Translation of "operations and coordination unit " (English → French) :

the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of logistics operations, through coordination units at European level.

7. The Union shall ensure that its humanitarian aid operations are coordinated and consistent with those of international organisations and bodies, in particular those forming part of the United Nations system.

The Commission has started to work on the enhancement of its crisis-management tools, such as a situation-awareness platforms for decision makers known as HEDIS (Health Emergency and Diseases Information System) and its existing Early Warning and Response System; The Commission has set up its interdepartmental crisis coordination unit which would become operational in the event of a crisis such as a pandemic; Commissioner Kyprianou is liaising between Member States and the pharmaceutical industry on questions relating to the production, distribution and ...[+++] supply of antivirals and vaccines; Following the informal Health Council meeting in Vienna on February 24 , the Commission and ECDC are now coordinating a network of Member States’ press officers, in order to ensure the communication of clear and accurate messages to the public throughout Europe; Pandemic preparedness plans will be reviewed again at a meeting of the Commission, Member States and WHO hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm on 3 May and follow-up by Member States of lessons learned during the exercise will be discussed in June; Workshops to share best practice on issues such as public health interventions, business continuity planning, border controls and quarantine will be held; The Commission will start improving the coordination mechanism through training and role play between involved bodies and plans to run further exercises.

| | Naples II Convention | Initiated by Member States. |To help national customs authorities prevent and detect infringements of national customs provisions and to help them prosecute and punish infringements of Community and national customs provisions. |Decentralised, operating through a set of central coordinating units. |All information relating to an identified or identifiable person. |Central coordinating units forward data to national customs authorities, investigative authorities and judicial bodies and, subject to the prior c ...[+++]onsent of the Member State supplying the data, to other authorities.

TACIS Coordinating Units : the role of coordinating units and their scope of responsibility within the TACIS programme should be further clarified in order to strengthen their operational effectiveness.

In the case of the food aid operation for 204 Mio ECU, which was financed with funds from the EAGGF (165 Mio ECU), ECHO (35 Mio ECU) and TACIS (4 Mio ECU) and was intended to enable the people of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzistan, Tajikistan and Moldavia to cover part of the shortfall in food supplies during the winter of 1994-1995, the aid distribution did not take sufficient account of the needs of the various beneficiary States and the Commission did not take advantage of the opportunity to develop a coordinated approach for the various instruments; the TACIS coordination ...[+++] units in the countries concerned were thus unable to cooperate in the aid action or to assist in the development of a programme for the use of the counterpart funds provided by this operation.