6 Authorizations ......................................................................................................... 11

1.7 Key Concepts .......................................................................................................... 11

2.0 Anticipation and Planing Consideration ..................................................................... 12

3.0 Roles and Responsibilities .......................................................................................... 14

3.1 Central and Local Government and the Regional Departments .............................. 14

3.1.1. Mayor of the Municipality .............................................................................. 14

3.2 Government ............................................................................................................. 15

3.2.1 Ministry of Internal Affairs .............................................................................. 15

3.2.2 Minister of Internal Affairs .............................................................................. 15

3.2.4 State Prosecutor ................................................................................................ 15

3.2.5 Ministry for the Kosovo Security Force ........................................................... 16

3.2.6 Minister of the Kosovo Security Force ............................................................ 16

3.2.7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs .............................................................................. 16

3.2.8 Other Central Agencies .................................................................................... 16

3.2.9 Emergency Support Functions ......................................................................... 17

3.3 Non-Governmental and Volunteer Organizations................................................... 17

3.4 Private Sector .......................................................................................................... 18

3.5 Involvement of the Citizens .................................................................................... 20

4.0 Action Concept ............................................................................................................ 20

4.1 General .................................................................................................................... 20

4.2. General Coordination of Central Activities for Incident Management .................. 21

4.3. Organizational Structure ........................................................................................ 22

4.3.1 Principal Organizational Elelemts of the NRP ................................................. 25

4.3.2 Kosovo Security Council ................................................................................. 25

4.3.3 Committe for Coordination of Policies (CCP) ................................................. 25

4.3.4 Inter-institutional Group for Incident Management (IGIM) ............................ 25

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4.3.4 Head, Deputy, or the Appointee of the IGIM .................................................. 26

4.3.5 IGIM Structure ................................................................................................. 26

4.3.6 IGIM Executive Staff ...................................................................................... 26

4.3.7 IGIM Essential Group ...................................................................................... 26

4.3.8 Chart of the Essential IGIM Group .................................................................. 27

4.3.9 Experts of the Specific Areas ........................................................................... 27

4.3.10 IGIM Procedures ............................................................................................ 27

4.3.11 MIA Operations Centre .................................................................................. 28

4.3.11 Coordination of Response and Resources ...................................................... 28

4.3.12 Regional Cooperation ..................................................................................... 28

4.3.13 Joint Field Centre ........................................................................................... 29

4.3.14 Organizational Components of JFC ............................................................... 31

5.0 Incident Management Action ...................................................................................... 41

5.1 Actions .................................................................................................................... 41

5.2 Notification and Evaluation .................................................................................... 41

5.3 The Obligation to Report......................................................................................... 41

5.4 Warning and Bulletin Distribution .......................................................................... 43

5.5 Increasing Threats Identified on Central Level ....................................................... 44

5.6 Activation ................................................................................................................ 44

5.7 Headquarters Organizing Elements ......................................................................... 44

5.8 Regional Elements................................................................................................... 46

5.9 Field Elements ......................................................................................................... 46

5.10 The Requests for Assistance of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) ..................... 47

5.11 Pre-Incident Actions .............................................................................................. 48

5.12 Responsive Actions ............................................................................................... 49

5.13 Recovery Actions .................................................................................................. 50

5.14 Demobilization ...................................................................................................... 51

5.15 Remedial Actions .................................................................................................. 51

5.16 After Action Report ............................................................................................... 51

6.0 Management and Continuing Maintenance of the Plan .............................................. 52

6.1 Plan Maintenance .................................................................................................... 52

6.2 Emergency Management Institute of EMIS ............................................................ 53

6.3 NRP and National Preparedness ............................................................................. 53

6.4 Standards and supporting documents of NRP for other central plans..................... 54

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7.0 Appendixes .................................................................................................................. 55

7.1 Gllosary of Key Terms ............................................................................................ 55

7.2 Annex II................................................................................................................... 64

7.3 Annex III ................................................................................................................. 66

7.3.1 Authorities and references ................................................................................ 66

7.4 Annex IV ................................................................................................................. 67

7.5 Annex 5 ................................................................................................................... 71

7.6 Annexes of Emergency Support Functions (ESF) .................................................. 74

7.6.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 75

7.10 Annexes on Incidents .......................................................................................... 106

7.10.