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Regulatory references

The legal and technical framework behind cross-border wildfire prevention in the Karst — European directives, Italian and Slovenian law, and the standards the platform follows.

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This is a curated, public reference list maintained alongside the project. For binding legal text always consult the official gazettes (EUR-Lex, Gazzetta Ufficiale, Uradni list).

European Union

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Directive
EU Civil Protection Mechanism — Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Framework for cooperation in disaster prevention, preparedness and response, including cross-border wildfire assistance (rescEU).
2013 · consolidated · EUR-Lex 32013D1313
EUR-Lex ↗
Strategy
EU Forest Strategy for 2030
Sets out resilient, climate-adapted forest management — fuel reduction, monitoring and ecosystem-based adaptation relevant to Karst forestry.
COM(2021) 572 final
EUR-Lex ↗
Programme
Copernicus Emergency Management Service — EFFIS
European Forest Fire Information System: fire danger forecasts, active-fire detection and burned-area mapping used as a data baseline.
Copernicus EMS
Open ↗
Regulation
Interreg VI-A Italy–Slovenia Programme 2021–2027
The cooperation programme co-funding Karst Firewall 5.0 under Policy Objective 2 (a greener Europe), Specific Objective 4.
Project ITA-SI0600146
ita-slo.eu ↗

Italy

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Law
Legge quadro in materia di incendi boschivi — L. 353/2000
National framework law on forest fires: prevention, the regional AIB plan, the catasto incendi (burned-land register) and post-fire land-use constraints.
L. 21 novembre 2000, n. 353
G.U. ↗
Decree
Codice della Protezione Civile — D.lgs. 1/2018
Reorganises the national civil-protection service: roles, alerting and emergency management, including wildfire response coordination.
D.lgs. 2 gennaio 2018, n. 1
G.U. ↗
Regional
FVG L.R. 9/2007 — forests and forest landscapes
Friuli Venezia Giulia regional law governing forest management, fire prevention and the role of the Corpo Forestale Regionale.
Regione Autonoma FVG
RAFVG ↗
Plan
Piano Regionale AIB — Anti-Incendio Boschivo (FVG)
The regional wildfire-prevention plan: risk zoning, the fire-danger calendar, resources and the seasonal alert state.
updated periodically
RAFVG ↗

Slovenia

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Law
Zakon o gozdovih — Forests Act (ZG)
Slovenian law on forests and sustainable forest management, administered by Zavod za gozdove Slovenije (ZGS), including fire prevention duties.
Uradni list RS
Ur. list ↗
Law
Zakon o varstvu pred požarom — Fire Protection Act (ZVPoz)
Governs fire protection, prevention measures and the obligations of the fire-and-rescue service in the natural environment.
Uradni list RS
Ur. list ↗
Decree
Uredba o varstvu pred požarom v naravnem okolju
Decree on fire protection in the natural environment: very-high-danger declarations, open-burning bans and behaviour rules during fire season.
Vlada RS
Ur. list ↗
STD

Standards & data

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Method
Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System
The international fire-weather methodology that the Karst Fire Weather Index extends with local calibration and an ML ignition model.
Van Wagner, 1987
How KFWI works →
Standard
INSPIRE Directive — spatial data interoperability
EU framework for interoperable spatial data; informs the GeoJSON/OGC layer contracts the platform publishes for QGIS and partners.
Directive 2007/2/EC
EUR-Lex ↗
Alerting
MeteoAlarm / CAP — Common Alerting Protocol
The standardised severe-weather alerting format integrated into the platform for IT and SI warning feeds.
OASIS CAP 1.2
MeteoAlarm ↗