COVID-19 European Union

COVID AGRICULTURE ACTION PLAN

Protocol of action against COVID-19 for Agricultural Holdings and Agri-food Industries: The Protocol includes a range of general and specific measures for workers, as well as additional information for contact management (provided by the Regional Ministry), coronavirus consultation telephone numbers for each Autonomous Community, performance standards for visits, internal personnel and contracts. More Info

Instructions for the application, implementation, management and control of crisis management operations and for the control of non-starting of investments included in amendments of the operational programmes carried out in the Region of Murcia, during the state of alarm established in Spain, to be carried out by fruits and vegetables producers organisations with main office in the Region of Murcia which have an operational fund, for operations carried out within the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and the Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007. More Info.

 

FOREST FIGHT DEFENSE UNIT TO SUPPORT, CLEANING AND DISINFECTION ACTIONS AGAINST THE ADVANCE OF COVID-19, ACTING IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT, HOSPITALS, AND NURSING HOMES, ETC.

“On Friday 13^th March, the government of the Region of Murcia activated its Territorial Plan for Civil Protection (PLATEMUR) at Level 1, for the whole region, by order of the Regional Ministry of Health, to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Among the measures adopted, on Thursday 19th the regional government decided to activate the deployment of the forest fire-fighting contingent of its Regional Ministry of Environment in support, cleaning and disinfection missions against the advance of the coronavirus COVID-19. On Friday 20th, in the city of Murcia, 16 units of the General Directorate of Natural Environment of the Region of Murcia, through its Forest Fire-Fighting Defence Unit, intervened in the surroundings of hospitals, bus stations, train and tram stations, nursing homes and other facilities considered a risk due to the influx of people.

The experience of this contingent in different types of emergencies has turned them into a very important shock force. They have been present in the relief and recovery work of the populations affected by the September DANA (an isolated depression at high levels) which caused serious floods in some towns in Murcia; they have worked on the plan against marine pollution, “which has given us experience and skill in the protocols of action, as well as personal safety in basic issues such as the setting and removal of the PPE and its decontamination,” says Manuel Páez, head of the Planning, Protected Areas and Defence of the Environment Service. They have even participated in the recovery from the Lorca earthquake.

The contingent, made up of technicians, environmental agents and forest brigades, was one of the first forest fire-fighting teams to be incorporated into the work of fighting the coronavirus. “From the first moment, in anticipation of our possible activation, we prepared the logistics and operational safety protocol for disinfecting contaminated areas. Every morning, before leaving for our mission, we give a briefing as it were a regular emergency, we establish objectives, remember protocols and organize the work,” says Páez.