This document summarizes a presentation given at the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference in 2012 about enhancing regional resilience to critical infrastructure disruptions through public-private partnerships in Lombardy, Italy. The presentation discusses how Lombardy developed a PPP program called PReSIC to collaborate with critical infrastructure operators on prevention, emergency response, and increasing overall security. The PPP aims to create trust for information sharing, use a voluntary framework, and give all stakeholders responsibility. Main results included increased knowledge of interdependencies and an emergency communication framework. The PPP contributes to increased regional resilience and more cost-efficient solutions to infrastructure disruptions.

1. + Sara BOUCHON
RGS Srl – Risk Governance Solutions
Enhancing Regional Resilience to Cope with Critical
Infrastructure Disruptions: the Public-Private Partnership
Experience in Lombardy Region, Italy
4th International Disaster and Risk Conference 2012
28th August 2012
Session TUE8.2: Public private partnership
approaches
Davos, Switzerland

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1. Why and How to develop a PPP to address
Critical infrastructure disruptions issues at
regional level?
2. What is the added value and limits of a PPP to
increase the security of citizens?
3. How does such a collaboration process
contribute to increase the territorial resilience and
improve the risk mitigation?
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Lombardy Region, Italy
 High concentration of Critical Infrastructures
systems, e.g.
 National and international railway lines (Corridors I and
 10.000.000 inhabitants V)
(16,4% national  3 international airports (Malpensa, Linate, Orio al Serio)
 National High voltage gridlines
population)
 Highly dependent on Critical Infrastructure
systems, e.g.:
 20, 4% of the national  Energy demand: 20,7% of nat. consumption
GDP  Airports passengers: 25% national traffic
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Background to the PReSIC Program (Regional
Program for Critical Infrastructure Protection)
 Past events (e.g. severe snowfall
in 2009, blackout in 2003)
 Regional Risk Assessment : high
number of CI systems are
exposed
 EU Directive 2008/114/EC on the
identification of European Critical
Infrastructures
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Objectives of PReSIC
1. Improve prevention, early detection and emergency
management practices of the regional Authorities to face CI
disruptions;
2. Increase the overall security and resilience level of the
Lombardy Region
3. Define and set up a collaboration process between Civil
protection Authorities and with CI operators based on
governance principles.
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Why a PPP to address CIP issues?
 Create a trustable environment to share information,
objectives, and common strategies with CI operators
 Develop a collaboration scheme on a voluntary basis and do
not add new legal requirements
 Develop a flexible framework, where each stakeholder
involved has a shared responsibility
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Main actors involved in the PPP
Road &
RAILWAYS
Highways
Trenord
ANAS S.p.A.
FNM
ASPI S.p.A.
TEB Civil Protection MTMS S.p.A.
Authorities from the
Lombardy Region
RGS S.r.l
AIRPORTS ENERGY
Politecnico di Milano
SACBO S.p.A. A2A S.p.A.
S.E.A. S.p.A. ENEL S.p.A.
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Implementation of the PPP
 14th December 2010 :
Institutional Protocol for
collaboration is signed by the
President of the Lombardy
Region and the CEO of 16
major CI operators
 Shared objectives to be
reached
 Working modalities
 Planning of the activities
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Main results of PReSIC
 Increased knowledge of
interdependencies of regional
Energy and Transportation
Systems
 Implementation of an
emergency Communication
Framework
Ferrovie
Trenord TEB SACBO SEA
 Development of a common RFI
Nord
approach to address CI Trenitalia SO RegLom
ALTRO
Prot Civ
Prefetto SNAM
disruption issues ATM
ALTRO
Energia
Forze
Serravalle 118 VVFF A2A Gas
Ordine
ALTRO
Trasporti
A2A
ANAS ASPI Terna ENEL
Elettricità
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Added value of the PPP
 Involvement of partners:
 Equal status Private Operators
Public Authorities can improve the
 Win-Win Situation
can improve business
 Pro-active the protection of continuity and
citizens customer
 Identification of common satisfaction
goals and strategies
 on a specific scenario (big
snowfall)
 increased coping capacities
also against other types of
events
 Basis to build regional
resilience
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Conclusions
 PPP contribute to increase regional resilience, hence to
contribute to disaster risk reduction
 Increased coping capacities to face CI disruptions but also other
types of emergencies
 Cost-efficient solution
 Further challenges
 Lombardy: expand to other CI operators, consider new scenarios
 Raise awareness of local-regional Authorities and private
stakeholders
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Thank you for Risk Governance
Solutions S.r.l.
Critical Infrastructure
Resilience Unit
Critical Infrastructure
Protection Programme
the 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
REGIONAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
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