The EU Stockpiling Strategy integrates all existing sectorial stockpiling efforts, strengthens access to critical resources across the EU and combines centralised EU-level reserves with Member States’ contributions, supported by public-private partnerships to ensure efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
The EU Stockpiling Strategy includes the creation of an EU stockpiling network to share best practices and improve interoperability.
It proposes a strategic foresight and risk anticipation to identify critical supply needs in time.
Further, the EU Stockpiling Strategy foresees an EU-wide coordination to ensure coherence across national stockpiles.
It establishes targeted EU-level stockpiles to address key gaps, supported through mechanisms like rescEU. This would boost existing stocks of medical equipment, firefighting assets and energy related items like generators.
The strategy also covers enhanced transport and logistics for rapid distribution.
Finally, a solid stockpiling and supply chain involves also a stronger civil-military and public-private cooperation to leverage all capabilities.