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This Law shall regulate disaster risk reduction, prevention and strengthening of resilience and readiness of individuals and communities to react to the consequences of disasters, protection and rescue of people, material, cultural and other assets, rights and obligations of citizens, associations, legal entities, local self-government units authorities, autonomous provinces and the Republic of Serbia, management of emergency situations, functioning of civil protection, early warning, notification and alerting, international cooperation, inspection supervision and other issues of importance for the organization and functioning of the disaster risk reduction and emergency management system.

The disaster risk reduction and emergency management system is of particular interest to the Republic of Serbia and is part of the national security system.

Certain terms used in this Law shall have the following meaning:

1) a disaster is a natural calamity or a technical and technological accident, the consequences of which threaten the safety, life and health of a greater number of people, material and cultural goods or the environment on a larger scale, and the occurrence or consequences of which cannot be prevented or eliminated by the regular action of the competent authorities and services;

2) a natural disaster is an occurrence of hydrological, meteorological, geological or biological origin, caused by the action of natural forces such as an earthquake, flood, torrent, storm, heavy rain, atmospheric discharges, hail, drought, landslides or land slippage, snow drifts and avalanches, extreme air temperatures, accumulation of ice on watercourses, pandemics, epidemics of infectious diseases, epidemics of livestock infectious diseases and the appearance of pests and other large-scale natural phenomena that may threaten the safety, life and health of a greater number of people, material and cultural goods or the environment on a larger scale;

3) a technical and technological accident is a sudden and uncontrolled event or a series of events that got out of control during the management of certain means of work and during the handling of hazardous substances in production, use, transport, traffic, processing, storage and disposal, such as fire, explosion, accident, traffic accident in road, river, railway and air traffic, accident in mines and tunnels, stoppage of cable cars for transporting people, collapse of dams, accidents at power, oil and gas plants, accidents when handling radioactive and nuclear materials, severe soil, water and air pollution, the consequences of war destruction and terrorism, and the consequences of which may threaten the safety, life and health of a greater number of people, material and cultural goods or the environment on a larger scale;

4) disaster risk reduction is a policy that is established and conducted with the aim of preventing new and reducing existing risks through the implementation of integrated and inclusive economic, social, educational, normative, health, cultural, technological, political and institutional measures that strengthen the community resilience and preparedness for response and mitigation of the consequences of the resulting disasters thereby strengthening the community resilience;

5) risk management is a set of measures and activities that are carried out in order to implement the disaster risk reduction policy as well as administrative and operational and organizational skills and capacities for their implementation;

6) entities of special importance for protection and rescue are companies and other legal entities that perform business and dispose of resources of particular importance for protection and rescue, and that have been declared entities of special importance by the appropriate decision of the competent authority;

7) a state of emergency is a state that is created by a declaration by a competent authority when the risks and threats or the resulting consequences for the population, the environment and material and cultural assets are of such a scale and intensity that their occurrence or consequences cannot be prevented or eliminated by the regular action of the competent authorities and services, which is why it is necessary to use special measures, forces and means for their mitigation and elimination with an enhanced work regime;

8) management of emergency situations includes coordination and management of entities and forces of the protection and rescue system with the aim of organized response to disasters and rapid recovery;

9) resilience is the ability of a community exposed to hazards to respond to them and recover from the consequences of disasters in a timely and efficient manner, which includes the preservation and restoration of basic functions;

10) danger is a potentially harmful physical event, phenomenon or human activity that may cause endangerment of human life and health, damage to material and cultural assets and the environment, or social and economic disturbances;

11) immediate danger is a situation in which there is a serious threat to the life and health of people, material and cultural goods or the environment and has the characteristics of certainty. Immediate danger shall be announced by the authority competent for the corresponding danger and shall usually precede the declaration of an emergency;

12) risk means the combination of the probability that a disaster is to occur in a certain period of time and with certain negative consequences;

13) risk assessment is the determination of the nature and degree of risk of potential danger, state of danger and consequences that may threaten the life and health of people, the environment and material and cultural assets;

14) prevention includes a set of measures and activities for mitigating existing risks as well as reducing the risk of new consequences of the disaster;

15) explosive remnants of war (hereinafter: ERW) are explosive devices and unexploded ordnance, with or without an igniter, prepared for use or used, i.e. fired, launched, ejected, started or placed, and have not performed their function, i.e. unexploded, abandoned ordnance left behind or thrown away and assets left behind after the explosion of a storage of ordnance, i.e. in the process of production of ordnance;

16) an emergency event is an accident caused by the effect of a disaster that may threaten the life and health of people, material and cultural goods and the environment, and the consequences of which may be prevented or eliminated by the regular action of the competent authority or services;

17) exposure means the susceptibility of people, the environment, material and cultural assets to potential losses;

18) vulnerability means the characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or its value, which make it sensitive to the consequences of danger;

19) preparedness implies knowledge and capacities that are developed for effective response and recovery from disasters;

20) mitigating the consequences is reducing or limiting the adverse impacts or consequences of disasters caused by the loss of life and health of people, physical and mental pain, fear or loss, disappearance, reduction of property, or prevention of an increase in its value, in the area threatened by the disaster;

21) risk treatment is a way of dealing with identified, very high and high risk, in the sense of determining activities for undertaking preventive measures to reduce risk, i.e. preparation for readiness and training of forces and entities to react in protection and rescue from a certain danger and is undertaken on the basis of disaster risk assessment.

22) SEVESO complex means a spatial entity under the control of the operator where hazardous substances are present in one or more facilities in equal or greater quantities than prescribed in terms of production, use, storage or handling of hazardous substances, in accordance with the regulations governing environmental protection;

23) an accident is an event such as an emission, fire or explosion occurring as a result of an uncontrolled development of events during the operation of a company and another legal entity leading to a serious danger to human health and the environment, immediately or delayed, inside or outside the company and of another legal entity, and that includes one or several dangerous substances;

24) a major accident means an accident in accordance with the regulations governing environmental protection;

25) the interested public is the public that is affected or may be affected by the decision of the competent authority or that has an interest in it and is more closely defined in the regulations governing environmental protection.

All terms in this Law denoting occupations, positions, i.e. appointments, expressed in the grammatical masculine gender, shall imply the natural masculine and feminine genders of the persons to whom they refer.

Disaster risk reduction and emergency management shall be a national and local priority.

Everyone shall have the right to be protected from the consequences of disasters without any discrimination, and the protection and saving of human lives shall have priority over all other protection and rescue activities.