European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 07-08-28

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CONTENTS / CONTENU

[01] European Forest Fire Information System: latest figures for forest fires in Greece

[02] Greek fires: further offers of suport

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MIDDAY EXPRESS

News from the Communication Directorate General's midday briefing

Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi de la Direction Générale Communicationb

28/08/07

[01] European Forest Fire Information System: latest figures for forest fires in Greece

This information comes from the EFFIS Rapid Damage Assessment and Fire Danger Systems and Fire Weather Index, managed by the European Commission's in-house scientific service, the Joint Research Centre.

http://effis.jrc.it

Satellite pictures depicting the fire damage and graphs with fire forecasts up to 30 August are available from <a href="mailto:Antonia.Mochan@ec.europa.eu">Antonia.Mochan@ec.europa.eu

[02] Greek fires: further offers of suport

Greece has accepted an offer from Spain to provide 2 more Canadairs, bringing the overall total being provided from Europe to 10 Canadairs. Of these, 7 (from France, Italy and Spain) have been deployed since the weekend; and 1 from Portugal arrived yesterday. In addition, Austria has offered 3 Platus Porter DC aircraft. As regards helicopters, Sweden has offered a further two helicopters. In addition, the Czech Republic has offered a Bell 412, Finland has offered 3 helicopters and Romania a type MI- 17. These would be in addition to the 10 helicopters already accepted and which continue to arrive.

Cyprus has provided 6 fire-fighting engines and 60 forest fire-fighters. Poland has offered 30 fire fighters and 50 hoses. Finland has also offered to provide a platoon of fire-fighters and Sweden has offered fire-fighting equipment.

This brings the total number of members of the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection making offers of assistance to date to 15.

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Development Potentials".

Slovenia – Operational programme 2007-2013: ""Development of environment

and transport infrastructure ". From EUROPA, the European Commission Server at http://europa.eu.int/

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