Civil Protection Organisational and Procedural Interoperability Profile

Abstract

Paper presents the results of the results of the C2-SENSE activities in project’s Work Package Organisational Interoperability, where we provided template for writing of the Organisational Interoperability Profiles (OIPs) as well as the framework for assessing the existing organisational agreements that is aligned with this template and tested by analysing several existing agreements. OIPs cover Aligned Operations and Procedures and Harmonized Strategy/Doctrines layers of the interoperability stack. These layers address the cooperation among organisations at procedural or operational level.

C2-SENSE Organisational Interoperability Profile template enables any organisation involved in the crisis management to prepare and write new inter-organisation agreements, which describe the nature of cooperation in everyday operations among them. The template is aligned with relevant international standards recommendations and applicable to all types and sizes of organisations that wish to prepare, maintain or improve their inter-organisation partnering agreement and demonstrate conformity to other organisation, when arranging the initial dialogue with potential partners.

The standards used in preparing the C2-SENSE OIPs address the organisational structures and internal procedures of the involved parties. Resulting OIPs, therefore, ensure a degree of interoperability among organisations in planning, establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining operations, even in the situation, when their organisations structures or internal procedures are different. This can help emergency organisations to recognize and resolve their cross-organisational interoperability issues.