 We need a new model of civil protection based on regional policy, which stresses prevention and the decentralization of responsibilities with the aim of urgent and immediate crisis management. Commissioner, we have a problem because most natural disasters don't have borders. Consequently cross-border cooperation becomes essential to prevent them and to respond effectively when they do occur. And in this sense, a revision of the regulation on the use of the European Union's Re-diety Fund is highly desiderable, because climate change has meant that today's episodes of natural disasters are more frequent than in the past.