Translation of "table top exercise " (English → French) :

The project Table Top Exercises is a follow-up and builds on the lessons learnt from the Table Top exercise (TTX) held in August 2013 in Indonesia (funded under Decision 2012/166/CFSP).

An EU-US table top exercise was carried out in November 2011 ("Cyber Atlantic 2011"). Further exercises are planned for the coming years, including with international partners.

It should be built on: (a) draft document ‘SOPs for the HSC Network for the risk assessment and risk management of chemical events’ prepared by the Commission with input from the Chemical, Biological and Radio Nuclear (CBRN) Section of the Health Security Committee (HSC) and which is available as part of the outcomes of the CARRA-NET initiative; (b) input provided by the ‘Chemical and Radiation Risk Assessment Network (CARRA-NET)’ project that started in October 2010 under service contract No EAHC/2010/Health/12 for the implementation of framework contract No EAHC/2009/Health/06 Lot 2 concerning multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition on external assistance concerning activities in the area of health security ‘For establ ...[+++]ishing risk assessment networks of toxic industrial chemicals and radioactive threats and risks’ — the tender was awarded to the Health Protection Agency and the results will pave the way for establishing future networks for chemicals and radioactive threats; (c) lessons learnt from the three regional table top ‘IRIDIUM’ exercises on chemical events implemented in 2011 — the three exercises have been implemented under the specific subject ‘Chemical exercises’ under the framework contract No SANCO/C3-2007-01 (8); and (d) input provided by the initiative ‘Chemical and Radiological Inventory of Medical Countermeasures (CARIMEC)’ that was launched in December 2010 under service contract No EAHC/2010/Health/17 for the implementation of framework contract No EAHC/2009/Health/06 Lot 2 concerning multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition on external assistance concerning activities in the area of health security ‘For establishing an inventory of public health measures and medical countermeasures to respond to toxic industrial chemicals and radioactive threats and risks’. The CARIMEC initiative is carried out by the Health Protection Agency.

The five targeted deliverables are case-studies, table-top exercises, command-post exercises, filed exercises and trainings, all with specific focus on risk management in the field of new and emerging health threats, such as chemical, biological and radionuclear threats, pandemics or communicable diseases.

The emergency plan shall define how all organisations involved can be familiarised with the infrastructure and how often visits to the tunnel and table top or other exercises have to take place.

—may also, in part, be conducted as table-top or computer simulation exercises for complementary results.